WSPC01558

• File Number: 8460.500
• Description: Platte River Basin - Endangered Species Issues - South Platte Recovery Program
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 2/10/1994
• Author: CDW
• Title: South Platte Agreement - Lower South Platte River Basin Aquatic Wildlife Management Guide Prototype - Draft
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Waters that support sportfishing are placed in the following
categories:

A. INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT WATERS - Intensive management waters are
managed to provide the highest possible level of fishing
recreation within the limits of the facilities and physical
environment to support such use at the least cost. The
primary management objective is to provide fish for anglers to
catch and keep through stocking rates that ensure full use of
available facilities and maximize return to the creel. Waters
are managed under this concept when the angling demand cannot
be met by other management options due to low conductivity or
an intensity of angler use that precludes the use of other
management techniques.

The Lower South Platte Basin contains 2,982 acres of xntensive
Management water. There is one water in each of the two
management groups.

1. Warmwater Lakes less than 100 acres seasonally stocked
with catchable trout, warmwater species fry or
fingerlings, or warmwater species natural recruitment.

- Akron city Lake

Current Management: The lake is managed through a
combination of fish stocking and habitat improvement. Annual
plants of fish include: catchable rainbow trout, channel catfish,
largemouth bass and hybrid bluegill, and periodic plants of hybrid
grass carp.

2. warmwater Reservoirs greater than 500 acres seasonally
stocked with catchable trout, warmwater species fry and
fingerlings, or warmwater species natural recruitment.

- Jackson Reservoir

Current Management: The reservoir is managed with the use
of stocked fish due to water quality and water fluctuation problems
and special regUlations.. Fish species currently stocked include:
walleye fingerling, channel catfish, wipers, black crappie, yellow
perch and rainbow trout catchables.

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OPTIMUM MANAGEMENT WATERS - Optimum management waters are
managed to provide fishing recreation within the limits of the
habitat to produce fish at the least cost. The primary
management objective is to provide fish for anglers to catch
and keep in balance with the water's ability to produce fish.
stocking, when necessary, is at a level similar to what would

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