7339

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7339
• Author: Valdez, R. A.
• Title: A Review of the Hatchery Program for Threatened and Endangered Fishes of the Colorado River.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: Logan, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

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transfers of endangered Colorado River fishes have been made from the Dexter
NFH in New Mexico to the FWS Field Research Laboratory at Jackson,
Wyoming; to Page Springs SFH in Arizona; and to Niland SFH in California.
Willow Beach NFH served as the principal hatchery for endangered Colorado
River fishes until about 1980, when a transition was initiated to the
Dexter NFH near Roswell, New Mexico. Since that time, Willow Beach NFH has
been phased out of endangered fish production and Dexter NFH has assumed the
role as principal hatchery.

A recent feasibility study of Colorado River Endangered Fish Hatcheries
(Valentine 1983) examined the need for continued propagation of the
endangered fishes and assessed the suitability of existing hatchery
facilities. The results of that study are summarized and discussed in
Section 4.0, HATCHERY FACILITIES AND CAPABILITIES, of this document.
That study recommends the need to consolidate recovery efforts of the
endangered Colorado Ri ver fi shes wi th the development of a new
hatchery Ifi el d 1 aboratory. Constructi on of such a facil ity wi 11 depend on
appropriate funding.