Rare minnows rescued from Texas river amid drought

Yahoo ^ | 9/16/11 | Betsy Blaney - AP

[NormsRevenge]

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Wading through a muddy river bed to reach shallow pools of water, wildlife biologists scooped up hundreds of minnows Friday in one of the first rescues of fish threatened by the state's worst drought in decades.

The scientists collected smalleye shiners and sharpnose shiners from the Brazos River — about 2,300 on Thursday and 800 Friday. The fish, which are found only in the Brazos and nowhere else in the world,..

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With the water drying up in the drought, the minnows don't have the 100 miles of river they need to reproduce. ..

A team rescued 110 federally threatened Arkansas River shiners and 60 peppered chubs from the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle near the New Mexico border last week and took them to a federal fish hatchery in Oklahoma.

[chooseascreennamepat]

“With the water drying up in the drought, the minnows don’t have the 100 miles of river they need to reproduce. .. “

I bet they would reproduce in my 40 gallon aquarium.

[WePledge]

Now if God kills off the minnows is it still Bush’s fault?

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Thank goodness! Now I can sleep tonight.

[goat granny]

And for God sakes don’t forget the gas mask....LOL

[goat granny]

The trick is to kill all the minnows you see. They are then extinct and not endangered..Land and water is safe for us humans instead of a stupid hunk of bait...