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<br />-, -\. <br /> <br />---- ----- ~........ ..........,,"...VV.l. <br /> <br />U.:tDK Y\''''n.V!'UJ <br /> <br />[)~ <br /> <br />~. ~ <br />- <br /> <br />Squawfish .,~ <br /> <br />, "1 <br /> <br />'at ~~~hery; <br />killed off:' I: <br /> <br />By 11IE ASSOCIATED PRESS <br />. .I 'I <br />DURANGO - Most of the " <br />hatchery.raised squawflSh des. , <br />tined for a recovery program in''! <br />the San Juan River were acclden. <br />tally killed. an official said. ' <br />A5 a result, only about 10,500 of \ <br />the endangered fl,sh were intrG' I <br />duced into the river this year, com. ,; <br />pared with 114,500 in 1996 and l' <br />117,000 in 1997, authorities said. ' ,(~ <br />Recovery of the squawtlsh haS ,I <br />been one of the maJor holdUps in '.. <br />launching the AniJm.s.La Plata Wl!:;1' <br />ter project. The fish are raised lit ., <br />the National Fish Hatchery at Dell' " <br />tsr,N.M. ' <br />Rocer HaIIU1tlIn. assistant direc- ~ <br />tor of the hatchery, said lIIost of - <br />the!isb died while biOlogists were ',' <br />trying to Il1ark them with tetracy:'" <br />,cline, an antibiotic that staills the l <br />"skeletons of the t1sh and allows bi- :'~ <br />; ologists to track !hemin the wild. '~l( , <br />Another 20,000 of the young fish ' <br />died en rol1te to a stretch of the <br />San J1Ill11 in Utah, where the reo <br />,stocking begins, IiamII1lID sald. t :;; <br />.- In all three years of the restock--; <br />ing progralll, the young !ish are <br />put in a bath of tetracycline at th\.. <br />, .hatchery b!lfore being 'shippe~ OU~,~: <br />for restockmg. ,,:;,.! <br />, Hamman said there are casual. : <br />,ties each year in ilie riiarking Pl"O:, ' <br />cess, though never jjke',this year, -:: , <br />'. . ~ <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />'f!:Iv...... <br /> <br />RECEIVED <br />JUl 2" 1998 <br /> <br />Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board <br /> <br />7-23'- 99 <br /> <br /> --- <br /> j .. 0 <br /> ~ '" ~ <br /> ~ )0 p <br /> )( ~ <br /> .., !< <br /> :1J IS <br /> )0 l' <br /> .... Z ~ <br /> ~o; (/I <br /> i: <br /> g - <br /> .., <br /> f 1 -I <br /> ~ )> <br /> " .. " ,. <br /> m . <br /> z ..~ <br />W <br />III 0 <br />'" ::s <br />B ~ <br />i <br />i <br />i <br />i <br /> '+ <br /> <br /> <br />