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The Middle Rio Grande Endangered Species Collaborative Program (Program) is a collaborative effort consisting of 18 stakeholders including federal, state, and local governmental entities; Indian tribes and pueblos; and non-governmental organizations representing diverse interests working to protect and improve the status of endangered listed species along the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) by implementing certain recovery activities to benefit those species and their associated habitats and, simultaneously, to protect existing and future water uses while complying with applicable state and federal laws, including Rio Grande compact delivery obligations. “Listed species” means federally listed species under the ESA, with special emphasis on the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow (silvery minnow) and the southwestern willow flycatcher (flycatcher).
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Information not available. Program accomplishments include projects funded for the furtherance of the goals and objectives of the Executive Committee and the Collaborative Long-Term Plan which focuses on beneficial activities for improving the status of the silvery minnow and the flycatcher, and the conservation and contribution to the recovery of both listed species while protecting existing and future water uses within the geographic boundaries of the Program area. In FY2016and FY2017, these activities included: endangered species propagation and augmentation and habitat restoration monitoring.
Fiscal Year 2019: The City of Albuquerque’s Aquatic Conservation Facility (ACF) and the State of New Mexico’s Los Lunas Silvery Minnow Refugium (LLSMR) continue to promote the recovery of the Rio Grande Silvery Minnow in the wild through captive propagation, augmentation, and research. Funding for these facilities comes from several sources including Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, the State of New Mexico, and Reclamation. They are breeding, rearing, and research centers that include indoor and outdoor culture systems and naturalized refugiums. The indoor systems are used for quarantine, breeding, egg hatching, and rearing larvae. The outdoor systems are used for raising larvae to sub-adult age and for holding large numbers of broodstock. The outdoor naturalized refugium are river-like environments with controllable flow, variable depth, variable habitat, and natural substrate.
The University of New Mexico (UNM) has monitored the genetics of the silvery minnow population since 1999. This work includes monitoring silvery minnow bred or reared in captivity and released to the MRG since 2002 when the augmentation program began. UNM continues to genotype all broodstock produced for release in the MRG in the ACF and LLSMR. Under this contract, UNM also examines changes in levels of genetic variability in the wild silvery minnow population and how these changes potentially impacted population viability, and the potential impacts of captive propagation and augmentation on the genetics of silvery minnow wild stock. The silvery minnow genetics database developed by the project was used to develop, parameterize, and evaluate models designed to assist in predicting genetic effects of captive propagation on wild stocks of silvery minnow (under various scenarios) to inform captive propagation and augmentation strategies aimed at species recovery.
Based on recommendations from a peer review panel, Reclamation funded UNM’s development of High-Throughput Markers for silvery minnow. Using cutting-edge technology this project will develop a panel of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) that will allow for an enhanced and rapid assessment of silvery minnow genetic diversity within and among ex situ and in situ populations and develop a sex-specific marker. With these markers available it will be possible to know the genetics of the fish being stocked during augmentation. This project was completed in FY19 and the results will be applied to work into the future.
Silvery minnow genetics monitoring will continued in FY20 and 21. Use of the High-Throughput Markers that have been developed by UNM is started in FY20 through FY21.
FY 2022 accomplishment information is not yet available.
Designated coordination of the collaborative effort consisting of 18 stakeholders including federal, state, and local governmental entities; Indian tribes and pueblos; and non-governmental organizations representing diverse interests working to protect and improve the status of endangered listed species along the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) by implementing certain recovery activities to benefit those species and their associated habitats and, simultaneously, to protect existing and future water uses.
Designated coordination of the collaborative effort consisting of 18 stakeholders including federal, state, and local governmental entities; Indian tribes and pueblos; and non-governmental organizations representing diverse interests working to protect and improve the status of endangered listed species along the Middle Rio Grande (MRG) by implementing certain recovery activities to benefit those species and their associated habitats and, simultaneously, to protect existing and future water uses.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
