
ENV020-00159
The staff of Conservation Fisheries in Knoxville, Tennessee, studies, tags and fin clips two examples of the rarest fish in the United States, the Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi). These fish are part of “The Desparate Dozen”, a list of critically imperilled fish here in the southeast. (IUCN: Vulnerable; US: Endangered)
Keywords
- Biologists
- Conasauga logperch
- Conservation
- federally endangered
- fin clip
- Fish
- Freshwater
- indoors
- Knoxville
- llight table
- Percina jenkinsi
- rare
- Tennessee
- three humans
- two animals
- vulnerable
- Workers
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