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Monday, November 02, 2009
Gila Trout To Be Released in Pinaleno Mountains
Associated Press
SAFFORD, Ariz. — The Arizona Game and Fish Department plans to release threatened Gila trout into a creek in the Pinaleno Mountains near Safford this week.
A helicopter is scheduled to bring the fish in a container to Frye Creek above Frye Reservoir on Wednesday morning.
The creek will be the third site in Arizona where Gila trout have been released.
The release will give anglers a chance to catch two different native trout on the same mountain in the future. Hybrid Apache trout inhabit streams on the top of Mt. Graham already.
The Gila trout will come from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Mora National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center in New Mexico.
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