Private John Allen National Fish Hatchery

A fish hatchery in Tupelo, Mississippi named after its Congressional representative who gave a speech noting that “…thousands and millions of unborn fish are clamoring…for an opportunity to be hatched at the Tupelo hatchery…” is being restored and making history. The Private John Allen National...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biologists were looking for evidence to confirm that their efforts to return this darter species to the creek had been successful. They found it.

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Alligator gars are one of the largest freshwater fishes in North America, the largest freshwater fish in the Mississippi River Valley, and the apex predator in that system.

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Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to designate critical habitat for the pearl darter, a small fish native to the Pascagoula River system of Mississippi and the Pearl River system of Mississippi and Louisiana. Pearl darters continue to survive in the Pascagoula River system but...