Thursday, June 24, 2010

One of the biggest fish kills in history of Endangered Species Act

by quaoar

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a notice of violation and is seeking a $2.9 million fine from the city of Birmingham in Alabama for a 2008 incident in which city workers killed off more than half the population of a small endangered fish.

The fish kill resulted in the deaths of 11,760 watercress darters and injury to 8,900 other darters.



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