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videos, slide and television presentations, etc. specific to <br />the pallid sturgeon and the effects of human alteration of the <br />Missouri /Mississippi River ecosystem should be produced for <br />dissemination to specific audiences, such as sport and <br />commercial fishermen and private industry. This educational <br />effort should increase public acceptance for recovery <br />activities. <br />1.3.2. Provide cultured pallid sturgeon to aquaria and comparable <br />facilities where they can be viewed by the public. <br />Hatchery produced pallid sturgeon that are not needed for <br />broodstock, reintroduction, research, and other recovery <br />efforts should be provided to aquaria, universities, or similar <br />facilities for educational purposes. Educational exhibits <br />utilizing these fish should inform the public that this species <br />is an indicator of a deteriorating ecosystem. <br />1.4. Establish refugia of pallid sturgeon broodstock. <br />1.4.1 Collect pallid sturgeon broodstock from the wild and maintain <br />refugia at three locations. <br />Adult pallid sturgeon must be removed from the wild to serve as <br />future broodstock. This task is believed necessary to guard <br />against species extinction while protection and restoration <br />activities are being implemented for long -term recovery. <br />Wild broodstock /refugia must be esta <br />facilities to guard against catastro <br />should be transplanted to the closes <br />stress of being transported long dis <br />capture. It is recommended that a t <br />females and five to seven males be r <br />river reaches spanning the pallid st <br />reaches are recommended to be: (A) t <br />mouth of the Marias River in Montana <br />South Dakota encompassing recovery -p <br />(B) the Missouri River from Gavins P <br />River and then the Mississippi River <br />Arkansas River in Arkansas encompass <br />areas 4 and Dart of 5. and (C) the M <br />)lished at three separate <br />)hic loss. These fish <br />facility to minimize <br />:ances from the point of <br />)tal of five to seven <br />moved from three separate <br />irgeon's range. The river <br />ie Missouri River from the <br />to Gavins Point Dam in <br />,iority areas 1, 2, and 3, <br />lint Dam to the Mississippi <br />to the mouth of the <br />ng recovery - priority <br />ssissinni River frnm tho <br />mouth of the Arkansas River to the Gulf of Mexico including the <br />Atchafalaya River, encompassing the remainder of recovery - <br />priority area 5 and area 6. River reach A broodstock would go <br />to Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in South Dakota, river <br />reach B broodstock to Blind Pony State Hatchery in Missouri, <br />and river reach C broodstock to either Natchitoches National <br />Fish Hatchery in Louisiana, or to a yet undetermined alternate <br />facility. <br />29 <br />