Cape Fear Shiner Augmentation – Part II
Submitted by Bryn H. Tracy and Brena K. Jones Reprinted from the Summer 2023 Issue of the Newsletter of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Fisheries Society On the … Read more
Bringing Back the Natives: Reintroduction of Three Sucker Species in the Upper French Broad River
Luke Etchison, Dylan Owensby, and Chantelle Rondel North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program, Waynesville, NC The French Broad River (Map 1) is one of the oldest rivers … Read more
Distribution of American Brook Lamprey, Lethenteron appendix, in North Carolina
Fritz Rohde1, Bryn H. Tracy2, and Michael Fisk3 1Wilmington, NC; 2Apex, NC; 3North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Program, Mebane, NC The American Brook Lamprey, Lethenteron appendix (Dekay, … Read more
North Carolina’s New River Basin Fish Fauna – A Foster Basin for Wanted and Unwanted Nonindigenous Species?
By the NCFishes.com Team The New River basin, in the extreme northwest corner of North Carolina, is one of the smallest river basins in the state with a drainage area … Read more
Update on the Fourspine Stickleback, Apeltes quadracus (Family Gasterosteidae), in North Carolina
By the NCFishes.com Team How did this fish, the smallest member of the Stickleback family, get here? And when? As written in our previous blog on sticklebacks (https://ncfishes.com/is-north-carolina-too-far-south-for-sticklebacks/), Dr. Hugh … Read more
Is North Carolina Too Far South for Sticklebacks?
By the NCFishes.comTeam In eastern North America, the family Gasterosteidae, known as sticklebacks, is a small family of five species commonly found in shallow brackish inlets, calm, heavily vegetated marshes … Read more
North Carolina’s Imperiled Fish Fauna – A Photographic Essay
This is the first, hopefully, in a series of blogs on North Carolina’s imperiled freshwater fish fauna. There are 258 described and undescribed species of freshwater fishes in North Carolina … Read more
Paddlefish Mystery in Western North Carolina
Paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, is a unique and ancient fish species with no close relatives in North America (Figure 1). This prehistoric monster has been part of the Upper Tennessee River … Read more
Lake Sturgeon Restoration in the French Broad River, North Carolina
Due to habitat degradation, barriers to migration, and pollution, Lake Sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens have likely been extirpated from North Carolina and much of the Southeast United States for over 75 … Read more
Restoration of the Spotfin Chub, a Federal and State Threatened Species
Spotfin Chub, Cyprinella monacha (=Erimonax monachus), is a federally Threatened species that has declined across its historical range primarily due to habitat degradation. It is a crevice spawner that requires … Read more