The Gila River Indian Community, with 20,000 enrolled members, is the largest tribe in the United States to agree to per capita distributions, Maisonet said.

Gila chubs were released into a pond at Historic Canoa Ranch south of Tucson Tuesday in hopes of establishing a refuge population of the protected fish.

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