Recovery of the Snail Darter Celebrated

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

                                                             (Photo: USFWS)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and dozens of conservation partners recently celebrated the snail darter’s recovery and removal from the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife at Seven Islands Birding State Park. The snail darter is the fifth fish species delisted due to recovery in the country and the first in the eastern United States, marking an important milestone in ESA's success in supporting biodiversity.

After an extensive review of the best scientific and commercial information available, the Service found this small freshwater fish -- native to the Tennessee River watershed in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee -- is no longer in danger of extinction, now or in the foreseeable future.

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Threatened No Longer - TVA

Tiny snail darter makes a big comeback thanks to a decades-long lift from federal biologists.