Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered

A Tiny, 'Endangered' Fish Delayed a Dam's Construction in the 1970s. Now, Scientists Say the Snail Darter Isn't So Rare After All
Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee described an “awful beast” in 1979. That beast—which he also called “the bane of my existence, the nemesis of my golden years, the bold perverter of the Endangered Species Act”—was none other than the snail darter,
Snail darter revisited: Famous fish that halted a dam's construction is not endangered after all
A team of ecologists, evolutionary biologists and resource managers affiliated with several institutions across the U.S. has found that the snail darter, which was famously used by environmentalists in the 1970s to block construction of a damn,
The Endangered Fish That Halted a Major Dam Was Never Endangered After All
The two-inch snail darter became a symbol for regulatory overreach in the 1970s. New research suggests the fish was not an endangered species — or even a species.
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This odd fish halted construction of a massive dam in 1973. Turns out, it isn’t real | Opinion
The snail darter is not a thing. It was just a common perch, say scientists. Fraud or bad science? From David Mastio:
This Tiny Fish’s Mistaken Identity Halted a Dam’s Construction
Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee in the 1970s, is a genetic match of a different fish.
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"There Is, Technically, No Snail Darter," But the Snail Darter Still Delayed the Tellico Dam
In the 1970s, the discovery of the Tennessee snail darter in the Tellico River was used to halt completion of the Tellico Dam under the Endangered Species Act (a tale many law students learn in ...
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Snail Darter Swims Off Endangered List
WASHINGTON— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today removed the snail darter from the endangered species list because the fish has recovered. Thanks to collaborative conservation efforts since it ...
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Fish at center of key conservation fight not a distinct species after all
In the late-1970s, a small freshwater fish known as the snail darter made history when its newly acquired status as an endangered species helped to temporarily block construction of the Tellico ...
An environmental disaster is looming in SE Oklahoma because of a power project | Opinion
Plans for facilities to send electricity to Texas would harm Oklahoma's environment and threaten endangered species.