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<br />M <br />, <br />('I <br /> <br />III <br />CJ <br /><( <br />0. <br /> <br />"- <br />('I <br />OJ <br />OJ <br />"- <br />... <br />('I <br />lSI <br />"- <br />OJ <br />C <br />~ <br /> <br />b \,\ ~ 'C) ~('('Al cL <br />~lAly Q,d..,j \qt\~ <br />~'.L <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />~~ishkill sets back squaWfish recovery, possibly water de <br /> <br />II! I Bret Bel <br />': ,laid SIaIf Wrl1er <br />:0: <br />o <br />0: Early this month biologisU acd, <br />110 ,ntally kined nearly the entire <br />~ :ar's allotment of hatcheT}'raised <br />. olorado squawflSh des1ined for <br />~ Ie San Juan RNer, setting back a <br />OJ ,deral program aimed :It restoring <br />OJ n endangered species that has <br />~ e\d up water development <br /><;' ,(oughoulthe Foor Comers. <br />5 A.\ a ,'esull, only 10.500 of the <br />,>.,. <br /> <br />young squawflSb were introduced <br />into the m'Cr for the year - a frac- <br />tion of what officials expected 10 <br />stock and less tban one.tenth of <br />what they had introduced eaeh of <br />tbe past two years. <br />Officials im'OI\'ed with lhe reCO\' <br />ery of the rare fish caned ;t a <br />'major loss" to a Pre\'ousIy succes&- <br />ful program. <br />Thel estimated hetween .w,OOO <br />and 70,000 of the juveniles died at <br />the nexter, N,}d., National Fish <br /> <br /> <br />$quawflsh <br /> <br />Hatchery while bioll>gislS were try- <br />ing to mark them for research pur. <br />poses earlier this month. Another <br /> <br />COUIlJESY DIVISION OF-WIlDLIfE <br /> <br />20,000 perished while being lrans.. <br />paned to a stretch of the ri_ in <br />Utah for stotking, said Roger Ham- <br /> <br />man, assistant director of the <br />hatchery located near Roswell, <br />N.M. <br /> <br />The fouJ.up was fodder for pro- <br />ponents of the Animas.La Plata <br />wa\e1" project, who watched in 1990 <br />as a U.s. FISh and Wildlife discovery <br />of Z1 squawflSh in the San Juan <br />'hailed the JlI"'!ieds construction <br />just as tbe ground-brealting -cere- <br />mony was about to occur. <br />The next year, FISh and Wildlif( <br />oflkials issued a biological opinio. <br />