9594

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9594
• Author: Colorado Division of Wildlife and e. al.
• Title: Procedures for Stocking Nonnative Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

Wyoming Game & Fish Department
5400 Bishop Blvd.
Cheyenne, WY 82002
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
134 Union Blvd.
Lakewood, CO 80228
3. Geographic Scope. These Procedures and this
only to the Upper Colorado River Basin above Glen
San Juan Subbasin. The San Juan River basin was
being covered under a separate recovery effort.

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Cooperative Agreement apply ,
Canyon Dam, excluding the
not included because it is
4. Term. This Cooperative Agreement shall remain in effect through the life
of the Recovery Program, unless terminated per paragraph 5.
5. Amendment. This Cooperative Agreement and the Procedures may be extended,
amended, or terminated by agreement of the parties, or any party may withdraw
from this Cooperative Agreement upon written notice to the other parties and
the Recovery Program.
6. Authorities and Responsibilities.
A. States: Will ensure that all State and private stocking of nonnative
fishes in the Upper Colorado River Basin are in compliance with the
Procedures. This will include, but not be limited to, enacting/clarifying
appropriate regulations for stocking of public and private waters.
B. Fish and Wildlife Service: Will ensure that all stocking from federal
hatcheries is in compliance with Stocking Procedures for the Upper
Colorado River Basin and provide up to 40,000 catchable rainbow trout
annually for stocking into public floodplain ponds.
C. Recovery Program: Will serve as a funding mechanism for components of
the Procedures that contribute directly to the recovery of the endangered
fishes. The Recovery Program will facilitate coordination of pond
stocking and reclamation proposals with flooded bottomlands restoration
and propagation plans. This is expected to include the use of some
reclaimed ponds for rearing of endangered fishes as specified in the
flooded bottomland and propagation programs.
7. No Delegation or Abrogation. All parties to this Cooperative Agreement
recognize that they each have statutory responsibilities that cannot be
delegated, and that this Cooperative Agreement does not and is not intended to
abrogate any of their statutory responsibilities.
8. Consistency with Applicable Law. This Cooperative Agreement is subject to
and is intended to be consistent with all applicable State and Federal laws
and interstate agreements.
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