The team of 10 gill-counters found more than 20 species of fish along a roughly 300-meter (984 feet) stretch including redeye bass, Mobile logperches, Coosa darters, Coosa shiners and tricolor shiners — few of which most local residents could identify themselves in or out of the water.
Keeping such streams healthy is a continual effort and this is evidence that it is working, although not a reason to forget there are other area streams not as healthy or biodiverse as they once were.
“It’s very rare to have that many (species) in a single stream,” said a DNR spokesman. The goal should be have such statements always add a phrase: “… except in Floyd County.”
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