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Article: Rio Grande's endangered silvery minnow is boon to some, bane to others.
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- Life Science Weekly
- Article date:
- June 2, 2003
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2003 JUN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A New Mexico State University scientist's new economic analysis of the cost to keep the Rio Grande flowing for the endangered silvery minnow found that Albuquerque, New Mexico, residents and some central New Mexico agricultural users do suffer, while other water users downstream benefit.
The net gain for New Mexico agriculture would be $68,000 a year, with central New Mexico losing $68,000 a year and southern New Mexico adding $217,000, primarily because of the high-value crops grown in the region, said Frank Ward, an agricultural economist at NMSU. Farther down river, El Paso area farmers would get a boost of $203,000 a ...