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t freighted to Grand Junction on 20 May 1986. Because of airline error, the fish arrived late and about half were dead; 234 survivors (65-135 mm long) were stocked into a small pond (13th-Hole Pond) on the Tiara Rado golf course. The pond had a good population of fathead minnows. Three hauls 1 with a 76 x 2.4-m, 3 x 5-mm-mesh bag seine were used to periodically collect samples of the stocked squawfish for growth measurements and to ' estimate survival rates. Water temperature was measured at the time of each collection. In spring 1987, Humphrey Pond was leased from a landowner in Clifton, Colorado, about 15 miles east of the other two ponds. It has a surface area of 5.4 ha, is 1.4-2.0 m deep, and contained an assortment of fish species includin commo h h h b Mi l fi l g n carp, c anne cat , argemout ass ( cropt- s etas salmoides), green sunfish (Lepomis cpanellus), black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus), white and flannelmouth sucker (Catostomas commersoni and C. latipinnis), and fathead minnow. In mid May, we treated the pond with rotenone to remove these fish. In early June the pond was fertilized, inoculated with zooplankton, and stocked with 185 fathead minnows that we ( obtained from West Pond. On 11 June, approximately 50,000 Colorado squawfish swim-up fry (6-8 mm long) were air-freighted to Grand Junction from Dexter NFH and stocked into Humphrey Pond. On 17 June, 430 fingerling (44-76 mm long) razorback sucker, approximately 16 wk old, were air-freighted from Dexter NFH and ' stocked into Humphrey Pond. Twenty of these were held in a live-cage for five days to quantify stress-related mortality that might have resulted ' from shipment and stocking; all survived the 5-day period and were I subsequently released. 1 6