from RiverCurrents Online
RESTOCKING ENDANGERED FISH: Conservation Fisheries, the only private
facility in the United States devoted to the captive propagation and
restoration of rare nongame fish, last week made their annual release of
yellowfin madtom, Smoky madtom, duskytail darter and spotfin chub in Abrams
Creek in Tennessee. As reports the News-Sentinel (5/23), in 1957 biologists
deliberately killed all fish between Abrams Falls and the mouth of the creek
with a toxic chemical in an effort to improve trout fishing in Great Smoky
Mountains National Park. Almost half of the 63 species have since
repopulated the stream, though the four listed above have not. Reintroducing
these species has been a ³flagship² project of the group for the last 10
years, and has been funded by Endangered Species funds. The Tellico River,
lower French Broad and the Holston River above Knoxville might be among
future restocking targets of the group.
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