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1 i t 1 1 i 1 t 1 1 t t u 1 1 1 Rado golf course in Grand Junction. This pond was chosen because it was secure from unauthorized access and it could be easily seined. Each week we seined the squawfish from the pond, weighed them and made observations on the external signs of their reproductive development. When the pond temperatures rose to 20 C and the males were producing milt that could be easily expressed when external pressure was applied, we anticipated that the female fish too would be in near-ripe condition. We injected the females with an extract of carp pituitary on 14-15 July to induce ovula- tion. As later discussed in Results, captive female brood fish failed to fully ripen in the pond; thus we were unable to obtain eggs from wild fish during this initial attempt. In fall 1986 we made another attempt at holding wild squawfish for use as brood stock, this time in a controlled environment. Six adult squawfish were captured from the White River downstream from Kenney Reservoir by Colorado Division of Wildlife person- nel, and were transported to Hotchkiss National Fish Hatchery (NFH). They were held there in three enclosed, circular tanks and fed young rainbow trout. Because we were unable to obtain fry from captive squawfish in summer 1986, we stocked hatchery-produced young in the rearing ponds that we had prepared. These were hatched at Dexter NFH in June 1986 and reared at Willow Beach NFH. On 28 August, the squawfish were transported from Willow Beach to the ponds in a distribution tank equipped with bottled oxygen and a water circulation system. Tank temperature was 16 C upon arrival, so pond water (24 C) was added until the tank temperature reached 21 C. Approximately 7,000 squawfish (28-61 mm long) were stocked into 4