Potential for Introduction of Three Species of Nonnative Fishes into Central Arizona via the Central Arizona Project: A Literature Review and Analysis

摘要

The CAP (Central Arizona Project) is designed to deliver up to 2,200,000 acre-feet per year of allocated Colorado River water to central and southern Arizona for agricultural, municipal, and industrial use. CAP water would be stored in enlarged Lake Pleasant, northwest of Phoenix, and behind Granite Reef Diversion Dam on the Salt River, for later use. Fish will be pumped from Lake Havasu during operation of CAP and enter central Arizona receiving waters. Water quality changes are also expected. The report documents life history characteristics of three fish species, water quality aspects of CAP source and receiving waters, the existing fisheries of CAP source and receiving waters, physical features of pumping plants, and some life history phenomena of the southern bald eagle.