But now, suddenly, the squawfish is so important.

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Until 1999, when the American Fisheries Society officially changed the common name to pikeminnow, the four species of this genus were known as squawfish.

The Sacramento pikeminnow (also known as Sacramento squawfish) is a large cyprinid fish of California.

Colorado squawfish (pikeminnows - Ptychocheilus spp.)

First known in western science by the common name Columbia River Dace, the four species all became lumped under the offensive name "squawfish."

It is now being invoked in drives to save the squawfish in Colorado and the spotted owl in the Pacific Northwest.

In 2001, American ichthyologists adopted a new name for the jewfish, the Goliath grouper, citing the precedent of an earlier change, from squawfish to pikeminnow.

Squawfish or pikeminnows are cyprinid fish of the genus Ptychocheilus consisting of four species native to western North America.

In 1999, the American Fisheries Society adopted "pikeminnow" as the name it recommends, because Native Americans considered "squawfish" offensive.

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service stopped the project a year ago, citing possible danger to the squawfish and razorback suckers, another type of fish.

Not all fish have suffered from the modifications to the river; the northern pikeminnow (formerly known as the squawfish) thrives in the warmer, slower water created by the dams.

Four are endemic (ecology) and endangered species: Colorado pikeminnow (formerly Colorado squawfish), razorback sucker, bonytail chub, and humpback chub.

The Paynes Creek behind Dales Station flows year round and spawns trout, salmon, smallmouth bass, Sacramento suckers, squawfish, crayfish, and more species of fish.

Among these intruders are carp and catfish that compete with and prey on endangered natives like the humpback and bony-tailed chubs, the Colorado squawfish and the razorback sucker.

In the lower Palmer Creek populate carp, goldfish, largescale sucker, chiselmouth, redside shiner, peamouth chub, northern squawfish, sculpin, dace and Pacific lamprey.

Separated by chasms, clinging to shelves of exposed rock, or making their living in roaring rivers, they evolved into unique species like the Colorado squawfish, a minnow that can reach nearly six feet in length.

They range from large to tiny, from obscure to well-known; the list includes species of minnows and killifish, the paddlefish, the Colorado squawfish and two-thirds of all species of North American sturgeon.

The new slimmed-down version of the project would divert only 14.5 percent of the Animas River's annual flow, presumably not enough to disturb two rare fish species - the Colorado squawfish and the razorback sucker.

He was quoted as saying that a subspecies of red squirrel was holding up construction of a $200 million telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona and that 16 squawfish had stopped a needed water project in the Southwest.

Three additional species of native fish were present historically: Sacramento perch, last collected in 1960; squawfish, last collected in 1905; and while prickly sculpin have not been collected recently, they may still be present in the upper tributaries.

Fish species in Lake Berryessa include bluegill, brown trout, channel catfish, chinook salmon, green sunfish, kokanee, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, rainbow trout, spotted bass, white catfish Sacramento squawfish and landlocked steelhead.

But environmentalists have vowed to wage a court battle to stop the project, citing a peril to the endangered Colorado squawfish, a long, slender species that began dying when dams slowed the Colorado River's flow and caused water temperatures to fluctuate.

Within a few minutes a strong strike almost jerked the rod out of my hands, but the fish came in like an old boot; it turned out to be a fairly large squawfish (Ptychocheilus oregonensis) that, when weighed later, scaled five and a half pounds.

These fish are edible, but bony; this one would do for supper if I couldn't hook into a trout or two, but if my luck was good, Yukon, who liked any kind of fish, bones and all, provided he got it raw, would dine on squawfish on his own.