6001

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 6001
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, C. R. F. R. T.
• Title: Colorado Squawfish Recovery Plan.
• USFW Year: 1978.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

- ~ EDITORIAL COmi"ENTS: COLORADO SQUAWFISH RECOVERY PLAN
Karl Seethaler
September 30, 1977 ~
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states that this is not an official government document. Nevertheless,
o-1 this ought to have a more descriptive authorship. It would be very difficult
to cite this document.. It mentions the Recovery Team without giving the
Team's name, membership or function (other than a specific instruction).
The document has no date, nor does it name who the publishers are or where

it was printed. ,
Page 3 -"According to Mrs. Phyllis Shaw (Las Vegas),..." Who is she? Who
b-2 interviewed her? '
Page 4 - "Gonads begin to mature during the high runoff-from snow melt (April-
0-3 June)." This is interesting biological information, and possibly correct. But
has it been documented that the high runoff is indeed the implied causal
agent?
Page 5 - While Hoover Dam had a dramatic impact upon the character of i;he
0-4 Colorado River, it was not the first.
Page 6 - (Para~~raph 2) "...squawfish also disappear in the riverine portion
0-5 above some of the reservoirs (i.e., S~].t River above Roosevelt Lake, Arizona;
..." In the Salt River above Roosevelt Lake near the confluence of the Black
and White Rivers is one area where it is considered remotely possible ghat
some squawfish may persist, and which area is being recommended as critical
habitat.
(Paragraph 3) 65 miles should also be expressed in kilometers (105 km).
The word "refugium" is used here and other places in the text. I have
0-6 some misgivings about how it is used, and do not consider it to be technically
correct. It might be interpreted' that a refugium will assure the survival of
the species. "The Yampa River presently provides habitat for squawfish..."
would appear better wording to me.
Page 16 - (113 paragraph 1) "...not to initiate numerous lawsuits and to
clutter the courts. with complicated and costly legal actions." These words
0_7 appear awkward and =apologetic. It might be warded differently, such as "While
legal action may be the course of last resort, the ability to develop..."
(113 paragraph 4) There is a grammatical problem with this paragraph,
a failure of agreement in style among the clauses: "first, the development (noun)
...second, the development (noun}.,.third, develop (verb}..." All three should
0-8 be nouns, or all three should be verbs.
(1143)
Page 17 -/Colorado squawfish exist (not exists), or it could be written: the
Colorado squawfish exists. Also, the Bureau of Land Management is not a state
0-9 agency.
(1144) indispensable should read indispensable.
Page 18 - (1221) Criteria for determining trend zones should be delineated.
0-10 Pag® 19 - (123) squawfish is written twice.
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