The National Park Service will poison a Colorado River side channel below Glen Canyon Dam to remove fish that threaten native species, the agency announced.
LEES FERRY –
The Park Service on July 1 found young bass swimming in a slough connected to the river about 3 miles below the dam and 12 miles upstream of where anglers and rafters launch boats at Lees Ferry. It’s the same slough where biologists have in recent years tracked another invader from Lake Powell, the green sunfish. The agency announced it will treat the slough with the fish killer rotenone on Saturday and Sunday.
The stretch of river from the dam to Lees Ferry is a focus in the government’s efforts to protect humpback chubs, which only last year wereBeyond bass and other introduced sportfish that swim just above the dam and could push through, brown trout that the Park Service itself stocked for anglers in the river during the 20th century are a potential threat.
“It might incentivize me to learn how to fly fish,” Seamster said as he left his post near Paria Beach, downstream of the Lees Ferry boat ramp. “A whole lot were jumping. I saw a whole bunch of little ones follow the Rooster Tail in.”
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