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Local News
3:48 pm
Wed July 18, 2012

Saving fish from a drying river

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Biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Army Corps of Engineers seine a pool, then sort through the fish for endangered silvery minnows.
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Biologist Tristan Austring readies to survey a pool for silvery minnows.
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A silvery minnow gets plucked from a pool.
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A dry stretch of the Rio Grande in Los Lunas on July 17, 2012.
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Biologists check the seine nets for silvery minnow.
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The crews use 50-gallon fiberglass tanks to hold the salvaged minnows.
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The Rio Grande as a rivulet of water flowing downstream toward the dry section of river.
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Jason Remshardt, supervisory fish biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service pours river water into the minnow's tank to help the fish acclimate before release.
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The monsoon rains arrived this month, but it’s still hot and dry in New Mexico.

The ongoing drought is placing stress on the state’s rivers and streams, including the Rio Grande. And while cities and farmers still receive their shares of water, each summer, one user gets left out—the Rio Grande itself. Like it has every summer for the past decade, the Rio Grande downstream of Albuquerque is drying.

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