LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Wildlife officials are just weeks away from turning the water on at the Lake Mead Fish Hatchery, a facility that had to abandon raising trout as water levels dropped at the nation’s largest reservoir.
Now, the hatchery is refitted to bolster numbers of two endangered fish native in the Colorado River — the “rarest of the rare” bonytail chub, and the razorback sucker.
Amos Rehm, a Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist, has been working on the project, raising the fish from larvae to sizes large enough to release back into the river. The target is 12 inches…