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<br />VI <br /> <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />,I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />i <br />I <br />'I <br />II <br />, <br />, <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Flooding at Piute Farms inundated over 1,000 ha of bottomlanJ, creating 30,000,000 m3 of new <br />habitat. Ample physical habitat was available, however, we found no evidence to suggest that <br />young native fish were surviving. Flooded areas were rapidly invaded by nonnative predato: <br />and their young. Maximum post-spawning densities in flooded areas reached 190,000 fish/hi 1 <br />pelagic zones and >220,000 fish/ha in littoral habitats. The occasional report of native larval. ,r <br />early life stages and absence of older subadult pikeminnow, chub, and native suckers, suggest <br />nonnative predation has effectively eliminated native fish recruitment from this portion of the <br />basin. Continued presences of razorback sucker and Colorado pikeminnow will ultimately <br />depend upon upstream stocking programs. <br />