Named for its home on the Barrens Plateau of central Tennessee, the darter is one of the rarest fish in North America ... and increased harmful sediments that destroy the darter’s spawning areas. As a ...

However, the fish were extirpated over much of their range in the last 200 years due to unregulated killing, pollution and dams that blocked spawning migrations. That included the Milwaukee River ...

colorful fish found only in a handful of Tennessee counties. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (CN) – Pointing to its battle against an evasive species and threats posed by climate change, the Fish and Wildlife ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) has spent the winter season stocking waters across the state with trout fish. In December, the TWRA began its annual ...

The fish is found in the Coosa River watershed in northern Alabama, northern Georgia and southeastern Tennessee. It also lives in the Conasauga ... most of its life to small tributaries and seeps to ...