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I I I I I I ,I I I I I I I I I I I I I serious and consistent violations of the flow during the nonirrigation season. Although the FWS did monitor the status of the project in 1971, the monitoring resulted in a positive change for less than two years, and the project operators wer~ not penalized for violations. Interestingly, the month the FWS follow-up study was published, the monthly average flow dropped below the agreed-to flow and remained there fOr six months. Again in 1974, the operator viola~ed the agreement and again agreed to abide by it. Because of the above circumstances, the state fish and wildlife agency found it necessary to stock fingerling and legal-sized trout to maintain a fishery. This is a costly procedure which would not have been needed had the original FWS recommendation been implemented. Monitoring by fish and wildlife interests, although irregular, aided the imp1 ementati on of the recommended f1 ow, but only for short interval s. Fi sh and wildlife interests were compelled to resort to lengthy and cumbersome pro- cedures, such as presenting the dam operator with substantive findings or working through members of the sponsori ng agency, in order to convince the dam operator to' release the accepted flow recommendation. No other means were available to persuade the operator to adhere to the recommendation. The effectiveness of imp1ementated measures is another test of FWCA success. Such measures include both those accepted by the sponsoring agen- cies as recommended by the fish and wildlife agencies and those modified before acceptance and implementation. Although a number of approaches could be followed, in a study for the Fish and Wildlife Service (8) the effective- ness of measures was evaluated on the basis of how well the measure achieved its intended purpose. Each application of a measure was classified as success- ful, marginally successful, or unsuccessful. If an 'indiVidua1 measure appar- ently accomplished a major proportion of its intended purpose, it was classified as successful. If only a moderate part of its intended purpose was attained, it 20