A species of tiny fish that once flourished in the U.S. South's Pearl River is being reintroduced there after disappearing 50 years ago
A species of tiny fish that once flourished in a river running hundreds of miles from central Mississippi into southeastern Louisiana is being reintroduced to the Pearl River after disappearing 50 years ago.
And even though pollution and other threats to habitat remain today within the Pearl River, more than 400 miles long, officials say the 1972 federal Clean Water Act has helped make it cleaner. Clean enough, in fact, that Mississippi and the federal government wildlife experts say there are signs that the pearl darter may be able to thrive there again.“This site has some of the highest species diversity in the entire Pearl River,” said Matt Wagner, a U.S.
The presence of those species bodes well for the return of the pearl darter to the Pearl River, Wagner said.
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