How the US stopped its fisheries from collapsing

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12. Yes. Outside of Texas, our Colorado is often called

the Texas Colorado, but it is just Colorado, here. It's a tough little river with "headwaters" in very arrid areas of the state along the NM border. It is heavily damed, chiefly as result of the WPA, for power, urban water use and recreation. There is (was) reliance on large, timely releases for rice farmers. That is just no longer sustainable. Currently, the Lake Travis reservoir created by Mansfield Dam (Austin's chief water source) is 40' below normal levels, and had been thusly for at least 3 yrs. Hard to even fish it anymore.