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<br />C"') <br /> <br />!~,\.) <br />...' <br />~,""", <br />QO <br /> <br />1) Establish and protect self-sustaining populations in their <br />natural habitat throughout the squawfish's present range. <br /> <br />2) Legally protect habitat and remove the threat of significant <br />fragmentation. <br /> <br />Objectives for the razorback sucker are found in the razorback status <br />report prepared for the Upper Basin Recovery Implementation Program <br />(USFWS. 1987) and the Upper Basin Genetics and Propagation Program <br />(USFWS. ) and include: <br /> <br />1) Capture. secure and provide refugia for individual <br />representatives of presumptive genetic populations. <br /> <br />2) Maintain and enhance wild populations in their habitat. <br /> <br />3) Augment. if necessary. existing populations. <br /> <br />Specific species recovery goals will be developed for the San Juan River basin <br />using information developed as part of the San Juan Recovery Program. <br />Specific goals established will reflect the need to protect these fishes in <br />the San Juan River. and will recognize the value, contribution. and role of <br />these fishes in recovery of the species throughout their range. <br /> <br />1.2 BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR THE RECOVERY PROGRAM <br /> <br />During the Section 7 Consultation on the Animas-La Plata Project, a group of <br />state and federal agency biologists was convened to consider the impacts of <br />the project and to provide their views on proposed elements of the reasonable <br />and prudent alternatives. The biologists agreed that there were three <br />"critical assumptions" regarding endangered fish populations in the San Juan <br />Basin (reference): <br /> <br />2 <br />