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<br />COLORADO RIVER RECOVERY PROGRAM <br />FY 94 ANNUAL PROJECT REPORT <br /> <br />RECOVERY PROGRAM <br />PROJECT NUMBER: 20 <br /> <br />I, Project Title: Management of Upper Colorado River Basin Fish <br />Collections -- Maintenance and Cataloguing of a Valuable Historic <br />Database <br /> <br />II. Principal Investigator(s): Darrel E. Snyder, Kevin R. Bestgen, and <br />Robert T. Muth; Larval Fish Laboratory, Colorado State University, <br />Fort Collins, CO 80523; e-mail desnyder@picea.cnr.colostate.edu or <br />kbestgen@lamar.colostate.edu; phone (303)491-5295 or 491-1848; fax <br />491-5091. <br /> <br />III. Project Summary: The Larval Fish Laboratory at Colorado State <br />University (LFL) has served as a depository for preserved fish eggs, <br />larvae, and small juveniles or adults collected by various agencies in <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin since 1976. This project provides for <br />reorganization, computer cataloguing, and label and container <br />standardization of these holdings and establishment of formal <br />collection management procedures and policies to facilitate proper care <br />of and access to the preserved specimens. It also provides for links <br />to other museums or related organizations to help assure collection <br />permanency and on-line computer access to the catalogue for ready <br />acquisition of collection-related information by researchers and <br />managers. <br /> <br />IV, Study Schedule: 1992-1994. <br /> <br />V, Relationship to RIPRAP: This work is related to support activities for <br />a number of RIPRAP items, including: <br /> <br />o The interagency standardized monitoring program and other research <br />under the General Recovery Program Support Action Plan, V. Monitor <br />populations and habitat and conduct research to support recovery. <br /> <br />0' Identification of larval fish for flow effects studies falls under <br />the "Initially identify year-round flows needed for recovery" items <br />in the Colorado and Green River action plans, <br /> <br />Preserved collections are the primary database for verification of <br />historical records; unlike the recorded data based on them, preserved <br />specimens cannot be altered except by destruction. They also are an <br />irreplaceable resource for new historical information on the biology <br />and ecology of the represented species, populations, communities, or <br />ecosystems at the time and place they were collected. <br /> <br />VI. Accomplishment of FY 94 Tasks and Deliverables: [Also, delayed FY 93 <br />Tasks and Deliverables] <br /> <br />A, Catalogue, relabel, upgrade containers if needed, and reorganize on <br />shelves as many sets of collections as time and funds under this <br />proposal allow, As of the end of November 1994, we have catalogued <br />over 10,800 lots of 1989-1994 specimens, We still have a backlog <br />of at least 30,000 lots of mostly 1976 to 1989 collections to <br />catalogue during the next several months and will continue <br />cataloguing new material shortly after it is processed until <br />