by AMAZONAS Magazine | Dec 16, 2021 | Freshwater
Second-generation captive-bred Pygmy Sculpins, Cottus paulus, put on quite a show for the aquarists at Knoxville, Tennessee’s champion of U.S. native freshwater fish conservation, Conservation Fisheries. via Conservation Fisheries “Yeah, I know we’ve...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Jan 5, 2018 | Freshwater, News & Notes
via US FWS January 3, 2018 The Barrens Plateau is home to a beautiful, iridescent fish that rarely grows longer than four inches and is found in only a few creeks and springs in four Tennessee counties. That little fish is now in trouble, and the U.S. Fish and...
by John Tullock | Sep 17, 2008 | AMAZONAS - John Tullock, Freshwater
Among my favorite native fish species, the various logperches rank highly. A closely related group of large darters, the four species found closest to my home share an elongated snout and use it to flip over small stones in order to feed on the invertebrates found...
by John Tullock | Jul 21, 2008 | AMAZONAS - John Tullock, Freshwater, News & Notes
Here in the Southeast, we are sweltering through another year of drought. Some parts of the Cherokee and Pisgah National Forests, lying just east of where I live, are experiencing record low precipitation totals. To the west, the broad, flat Cumberland and Barrens...
