The anti-fish brigade ultimately triumphed in 1979, however, by adding a rider that exempted the Tellico Dam from the ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed the snail darter from the Endangered Species List on Oct. 4, 2022, saying the small fish in the Tennessee River watershed is no longer in danger of ...

Decades after the Tellico Dam battle, the fish formerly known as the snail darter is thriving. It left the endangered species list in 2020. “This is still a success story,” Mr. Simmons said.

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.

The fish gained fame in the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case of Tennessee Valley Authority vs. Hill. Conservationists sued to stop the Tellico Dam near Lenoir City, from being completed because it ...

The award recognizes anglers who catch trophy-sized fish of different species after Jan. 1, 2019, according to DNR. Each milestone is marked with a certificate and a limited edition FishMaryland ...

Conservationists, farmers, the Cherokee Tribe, and others wanted protection for the little fish and the Little Tennessee River habitat during the construction of the controversial Tellico Dam.

In 2016, citing falling power prices, EWEB said it would build and operate a system to "trap and haul" fish below the Trail Bridge Dam rather than build a fish ladder as it had said it would do in ...

Four environmental groups have accused San Luis Obispo County of operating Lopez Dam in a way that harms multiple endangered species, especially steelhead trout. The groups said the county ...

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 Dam in ...