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<br />In 1982, five squawfish were tagged and released within the 15-mile reach <br />(Fig. 3). One fish (designated E on Fig. 3) disappeared shortly after <br />release, one (D) stayed within the reach through July, and two others (A <br />and B) stayed through August. Another (C) remained in the reach from June <br />through September, then moved a few miles downstream from the reach in <br />October. Six fish (F, G, H, I, J and K) tagged elsewhere moved into the <br />15-mile reach for at least a brief period. One of these fish (H) had been <br />tagged in upper Lake Powell in April; it moved 198 miles to the 15-mile <br />reach by late September, where it remained at least through October. <br />In 1983, one squawfish tagged at Black Rocks the previous fall moved 47 <br />miles upstream to a site within the reach at the end of July (Fig. 4); <br />however, contact was lost one week later. <br /> Four squawfish tagged in lower reaches during 1985 subsequently moved into <br /> the 15-mile reach (Fig. 5). One fish (A) moved there from RM 58.3 to RM <br /> 178.3 during July and August, a distance of 120 river miles. The remain- <br /> ing fish (B, C and D) were tagged 7-10 miles below the reach in May. One <br /> <br /> of these (D) moved in and out of the lower Gunnison River on three sepa- <br />rate occasions. All four fish moved back out of the reach between late <br />July and early September. <br />In 1986, six <br />squawfish and two razorback suckers from the 15-mile reach <br />were radio-tagged. Contact was lost with one squawfish and one razorback <br />almost immediately. Two squawfish moved into the Gunnison River during <br />June (Fig. 6). One of these (A) later lost its tag and the other (F) <br />returned to the area of release in late July, where it remained until at <br />least May of the following year. This fish (F) was next located near the <br />Walker Wildlife Area (WWA, RM 163.7) of the downstream 18-mile reach on 25 <br />13 <br />