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<br />However, the endangered status of Colorado squawfish warrants close attention by <br />management agencies to potential angling mortality problems. Elimination, reduction, or <br />strict regulation of stocking of nonnative fishes were the most common management options <br />proposed to cope with negative impacts on native fishes. The combination of habitat <br />management and flow manipulation was the next most cited management option considered <br />feasible. <br /> <br />Many respondents expressed a general comfort with their agency internal <br />communication process.' As a consequence of legal mandate and recovery programs, <br />communication within agencies between sportfish and nongame sections has been improved. <br />Increasing communication between agencies, biologists, and administrators prior to decision <br />making may be the best means of resolving conflicts between nongame and gamefish <br />management concerns. There was consensus that problems related to introduced fishes are <br />increased in severity by concomitant impacts to the habitat of native fishes. Habitat changes, <br />primarily flow related, were considered a primary problem of greater magnitude than <br />introduced fishes. Some form of habitat manipulation was considered the most likely <br />alternative for maintaining native-fish populations in the face of chronic impacts from <br />introduced fishes. Less than half of the respondents felt that either control of nonnative <br />fishes or augmentation of endangered fishes were viable management alternatives. <br /> <br />If results or interpretations reported here are at significant odds with perceptions of <br />the various agencies and participant groups in the recovery program for Colorado River <br />endangered fishes, further refinement of the issue and consensus opinion through a more <br />rigorous Delphi approach may be a useful next step in providing guidance to the Recovery <br />Implementation Program Biology Committee in managing nonnative fish impact issues. <br /> <br />Vlll <br />