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We've had two wild lots of Spruce Creek lineage of Gila Trout; the Spruce Creek and the Whiskey Creek lineage. Both of their habititats
were burned pretty severly. The Whiskey is what we would call a very severe burn.
The fish were evacuated out.
They came onto station, we set up an isolation room, temporary holding for the Whiskey, due to the short turn around time.
Survival of the Whiskey fish has been very good. We're just over 90% survival. And the Spruce Creek fish has been excellent, we're at 100% survival
from what came in. Both lineages are doing well, they're growing well. Our ultimately plan for these species is for broodstock development. So we're going to take these fish and
eventually make our broodstocks out of them, but in the Whiskey, we actually ended up with so many Whiskey fish, that as soon as the snowmelt is gone
and the runoff, we can reaccess a stream. There's a renovated stream that was available; we'll move a portion of those Whiskey fish back to the wild, next spring.
And then, of course, as more streams get renovated, of deemed appropriate for this lineage, we might be able to move a few more of these wild fish to these various streams.