9377 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9377
• Author: Colorado Water Workshop.
• Title: 16th Annual Colorado Water Workshop.
• USFW Year: 1991.
• USFW - Doc Type: Western State College.
• Copyright Material: NO

other means of water rights under existing state systems to meet
the agreed upon habitat needs.
Program pp4ts, Revenue Sources, and Elements
The recovery program is expected to require 15 years and
cost approximately $62 million over this period of time.
operating costs of $37 million will come from the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation, the Service, the states of Colorado, Wyoming, and
Utah, and water development groups. A congressional
appropriation of $15 million will be sought and water development
depletion fees (funds collected in conjunction with the issuance
of biological opinions under Section 7 of the Endangered Species
Act) are expected to provide the remaining $10 million.
The program contains five major elements.
i. Habitat management: identify and acquire instream flows,
including the change in operation of federal reservoirs in the
basin.
2. Habitat development: research methods for creating,
protecting, and improving habitat.
3. Stocking native fish: identify and maintain specific
genetic stock of native fish, study survival of hatchery fish
stocked in the wild, and evaluate feasibility of constructing a
hatchery.
4. Non-native species and sport-fishing: monitor sizes of
native and non-native fish populations, study competition between
the two, and limit areas in which non-native fish may be
stocked.
5. Research, monitoring, and data management: study various
means of recovering fish, monitor long-terra population trends,
recommend flows, evaluate genetic differences between:
populations, recommend "refugia" (facilities to hold and protect
rare fish), evaluate differences between hatchery and wild fish,
establish brood stock, and develop and manage centralized data
base,
Status of the Recovery Program and
the Environmental Community's Role
Since its official start-up in early 19ss, the debate over
the endangered fish in those parts of the basin addressed by the
program (essentially all of the Upper Colorado except the San
Juan and its tributaries) has become more constructive and has
focused on a more coordinated research effort. An agreement is
emerging on habitat needs and the research agenda of the
Service's fisheries biologists is now more coordinated with its