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proximate genetic management safeguards that reduce genetic risks associated with routine <br />breeding and rearing activities (Williamson and Wydoski 1994). <br />The risk of genetic hazards or losses resulting from these processes will be reduced by the <br />application of an ongoing comprehensive genetic management and monitoring program. This <br />plan outlines the strategy to produce baseline information on captive and wild stocks, using a set <br />of management objectives, actions and tasks that will allow informed management decisions to be <br />made based on the results of ongoing genetic analysis. <br />The basic management activities of broodstock development and captive propagation are <br />(Williamson and Wydoski 1994): <br />1) selection of the proper donor source; <br />2) mining wild fish or gametes for broodstock, reproducing existing stocks; <br />3) rearing broodfish to maturity; <br />4) choosing and applying the proper breeding or mating system; <br />5) rearing young for various management activities; and <br />6) augmentation stocking or reintroduction stocking. <br />The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers the Lake Mohave RBS population to be the highest <br />priority genetics conservation unit in the lower basin, in terms of its ultimate value to species <br />identity and integrity, its recoverability, and its long-term viability and sustainability; This <br />rationale has provided the impetus for Dexter NFHTC to select the Lake Mohave population as <br />the proper donor source upon which to found a captive production broodstock. Over the past two <br />decades, Dexter NFHTC has developed a diverse, multi-year class sample that will contain an <br />adequate representation of the genetic diversity of the Lake Mohave population of RBS. <br />28