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

[jmcenanly]

Is that the mature fish? It looks like an immature trout

[SGCOS]

Holy mackerel!!
Build a dam!! Flood the valley!! it's alive!!!

(and hide the tartar sauce)

[PIF]

ESA will shut down all river traffic and all human activity withing 50 miles of the river. Its for the children, you know.

[bgill]

82 is old for a fish.

[Flick Lives]

That was until fish management crews captured two this fall during Ohio River electrofish bass surveys.

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Electrofish bass survey? That means those two were in for a shock.

[mmichaels1970]

This is a 4 inch fish BTW.

I had a two-footer on my line just last week. Sadly he got away just before I could pull him aboard.

[mmichaels1970]

Is that the mature fish? It looks like an immature trout

To add to your conjecture:

"These were the first captures in Ohio since 1939 when Milton B. Trautman captured seven in the Walhonding River

Something fishy going on with this story?

[mmichaels1970]

82 is old for a fish.

Exactly. That's like 541.2 in "goldfish years".

[JBW1949]

Shades of the Snail Darter in East Tennessee.....

[mmichaels1970]

Electrofish bass survey? That means those two were in for a shock.

NOW it's officially Friday!

[gundog]

Yup. Juvenile trout.

[pas]

Where could they have come from. (two were captured in the Ohio River in the fall.) Rivers stop at state lines.

[EVO X]

I had a two-footer on my line just last week.

Depending on the fish, losing a 2 foot fish might not be a big deal. A 24 inch walleye is nice, but nothing to write home about. A 24 inch northern pike is jail bait in many locations..

[EVO X]

I had a two-footer on my line just last week.

Depending on the fish, losing a 2 foot fish might not be a big deal. A 24 inch walleye is nice, but nothing to write home about. A 24 inch northern pike is jail bait in many locations..

[higgmeister]

I didn’t miss it much.

[dsrtsage]

“OUt here in CaCaLand this sort of “discovery” means that a once common critter is now put on the endangered species list”

In Nevada we periodically get plague level hatches of mormon crickets. They can get so bad that you can get build ups of smashed crickets on highways that are more slippery than snow. I have always wanted to gather a few jugfulls of these crickets and drop them off on the properties of super leftists in places like malibu and report them to the endangered species people

[Trillian]

[Verginius Rufus]

82-year-old fish. That’s almost as old as the 85-year-old gecko in the GEICO commercial.

[353FMG]

>> it’s a tragedy and the fault of humans when an animal or plant goes extinct.<<

They become wonderful fossil fuel.

[353FMG]

>> it’s a tragedy and the fault of humans when an animal or plant goes extinct.<<

They become wonderful fossil fuel.