http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2018/barrens-topminnow-01-03-2018.phpNASHVILLE, 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....