7424

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7424
• Author: National Research Council
• Title: Editor
• USFW Year: Series
• USFW - Doc Type: 1987
• Copyright Material: YES

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pre-dam information had been available.
Nevertheless, the GCES provides the beginning of
useful documentation at a time when the Bureau of
Reclamation is considering improved management of
the Colorado River as part of its responsibility.
Although the committee does not believe that the
Bureau of Reclamation can make any long-term
decisions concerning the management of Glen Canyon
Dam based on the GCES, the studies have yielded
some excellent information. GCES scientists should
be encouraged to submit their work for
publication. Clearly, not all reports will yield
publishable manuscripts. In some cases the
production of unpublishable results is testimony to
the inadequacy of the work and of the planning that
led to it. Many results, however, represent new
knowledge and will contribute to the information
base about the Colorado River.
Future work by the Department of the Interior
should seek to
• encourage publication of study results to
gain credibility in the scientific community and to
assure accessibility of information
• establish a data management, storage, and
retrieval system to provide easy access and quality
assurance
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Aquatic Resources
The studies of aquatic resources have good
breadth and touch on most of the subjects that
could have been considered of potential
significance when the studies began. Program
components that were particularly outstanding
include extensive documentation of the abundance
and distribution of fishes, documentation of
physical habitat characteristics, growth and
condition factors in fishes, and determination of