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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 4000
• Author: U.S. Department of the Interior.
• Title: Report on Water For Energy in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1974.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 3

Inventory of Fishable t.laters Existinp, in 1965

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Upper Colorado Re~jon

Itefl1

Coldwater
Arizona
Colorado
He'll' Hexico 1/
Utah
Wyoming
Subtotals

Harrnwater
..--
Arizona
Colorado
~ew Hexico 1/
Utah Y
Hyoming
Sub to tals

Totals

Streams
(miles)

Na tural lakes
(acres)

Impoundments
(acres)

1<'arm ponds
(acres)

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17 n 1,200 Insil'.
4,715 11,209 33 , 54 !3 6l~
87 0 15,857 53
1,344 8,988 37,822 160
~1,527 1 7 , If!}2-. _ 56,238_ 24
7,690 37,633 144,665 855
0 0 11,1*35 Insig.
660 0 916 n
40 () 1,200
706 0 153,850 38
Insir,. 0 0 0
1,406 0 167,451 38
9,096 37,683 312,lHi 893
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1/ ;~ew 1Jexico waters tend to be intermediate and may support a mixed
c01dwater and warm\-1ater fishery. IJarmwaters in Ptatl are similar.
'!anagement for \-Jarmwater fisheries often is in response to turbidity
rather than high temperatures.

Ta b Ie 4

~~n-days of Sport Fishing in 1965

Upper Colorado Region
(l,OOO's of man-days)

State

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Streams

llatural lakes

Impoundments

Farm ponds

Totals

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Ar izona 4.2 () 27.f1
Colorado 1/ 1,225.6 174.0 If90:S
New Hexico 52.9 0 317 . 3
Utah 129.3 250.8 657.5
Wyoming 73.9 16.5 117.5
To ta 1 s 1:485.9 If 41. 3 1,610.6

~ 32.0
6.3 1,896.4
0.5 370.7
2.1 1,039.7
0.3 20R.2
9.2 3,547.0

H Less than 50 man-days.
!/ Estimates by BurA;lu of Sport Fisheries and Hild1He.

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