Wild Appalachia: Endangered Candy Darter

Wild Appalachia features the Candy Darter, an endangered species native to the upper headwaters of the Gauley, Greenbrier and New Rivers. bit.ly/3LSEoDX
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[@chrisrusso4512]

I live in the region, I never knew there were fish like this in the water I went tubing in. So unique

[@jughead8988]

I live in South East Kentucky and today my daughter, granddaughters and I went fishing. I noticed one of these buzzing around in the rocks. I started paying attention and there was thousands of them! I've been fishing that waterway for 45 years and that's the first time I've ever noticed them.

[@TheJTTaylor000]

I just returned home from a trout fishing vacation in the NC mountains. It’s a two hour drive for me. So, I’m up there a lot. Every stream I go to the rocks are covered in a dark brown sediment. It’s sad.

[@user-gf7yr6nl7g]

Mountain top removal and high wall mining has sterilized all the watersheds around them just tell the hole true about it.

[@Marcummc1]

Sling a couple of those in the Ohio and they’ll start reproducing like sea sponges