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<br />July) at the hatchery and 224 grams in Baeser Bend (61 g 28 July to 285 g September). <br />~ Growth rates for these fish while at the hatchery were 0.8 mm/day and 0.3 grams/day <br />compared to 1.5 mm/day and 1.4 grams/day after being stocked into Baeser Bend <br /> <br />(Figure 16). <br />In spring 2000, razorback sucker that were stocked in April 1999 into Baeser <br />Bend averaged 353 mm and 526 grams and those stocked in July averaged 294 mm <br />~ and 341 grams (Figure 17). Following the second growing season (late summer 2000) <br />April stocked fish averaged 409 mm and 722 grams (Figure 17). July stocked fish were <br />similar at 391 mm and 661 grams. Average growth rates for the second growing <br />~ season were 0.3 mm/day and 1.2 grams/day (Figure 18). <br />Baeser Bend is the only site where age-1 fish that were stocked in April 2000 <br />survived. These fish averaged 103 mm at the time of stocking and grew to 282 mm by <br />August (Figure 17). Weight gains averaged 231 grams (12.8 g at stocking to 244 g). <br />Average growth rates these fish were similar to growth rates for fish stocked in 1999. <br />~ Fish stocked in 2000 averaged 1.4 mm/day and 1.8 grams/day compared to 1.4 <br />mm/day and 2.7 grams/day in 1999 (Figures 19 and 16). <br />Monitoring movement to the river <br />~ The first river-floodplain connection period following the April 1999 stocking <br />occurred between 12 May and 25 June 1999. Connections in 1999 were maintained for <br />52 days at Above Brennan, 33 at Baeser Bend and 31 at The Stirrup. During this <br />connection period following the April 1999 stocking only two razorback sucker were <br />caught in traps set to catch fish leaving the sites (Table 2). Both of these fish were <br />~ caught at Baeser Bend on the same day. These few captures, combined with <br />16 <br /> <br />