TENNESSEE BIOLOGISTS FIND ENDANGERED MUSSELS IN CUMBERLAND RIVER
As an aquatic biologist with the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA), Mark Fagg once snorkeled face to face with catfish as long as your  arm.   But that didn't match the thrill he experienced last week when he plucked  a pair of freshwater mussels from the bottom of the Big South Fork of the  Cumberland River just four miles from the Kentucky line.  The first mussel — a species commonly known as the elktoe — had never  been documented in the Big South Fork, and the second mussel was a federally  listed endangered species called the tan riffleshell.

Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune

http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/10/10182001/krt_45287.asp

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