Across Arizona’s high country, mountain streams are getting a little busier as wildlife crews return Gila trout to their native waters. In October, the Arizona Game and Fish Department and its partners stocked the threatened fish in Chase and Bonita creeks along the Mogollon Rim, to support the species’ recovery. The fish were supplied by the Mora National Fish Hatchery in New Mexico, operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which has been breeding and raising Gila trout since 1999, according to the Game and Fish department.The effort is part of a broader campaign to rebuild populations of Gila trout, which remain classified as threatened under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. … Each individual trout was measured and implanted with a microchip tag before release so an AZGFD biologist can track how the fish grow, survive and disperse throughout the watershed over time.

Other fish restoration news:

• Rocky Mountain PBS (Denver, Colo.): Greenback cutthroat trout are making a comeback in Colorado, but there’s a catch
• Active NorCal (Redding, Calif.): The Upper Trinity hit its salmon quota, so adult chinook fishing is done for the year