9577

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9577
• Author: Utah Department of Natural Resources.
• Title: RANGE-WIDE Conservation Agreement and Strategy for Roundtail Chub Gila robusta, Bluehead Sucker Catostomus discobolus, and Flannelmouth Sucker Catostomus latipinnis.
• USFW Year: 2006.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, UT.
• Copyright Material: NO

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consistent guidelines and direction for the development and implementation of individual
state wildlfe management plans for these three fish species.
^ Establish and/or maintain roundtail chub, flannelmouth sucker and bluehead sucker
populations sufficient to ensure persistence of each species within their ranges.
1) Establish measureable criteria to evaluate the number of populations required to
maintain the three species throughout their respective ranges.
2) Establish measureable criteria to evaluate the number of individuals required
within each population to maintain the three species throughout their respective
ranges.
^ Establish and/or maintain sufficient connectivity between populations so that viable
metapopulations are established and/or maintained.

^ As feasible, identify, significantly reduce and/or eliminate threats to the persistence of
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roundtail chub, bluehead sucker, and flannelmouth sucker that: 1) may warrant or
maintain their listing as a sensitive species by state and federal agencies, and 2) may
warrant their listing as a threatened or endangered species under the ESA.
IV. OTHER SPECIES INVOLVED

This Agreement is primarily designed to ensure the persistence of roundtail chub,
bluehead sucker, and flannelmouth sucker within their respective distributions. This will be
achieved through conservation actions to protect and enhance these species and their habitats. ~
Although these actions will be designed to benefit the three species, they may also contribute to
the conservation of other native species with similar distributions.
Bonytail (Gila elegans), Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), humpback chub ~
(Gila cypha), and razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) are currently listed as endangered under
the ESA. In the Upper Colorado River Basin, recovery of one or more of these species has been
undertaken by the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper
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Colorado River Basin and the San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program. In the
Lower Colorado River Basin, the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center and the Lower