
ESA001-00260
A pair of vulnerable (IUCN) ashy darters (Etheostoma cinereum), a very rare fish species with a shrinking range in TN and VA, at Conservation Fisheries, a native stream fish breeding center. This fish should be listed as endangered but hasn’t been due to lack of lack of funding and little survey work to determine just how imperiled it is.
Keywords
- animal portrait
- ashy darter
- ashy fish
- black background
- captivity
- cinereum
- Close-up
- Conservation Fisheries
- darter
- darter fish
- etheostoma
- Etheostoma cinereum
- Fish
- full length
- imperiled
- native stream fish
- Pair
- Photo Ark
- Portrait
- rare
- studio
- two fish
- vulnerable
This photo © Joel Sartore 2021. Image usage guidelines

This photo is part of the Photo Ark.