7176

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7176
• Author: Miller, W. H., L. R. Kaeding and H. M. Tyus.
• Title: Windy-Gap Fishes Study First Annual Report.
• USFW Year: 1983.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

4) to modify river backwaters and gravel pits, between Debeque
Canyon and the mouth of the Green River, in a way that
might enhance the survival of endangered fishes.
5) to evaluate natural and modified river backwaters as
habitat for young Colorado squawfish and humpback chub,
and
6) to determine the extent that Colorado squawfish and humpback
chub move within the Colorado River and its tributaries.
These objectives are largely interrelated and the achievement of
some is prerequisite to the successful completion of others. The objectives
consists of two major work elements: 1) movement, spawning, and rearing
studies (objectives 1,2,3, and 6) and 2) backwater and gravel pit investigations
(objectives 4 and 5). Although a distinction is made between these work
elements for the purpose of clarity, it is recognized that work elements
themselves are also interrelated.
Investigations during 1982 were
between Palisade, Colorado and Hite,
the Redlands diversion structure and
Colorado rivers; the lower 20 miles
River from the confluences of the Yai
(Figure 1).
carried out in the Colorado River
Utah; the Gunnison River between
the confluence of the Gunnison and
of Yampa River; and the Green
npa downstream to Gray Canyon
a
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