7868

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7868
• Author: Kidd, G. T.
• Title: Endangered Fish Of The Upper Colorado River, Observations From 1970 Through 1995.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

responsibilities included spawn taking for Kokanee salmon, walleye, and northern pike and
conducting fish salvage operations. He provided expertise for stream improvements including
Clear Creek, near Denver, and Fish Creek, near Durango.
From 1970 through 1975 Mr. Kidd was stationed in Grand Junction, Colorado. He was
responsible for the Kokanee salmon spawn taking program and stream and river fish inventory
work on the Colorado and Gunnison Rivers. He was the CDOW representative on the task force
for threatened and endangered (T&E) fish in western Colorado. Mr. Kidd was instrumental in
the discovery of humpback chubs at Black Rocks in Ruby Canyon of the Colorado River (Kidd,
1974). He captured some of the first Colorado squawfish for the captive broodstock program at
the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Willow Beach National Fish Hatchery, Nevada.
Since 1975 Mr. Kidd has been the Principal Fish Biologist of his own company, Northwest
Fisheries, Inc. He has performed numerous threatened and endangered (T&E) filth investigations.
This includes studies for the US Bureau of Reclamation (Kidd, 1977), USFWS, CDOW, and
various private interests. His experience includes extensive time devoted to capturing and
collecting specimens from the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers as well as the various irrigation
canal -systems m the= Valley.
The remainder of this document consists of Mr. Kidd,s personal observations and opinions, which
are based on his experiences and personal records. Complete records of these observations are
not available. Much of the original CDOW data were apparently lost from the state computer files
in 1975, and the field sheets were apparently discarded when the data were computerized.
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