9318

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9318
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Procedures for Stocking Nonnative Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver.
• Copyright Material: NO

Gunnison River and to operate a fisFi passage around the Redlands Diversion Dam.
A voluntary EIS will be prepared on operation changes.
5. Storage Units Fishery Information
The Flaming Gorge, Wayne N. Aspinall, Glen Canyon, and Navajo Units
continue to provide excellent warm- and cold-water fishing both in the reservoirs
and in the tailwater streams below the dams. Visitor days on the reservoirs total
between six and seven million each year. Lake Powell provides approximately 40
percent of the total use, with the remainder coming from the other reservoirs. Lake
Powell is almost exclusively swarm-water fishery with striped bass, crappie,
walleye, channel catfish and smallmouth and largemouth bass as the harvested
species. Angling use on reservoirs appears to be constant, while demand and use
for the tailwaters is increasing dramatically (Reclamation does not gather specific
data on angler usage at its reservoirsl.
Flaming Gorge and Navajo Reservoirs provide both cold- and warm-water
fishing, with rainbow trout and kokanee the predominant cold-water harvest and
catfish, bass and crappie (at Navajo only) the preferred warm-water fishes. Flaming
Gorge also provides aworld-class lake trout fishery. The Aspinall reservoirs are
exclusively cold-water fisheries, with kokanee and rainbow trout the predominant
catch.
The four tailwaters (the San Juan River below Navajo Dam, the Green River
below Flaming Gorge Dam, the Gunnison River below Crystal Dam and the Colorado
River below Glen Canyon Dam) have provided "blue ribbon" trout fishing that many
view as some of the best in the western United States. The Green River (below
Flaming Gorge Dam) receives about one half of the total use with the Colorado River
(below Glen Canyon Dam1, the San Juan River (below Navajo Dam) and the
Gunnison River (below Crystal Dam) providing the remainder.
B. TRANSMISSION DIVISION
The power system includes high voltage transmission lines that intercon-
nect to the CRSP hydro-powerplants and deliver power to major load centers or
other delivery points. The system is interconnected with adjacent federal, public,
and private utility transmission systems. The Transmission Division was transferred
to the Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration, in fiscal year
1978.
Generation at CRSP powerplants amounted to 8.4 billion kilowatt-hours
during water year 1998. The major portion, 6.6 billion kilowatt-hours, was
produced at Glen Canyon Dam. The balance was produced at Flaming Gorge, Blue
Mesa, Morrow Point, Crystal, Fontenelle, McPhee, and Towaoc Powerplants.
The following table lists the gross generation for fiscal years 1997 and
1998 and the percentage of change:
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