Harry Knaub
Wally Billingham wrote:
> This is interesting, why do they want to list them as being endangered?
> According to the book "Pennsylvania Fishes" published by the PA Fish and
> Boat Commission all of them came from a "single female trout with a genetic
> mutation that gave her a mixed golden and normal rainbow trout coloration.
> She was found in the West Virginia hatchery system in 1954."
>
> PA grows them by the thousands and then stocks them along with regular
> rainbows as a novelty. I guess they are the ultimate exotic fish dumped in
> our states waterways. Which is why I find the following quote quite amusing
>
> "The finding comes almost a year after the
> conservation group Trout Unlimited sued the agency to force it to consider
> such a move. The fish's population has declined because of habitat loss,
> hybridization,
> competition with non-native trout"
>
> Its funny thats EXACTLY where these trout came from. The are hybrid
> non-native trout produced in a hatchery. If they want them in California why
> not just farm them like PA does?
>
> Wally
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Roghfish_at_aol.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2002 8:36 AM
> Subject: NANFA-- Calif. Fish May Get Endangered Tag
>
> > SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal government has determined California's
> state
> > fish, the golden trout, may need to be listed as an endangered species.
> >
> > The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday there's substantial
> evidence
> > to support listing the trout. The finding comes almost a year after the
> > conservation group Trout Unlimited sued the agency to force it to consider
> > such a move.
> >
> > The fish's population has declined because of habitat loss, hybridization,
> > competition with non-native trout, and even overgrazing by livestock. At
> one
> > time, the fish were found in 450 miles of streams in the Southern Sierra
> > Nevada, but over the past 100 years that has dwindled to just over 80
> miles.
> >
> > The service now will begin a 12-month review to determine if a listing is
> > warranted and, if it is, whether that listing will be as a threatened
> species
> > or as an endangered one. A threatened species is likely to become
> endangered
> > in the foreseeable future, and an endangered one faces the threat of
> > extinction throughout part or all of the range where it lives.
> >
> > Native populations of the fish now are found only in the Golden Trout
> Creek
> > and South Fork of the Kern River. The rivers are both in the Golden Trout
> > Wilderness in Inyo National Forest.
> >
> > ``It's great news,'' said Scott Yates of Trout Unlimited. ``What's
> > interesting is the habitat for these fish is on federal land. The
> Endangered
> > Species Act could really be productive in terms of focusing conservation
> > efforts and trying to get the state to conserve native fish.''
> >
> > Trout Unlimited sued the Fish and Wildlife Service in November 2001, and
> this
> > June a federal judge gave the service three months to start the process of
> > listing the fish.
> >
> > The Fish and Wildlife Service faces a backlog of other endangered species
> > requests and lawsuits.
> >
> > ``We've gotten so many petitions; we're responding to many, many
> lawsuits,''
> > said Jim Nickles of the service. ``We'd like to be able to act on them as
> > quickly as possible, we just have a real crunch in the resources we
> have.''
> >
> > So far, fishing of the colorful trout, a subspecies of rainbow trout, is
> not
> > affected. If the fish is listed as endangered, state fish and game
> regulators
> > would need to come up with guidelines for taking the fish.
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