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 Matt Pedersen | Dec 14, 2017 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
Discovering some footage of this rare cichlid being spawned and reared by Canadian aquarist Jim Cumming inspired us to take a closer look at this fish. Cichlid enthusiasts know that this family of fishes is all but absent in Asia. Most of us learned long ago about the...
by AMAZONAS Magazine | Sep 23, 2016 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
CITES CoP17, Johannesburg, South Africa, starts tomorrow. This is the 17th Conference of Parties meeting to be held, a meeting which has been held roughly every 2-3 years since the first CoP in 1976. CoP meetings are the time when changes to CITES listings for species...
by Matt Pedersen | Jul 28, 2016 | AMAZONAS - Matt Pedersen, Freshwater
In the forthcoming September/October 2016 issue of AMAZONAS Magazine, we introduce our readers to the plight of the Bermuda Killifish (Fundulus bermudae) and the Lower’s Lake Killifish (F. relictus), both Bermudian endemics, and both considered highly endangered...
