WSPC00516

• File Number: 8240.200.10.H
• Description: Colorado River Threatened-Endangered - UCRBRIP - Program Organization-Mission - Stocking
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 8/16/1996
• Author: DOI-FWS
• Title: Procedures for Stocking Non-Native Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin - Draft - 08-16-96
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Preface . .

Background

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Appendix A Family. Scientific Names. and Common Names of Fishes'
Mentioned in these Procedures . . . . . . 17

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General Intent of the Procedures.

Principles Related to the Procedures

Routine Stocking of Nonnative Fishes that Already Occur
and are Managed in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Case-by-Case Stocking of Nonnative Fishes that
Presently Occur but are not Managed in the Upper
Colorado River Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

AppendiX B Terms or Acronyms Used in these Procedures . . 18

AppendiX C

AppendiX D

, Stocking of Nonnative Fishes that Do Not Presently Occur
in the Upper Colorado River Basin . . . . . . . . . . .

Locations. Situations. and Species where Stocking
of Nonnative. Warmwater Fish Species would be
Unacceptable . . . . . . .

Exceptions to the Procedures

Steps in the Review of Stocking Proposals

Reporting . . . . . . . . . . .

Modification of these Procedures.

References

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American Fisheries Society Policy Statement on
"Introduction of Aquatic Species" .. . . . .

Location by Section. Range. and Township for the
6.520-foot Elevation on the Colorado and Green Rivers
and Their Tributaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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