Fish Hatchery
March 20, 2009--Chaffee County delays Nestle water plan (Pueblo Chieftain)
Chaffee County Commissioners delayed deciding Thursday on a proposal from Nestle to harvest natural spring water and truck it to its Denver bottling plant. Nestle Waters of North America Inc.
October 9, 2008--Quagga mussels pose new worry at Lake Pueblo (Pueblo West View)
Apprehension about potential damage from mussels in Lake Pueblo went up a couple of notches over the weekend after the state confirmed quaggas as well as zebras are in the water.
August 26, 2008--Fish sticks, fertilizer, biodiesel? Utah looks for uses for 6 million unwanted carp (L.A. Times)
The June sucker, which is known to live only in Utah Lake and its tributaries, has been listed as an endangered species since 1986, when biologists estimated there were fewer than 1,000 left. In recent years, about 100,000 June suckers have been raised in a hatchery and dropped into the lake.
March 4, 2008--Warming may have caused salmon collapse (LA Times)
Scientists examining the sudden and widespread collapse of West Coast salmon returns are pointing to the unusual changes in weather patterns that caused the bottom to fall out of the ocean food web in 2005.
June 13, 2007--50,000 trout die at hatchery (Durango Herald)
Fifty thousand rainbow trout were killed at the Colorado Division of Wildlife's hatchery in Durango on Sunday night after a seasonal worker forgot to reopen a water valve. The water valve, which supplies fresh water to the trout, had been closed for regular cleaning of the the south raceway.
