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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection to
« on: February 14, 2018, 05:04:54 PM »
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/barrens-topminnow-01-03-2018.php

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection today for the Barrens topminnow, a small fish found only in central Tennessee in clear, spring-fed streams on the Barrens Plateau.

Just five populations of the highly endangered fish survive in the wild southeast of Nashville, where the species is threatened by drought, pollution and predation by non-native mosquitofish. At last count there were fewer than 400 total individuals.

I think I used to catch these in a seine and use them for bait way back when....
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Re: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection to
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2018, 06:40:22 PM »
Good appetizer with fried bald eagle  ;D
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Re: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection to
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2018, 09:12:20 PM »
That is one good looking minnow.  If they are so endangered, and special, why not just breed them?  Take some of that Kayak money and just make new ones? 
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Re: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection to
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2018, 04:46:14 PM »
The aquarium in Chattanooga has started to raise them. The Northern studfish is related to them and are in most of the creeks around Nashville.
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