Rare;Tiny Fish Get Help In Survival
Houston Chronicle2012-06-24: Two species of rare minnows have the terrible luck of living only in the Brazos River. The longest river in Texas is shackled by dams, siphoned for use by cities and farms and plagued by toxic golden algae, a combination that has spoiled most of the historical habitat for smalleye and sharpnose shiners. So, when the state’s worst drought in decades reduced the Upper Brazos to isolated pools last fall, Texas biologists took the unusual step of pulling thousands of the tiny fish from the water and moving them to a nearby hatchery for safety. The shiners returned to the river recently,
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