Agency verifies passage of pikeminnow through diversion structure

A $10 million structure was built three years ago so that the endangered Colorado pikeminnow, which is shown above, can swim past remains of a dam built in the Colorado River in 1911.



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A $10 million structure was built three years ago so that the endangered Colorado pikeminnow, which is shown above, can swim past remains of a dam built in the Colorado River in 1911.

The travel of the first two endangered Colorado pikeminnow through the 3-year-old fish passage in De Beque Canyon has been verified. The pikeminnows, one male and one female, passed through…




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