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<br />Strategy 12: Acquire adequate instream flows and lake levels. and meet water quality standards. <br /> <br />All legal avenues for maintaining adequate flows, pools and water quality will be used, along <br />with purchase of private water rights and negotiations on timing, duration and volume of <br />flows and drawdowns. <br /> <br />Strategy 13: Secure reintroduction sites. <br /> <br />Ecosystems selected for restoration of CRCT will be secured from upstream movement of <br />non-native fish and from in-stream, riparian and watershed habitat degradation. Cooperative <br />management agreements with public agencies and private organizations or individuals that <br />have an interest in CRCT will be developed in order to ensure the long-term safety of the <br />restored ecosystems. <br /> <br />Strategy 14: Remove non-native fish species. <br /> <br />Non-native fish in the ecosystems selected for restoration ofCRCT will be removed using <br />standard operating procedures for either rotenone or antimycin. <br /> <br />Strategy 15: Maintain sources of genetically pure Colorado River cutthroat. <br /> <br />Sources of the various genetic stocks identified throughout the range of the CRCT will be <br />maintained in hatcheries or in designated lake and stream refugia. Hatchery stock will be <br />replenished from its wild source no less than once every three years. <br /> <br />Strategy 16: Stock selected sites with genetically pure Colorado River cutthroat. <br /> <br />Introduction, re-introduction and transplant protocols will be developed based on criteria of <br />maximizing genetic integrity among DPS by minimizing mixing of genetic types, and <br />maximizing genetic variability within populations. Decisions will be based on both thorough <br />field study and credible, in-depth genetic analyses. Ecosystems selected for restoration will <br />be stocked with an appropriate strain of CRCT determined to be genetically pure using the <br />complete suite of assessment techniques. Fish will be stocked either by natural dispersal <br />from a connected water, transplant of juvenile and/or adult fish from a donor water, or <br />stocking from a hatchery source. Indigenous populations will always be considered more <br />valuable than stocked populations as sources for restocking. Stocked populations will be <br />considered restored when natural recruitment has sustained them for ten years. <br /> <br />Plannine: <br /> <br />Strategy 17: Develop cooperative interagency work environment. <br /> <br />Specific organizational arrangements, including effective feedback and accountability <br />procedures, are needed to effectively meet the diverse challenges involved in restoring and <br /> <br />March 1999 <br /> <br />23 <br />