Fish Believed To Be Extinct in Ohio Found Alive After 82 Years

https://www.newsweek.com ^ | 1/12/22 AT 10:36 AM EST | BY ANDERS ANGLESEY

[Red Badger]

Afish long believed to be extinct in Ohio for 82 years has been rediscovered in the state, government wildlife officials proudly declared.

The small longhead darter was thought to have been last captured in the Buckeye State in 1939. For decades the species was considered extirpated in Ohio, meaning the fish was extinct locally but could be found in other locations.

In a Facebook post shared on January 6, the ODW said: "Who dis [this]? Believe it or not it's a longhead darter.

"Why are we so excited? This striking creature, native to Ohio, was thought to be extirpated from the state. That was until fish management crews captured two this fall during Ohio River electrofish bass surveys.

"These were the first captures in Ohio since 1939 when Milton B. Trautman captured seven in the Walhonding River, a principal tributary of the Muskingum River in east-central Ohio."

Longhead darters can be identified by their bright olive-yellow scales and the dark spot at the base of their tail fins. They can reach 4.5-5 inches in length and are considered to be a small to medium-sized fish.

But the Ohio Division of Wildlife (ODW) declared the plucky little fish was no longer extinct in the state after two were captured in the Ohio River in the fall.

[Lowell1775]

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Fish Believed To Be Extinct in Ohio Found Alive After 82 Years
https://www.newsweek.com ^ | 1/12/22 AT 10:36 AM EST | BY ANDERS ANGLESEY
Posted on 1/14/2022, 12:15:55 PM by Red Badger

[griswold3]

Call Guinness World Records!

[Hot Tabasco]

I did but some Sasquatch is disputing the record......

[griswold3]

😂

[SgtHooper]

Sautee me up a dozen darters in butter, with spuds, buttered toast, and cole slaw—$3.95!

What a deal! :-)

[Pontiac]

It is not extinct if it lives somewhere.

You have to get pretty deep in the article before you read that.

It hardly unusual for a species to move back into territory that has be vacated by that species if that area again becomes hospitable to its successful breeding.

It happens all the time.

This is more unusual.

Extinct Fossil Fish' Dating Back 420 Million Years Found Alive in Madagascar

[muggs]

Is ths same Darter that caused the land grab in Darby. They wanted to take farm land and turn it into some wet land.

[minnesota_bound]

Shoot... I have been using these as bait!

[muggs]

Was this the fish, where they wanted to take farm land and turn it into wet lands.

[SunkenCiv]

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[BradyLS]

Stop ‘lectrocutin’ ‘em.

[Adder]

World hide and seek champion..

Well yeah...cuz it darts...

[Hegemony Cricket]

The fish was heard to say, “The reports of my untimely demise were ‘somewhat’ exaggerated...”