Conservation
The Bonytail Chub’s population sizes are small, and continue to become even smaller. The depletion of the population is primarily due to the habitat alterations caused by dams.
A USFWS Recovery Plan was established in 1990, and included objectives of protecting the habitats of the Bonytail Chub, and even reintroducing hatchery-reared fish into the wild.
The Bonytail Chub Recovery Plan was approved on September 4, 1990, and many refugia for the Bonytail Chub exist today in several places: Dexter National Fish Hatchery, New Mexico; Arizona Game and Fish Page Springs Hatchery; Ouray National Wildlife Refuge, Ouray, Utah; Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, Sasabe, Arizona; Niland Native Fish Ponds, California.
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