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UCREFRP Catalog Number
7751
Author
Quartarone, F.
Title
Historical Accounts of Upper Colorado River Basin Endangered Fish.
USFW Year
1993.
USFW - Doc Type
Denver, CO.
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<br />Historical <br />accounts of <br />upper basin <br />endangered <br />fish <br /> <br />18 <br /> <br /> <br />the heads from them if they <br />were going to throw them away. <br />He would trim the gills, eyes <br />and everything out of the head <br />and bake it. It had 2 or 3 pounds <br />of white meat without any <br />bones at all. That was always <br />quite interesting to me that he <br />did that." <br />While Colorado squawfish <br />were usually consumed fresh, <br />Kenneth Bailey (Hayden, Colo.) <br />said some fish were just too big <br />to eat that way. <br />"Down there in the lower <br />(Yampa River) country, those <br />people that caught these bigger <br />fish, most of them was so big <br />you wouldn't eat them only a <br />meal or two of them, and then <br />you'd can the rest of them," <br />Bailey said. "Those whitefish <br />after they were canned was <br />almost like eating salmon." <br />Norma Simper (Vernal, <br />Utah) remembered cutting <br />steaks from Colorado squaw- <br />fish. <br />"... I know the steaks <br />through them are about 18 inch- <br />es. That makes about a 20-inch steak if you fillet it out flat," she said. "... the <br />whitefish that comes out of the Green River is top eating and the catfish is mar- <br />velous." <br /> <br />Photo courtesy of Dale Stewart <br />TABLE FARE: Colorado squawflsh <br />were appreciated for their food <br />value by many seniors. These fish <br />were caught In the Green River. <br /> <br />Use of other endangered fish <br />Although upper basin residents ate other endangered fish, many said they <br />were bony. <br />"I know those bonetails (referring to all chubs) aren't (edible) because I <br />tried to eat one when I was a kid, and they're absolutely sickening. There's <br />about 2 million bones in each of them," Tim Merchant (Green River, Wyo.) said. <br />Wanda Staley's (Vernal, Utah) family seined the Green River in Island Park <br />during the 1920s and 1930s to gather fish for subsistence. She recalls culling <br />chubs (probably including humpback chubs) from the net. <br />"Oh, there was some of the trash fish that was too bony and we'd throw <br />'em back in," she said. <br />It took the Depression to get Carl Williams' (Green River, Wyo.) family to <br />eat the purported overly-bony chubs found in the Green River. <br />"We ate everything, except them bony tail; we ate suckers," he said. "Of <br />course during the Depression we ate everything." <br />
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