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also submit their data as delimited ASCII files or spreadsheet files. However, these files must contain only raw data aligned in rows and columns suitable for importing into dBASE or another database program. The data codes or numeric format must conform to the list of codes mentioned above. Investigators must also submit complete documentation describing the contents of the file. The database manager checks each file to ensure that the data confoml to the required format and prepares one page of documentation for each file received. The documentation includes name of principal contact, river where data were collected, year of data colleCtion, a brief summary of the study design, description of the data file itself (i.e. field names and description of contents, data codes, etc), and a list of the major reports or publications that are associated with the data file. Future users will be referred to the reports for a complete description of the study design and conclusions of the original researchers. The database manager also distributes PIT tags to researchers as they request them and maintains a list of all tags and who they are distributed to. PIT tag lists submitted by researchers are compared with this database to identify transcription errors. All errors can not be corrected, but at least a few errors can be eliminated before they are included in the basin-wide tagging list. Other errors are corrected when they are identified. The Interagency Standardized Monitoring Program (ISMP) was developed in 1986 to monitor population trends of Colorado pikeminnow and humpback chub in the Colorado River Basin. The original ISMP was composed of three parts: I) spring electro fishing for subadult and adult Colorado pikeminnow in parts of the Green, Colorado, White and Yampa rivers (about 20 -30% of occupied habitat within each of the rivers); 2) autumn backwater seining for yay Colorado pikeminnow in the Colorado and Green rivers; and 3) sampling for adult humpback chubs with trammel nets in Black Rocks and Westwater Canyon. ISMP has undergone substantial changes since its beginning and is currently considerably reduced from the early program. Humpback chub and adult Colorado pikeminnow monitoring have been eliminated and replaced with more intensive mark-recapture population estimates. Fall sampling for YOY Colorado pikeminnow is the only remaining component of the original program. ISMP was originally funded under a separate scope of work, but the data maintenance portion of the reduced program has been consolidated with the overall data program. IV. Study Schedule: Scheduled to continue for the length of the Recovery Program. V. Relationship to RIPRAP: General Recovery Program Support Action Plan. V. Monitor populations and habitat and conduct research to support recovery actions (research, monitoring, and data management). FY 2002 Annual Report 16 Page - 2