April 13-14 DOW Recovery Committee Notes

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DRC April 13 & 14 Meeting Notes Page 2 P_r_o_gram_e_le_m_e_n_t_s_ - The following individuals were given assignments to describe general stategies for each recovery element. These strategies should be general, broad statements that describe the direction we want to take. Send your strategies to Bob Caskey by May 13. Habitat Management - Sue Uppendahl Habitat Development & Maintenance - Tom Nesler Stocking of Native Fish Species - Nesler /Harris Nonnative Species and Sportfishery Mgt - Bill Elmblad Research, Monitoring, and Data Mgt - Don Horak Section 7 - Peter Evans Sufficient_progress - although there was a discussion on this issue, no decisions or assignments were made. I_R_O's - Bob Caskey feels it is critical the IRO document be adopted as a useful tool by the Management Committee and that it should be expanded to include the entire Upper Basin. M_ a_ n_ a _gement_C_o_m_m_it_te_e_a_genda - we should use this forum to bring up the propagation facilities bottleneck. We should demand a complete and accurate report of what happened at Dexter concerning the fish kill. We should oppose FWS stocking policies for native and nonnative fishes and make it clear that FWS does not have veto authority. May_7_ meeting _with_Caskey,_Mills :_and_Shanks - write down issues of where -- -- --- ----- - - - -- we are having problems with FWS and send to Caskey. Two suggested issues were the way the newspaper article explained the Dexter fish kill and the accuracy of the information in the Larry Shank's letter of fish held by FWS. On a tangential note to this discussion, everyone should write down the chronology of events where endangered fish and progeny have been lost or destroyed while in the possesson of FWS. Also write down instances where FWS has violated their own policies. Send comments to Caskey over the next couple of months. _Co_lo_rad_o_propagation_plan - because of what happened at Dexter and because of the lack of a comprehensive plan for the RIP, Kochman sees DOW preparing its own propagation plan for native fishes. Larry Harris will write a broad concept on what our native fish hatchery program should look like to include hatcheries and refugia. Harris will figure out how many acres of ponds we need to take care of squawfish currently at the research hatchery and will look into obtaining the Craig sewage ponds. Elmblad will look into building another refugia at Walker or in the Grand Valley. To prepare this plan we need to identify seperate endangered fishes stocks, and identify hatchery needs and refugia /holding facility needs by number and acreages of ponds.