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Article: PRELIMINARY DATA INDICATE HUMPBACK CHUB TRANSLOCATION SUCCESSFUL TO DATE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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GRAND CANYON, Ariz., Aug. 17 -- The National Park Service's Grand Canyon National Park issued the following press release:
On June 15th, 2009, the National Park Service, in conjunction with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, the Arizona Game and Fish Department, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service translocated 300 juvenile humpback chub to Shinumo Creek in Grand Canyon National Park. Monitoring of the new Shinumo Creek humpback chub population by fisheries biologists in early July, as well as data collected by a PIT (a microchip known as a passive integrated transponder) tag scanner installed in the stream, showed that most of the translocated fish had ...