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• Endangered fish hatchery construction: Current facilities are inadequate to meet <br />anticipated needs. Additional hatchery and research facilities are required to prevent <br />endangered fish from becoming extinct, maintain unique genetic resources and pro- <br />duce fish for appropriate stocking, reintroduction efforts and research. <br />Ponds have been excavated in Big Water and Ouray, Utah. At the Big Water, Utah, <br />site, $600,000 was approved for excavating 10 ponds. Called the Wahweap State <br />Fish Hatchery, this facility will be used to raise upper Colorado River razorbacks <br />and Lake Mohave bonytail. In Ouray, $450,000 was used to improve the water sup- <br />ply and build four more ponds. <br />In Craig, Colo., four one -acre ponds will be constructed this summer to hold razor- <br />back suckers from the Green River. <br />A Bureau of Reclamation building near Grand Junction is being converted into a <br />hatchery building to produce razorback suckers from the upper Colorado River. <br />These fish will be used for stocking into the Gunnison River. <br />FY 1997 funding is needed to continue construction at Ouray, Wahweap, Craig and <br />Grand Junction. <br />5 <br />