Pallid Sturgeon and the Role of the Proposed Program

• Description: related to the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/2002
• Author: Working Group of the Technical Committee of the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• Title: Pallid Sturgeon Slides
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

Past BO's of the USFWS have concluded that water management on the
Missouri and Mississippi Rivers for flood control and navigation were the
cause of population declines.
• Just because the Platte River is one of the least altered tributaries to the
Missouri (UFWS, April 22, 2002) does not mean it is, or ever was habitat
for pallid sturgeon. If the Platte River is one of the least altered of the
tributaries to the Missouri River its use by pallid sturgeon would also be the
least altered and yet three years of intense effort to find pallid sturgeon in
the river has resulted in less than one fish per year.
• Current study of flow impacts from the central Platte River indicate the
central Platte flows are a small percentage of the lower Platte River flows
and likely do not significantly affect most hydraulic parameters.
• Two radio tagged fish did not stay in Platte River or could not be found.