9442

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9442
• Author: Muth, R. T. and T. E. Czapla.
• Title: Workshop Summary
• USFW Year: 2002.
• USFW - Doc Type: Designing Methods to Evaluate Stocked Fish in the Upper Colorado River, Green River, and San Juan River Subbasins.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 11

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS-ATTENDEES' ......................................... iii

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS-PRESENTERS. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv

LIST OF TABLES. ....... . ..... .... ........ ....... . . .. . .. ... . . .. ..... . ... " . . vi

LIST OF FIGURES .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. vii

1.0 INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.1 Background. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.2 Purpose and Objectives of Workshop .................................. 1
1.3 Organization of Workshop Summary ..................................2

2.0 DEMOGRAPHIC RECOVERY CRITERIA IN THE RECOVERY GOALS. . . . . . . . .2

3.0 OVERVIEW OF STOCKING PLANS....................................... 5
3.1 State of Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2 State of Utah ..................................................... 7
3.3 San Juan Program .................................................7
3.4 Discussion - Revisions to Stocking Plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
3.5 Recommendation Regarding Stocking Plans. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.0 MONITORING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.1 Monitoring and Evaluating of Various Sizes of Domestic-reared Razorback
Sucker Stocked in the Upper Colorado and Gunnison Rivers: 1995-2001 . . . . . 11
4.2 Status of Wild Razorback Sucker in the Green River Basin, Utah and Colorado,
Determined from Basinwide Monitoring and Other Sampling Programs . . . . . . 14
4.3 Stocking and Monitoring Hatchery-reared Bony tail in the Colorado and Green
Rivers, 1996-2001 .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4 San Juan River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.5 Conclusions from Recap of First Day Regarding Monitoring Reports. . . . . . . . 20
4.6 Draft Plan to Monitor Stocked Fish (UCRRP). . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
4.7 Discussion-What population parameters need to be monitored .............21
4.8 Discussion~esign of Monitoring Approach and Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.9 Recommended Design of Monitoring Approach and Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

5.0 LITERATURE REFERENCED.....................,..................... 24

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