Colorado high school is fighting to save razorback suckers

Colorado high school is fighting to save razorback suckers

Source: earth

5/26/2022

Palisade High School, a twenty minute drive from where I live in Colorado, has something unusual – a fish hatchery. When I read about this, I had to visit the school to see for myself.

Razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus), the only fish raised at Palisade’s hatchery, once lived throughout the Colorado River Basin from Wyoming to Baja California, Mexico. As is typical of many fish native to the western US, damming of rivers, introduction of non-native sport fishes and irrigation channels have taken a toll.

The critically endangered fish is still found in small and fragmented populations throughout the Colorado River Basin and a few reservoirs created by the river. Razorback suckers are missing from large parts of their former southern range. Since 1991, the fish has been formally protected by the US federal government.

Columbia River

Sucker, Razorback

Continue...

News Id		Source	Stamp	country
1826	Much of drought-plagued U.S. West Coast faces salmon fishing ban	vancouversun	2023-03-24	US
1827	Wisconsin man ties Minnesota catch-and-release northern pike record	echopress	2023-03-14	US
1828	Expert on Minnesota lakes: Expect late ice-out this year	echopress	2023-03-14	US
1829	Frisch: A One-Two Punch for Walleyes	echopress	2023-03-16	US
1830	Crappie resurgence offers bonus winter action on Upper Red Lake	echopress	2023-03-17	US
1831	30 invasive carp caught in Mississippi near Winona	echopress	2023-03-23	US
1832	Fort Myers Beach removes 10 tons of dead fish from beaches	Fort Myers News-Press	2023-03-07	US
1833	Spearfisherman snags 177-pound monster, then has to get it out of ice-covered lake	thestate	2023-02-15	US
1834	Angler reels in record-breaking fish — and she’s just 5 years old, Idaho officials say	thestate	2023-03-08	US
1835	Nigeria's cage-based tilapia champion	thefishsite	2023-03-08	NG
1836	One of North America’s most dangerous invasive species is hitchhiking on fish	science	2023-03-10	US
1837	Anglerfish, the amazing sexual parasites of the abyss	elpais	2023-03-07	IS
1838	Plastic pollution is filtering up into the fish that we eat	salon	2023-03-08	US
1839	Federal infrastructure funds could be a boon for fish passage	southernmarylandchronicle	2023-03-11	US
1840	British angler hooks humongous 222lb catfish which dragged his boat	dailymail	2023-03-10	UK
1841	Scots teen reels in two fish three times his weight	dailyrecord	2023-03-12	UK
1842	A “Gold Rush” on one of the prettiest fish	wfxrtv	2023-03-13	US
1843	Fish farm diver who ended up paralysed wins over €500,000 in damages	timesofmalta	2023-03-14	MT
1844	Regulators signal no California salmon season this year amid dismal return of adult fish	THE PRESS DEMOCRAT	2023-03-10	US
1845	Did you know sea temperatures control distribution of European marine fish?	New Delhi	2023-03-11	PT
1846	Небольшая заметка про плотву	telegra	2023-03-20	RU
1847	Huge rare 'six-foot shark' washes up on UK shore for first time in history	mirror	2023-03-19	UK
1848	the man who took Nigeria's catfish sector to a new level	thefishsite	2023-03-15	NG
1849	Judge Extends Agreement Date for Oklahoma Poultry Lawsuit	Associated Press	2023-03-18	US
1850	Что с запретами на ловлю воблы и плотвы?	ohotniki	2023-03-13	RU