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Why the NCFishes.com Team Think North Carolina’s Lampreys are Cool

November 20, 2024August 27, 2024 by Bryn Tracy

The NCFishes.com Team has reported on North Carolina’s lampreys twice in our blogs — Distribution of American Brook Lamprey, Lethenteron appendix, in North Carolina (January 30, 2023) and Lamprey (Family … Read more

Categories Fish ID, Outreach Tags Lampreys, Petromyzontidae Leave a comment

Freshwater Drum Reintroductions in the French Broad River

December 29, 2023 by Luke Etchison

In North Carolina, the Freshwater Drum, Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque, 1819 (Figure 1), is indigenous to the western Mountain river basins where until recently, had been known from only a handful … Read more

Categories Fish ID, Outreach, Uncategorized Tags Aplodinotus grunniens, French Broad River basin, Freshwater Drum, North Carolina, Reintroductions Leave a comment

Face-to-Face with Fish – Blue Ridge Snorkel Trail Celebrates Kickoff

August 21, 2023 by Bryn Tracy

Written by Holly Kays, Smoky Mountain News, Waynesville, NC, Wednesday, August 09, 2023 The Little Tennessee River isn’t deep as it flows through the patchwork Needmore Game Lands near the … Read more

Categories Collecting Trip, Outreach, Uncategorized Tags Blue Ridge Snorkel Trail, Freshwater Snorkeling; Little Tennessee River, Macon County Leave a comment

‘Hard To Believe’: Downstream Fish Populations Explode Following Mill Closure

August 7, 2023August 3, 2023 by Bryn Tracy

Written by Holly Kays, Smoky Mountain News, Waynesville, NC, Wednesday, August 02, 2023 When the impending closure of Canton’s paper mill was announced in March, conservation professionals predicted a swift … Read more

Categories Collecting Trip, Outreach, Uncategorized Tags FIsh Community Recovery, Haywood County, Paper Mill, Pigeon River Leave a comment

Cape Fear Shiner Augmentation – Part II

August 3, 2023August 2, 2023 by Bryn Tracy

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

Categories Collecting Trip, Outreach, Uncategorized Tags Augmentation, Cape Fear Shiner, Deep River, Miniellus mekistocholas, North Carolina, Propagation Leave a comment

Biologists Continue Sicklefin Redhorse Recovery Effort in the Little Tennessee River Watershed

October 28, 2021 by Luke Etchison

A Candidate Conservation Agreement (CCA) was finalized in 2015 for the undescribed Sicklefin Redhorse, Moxostoma sp., and was signed by primary partners: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), North Carolina … Read more

Categories Collecting Trip, Outreach Tags Moxostoma sp. "Sicklefin" Redhorse, North Carolina, Restoration, Sicklefin Redhorse Leave a comment

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