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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