A pest fish which is not native to the area and lives all over the world. Some geniuses in our all-wise FedGuv decreed it to be worthy of more preservation than the farm land around it.
They look like they’d be tasty, fried.
And they’d be easier to catch if they weren’t covered up by all that farmers’ water.
Species go away all the time. BFD. Get over it, Kalifornia.
Stuff like this is what lead me to conclude that environmentalists hate people.
A minnow is more important to them than the people who live and work there.
My answer is a dozen or so Northern Pike and a few Muskies.