The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit
against the National Marine Fisheries Service this week over its denial of
Endangered Species Act protection to the Alabama shad.
The
shad was once so abundant that it supported commercial fisheries in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Indiana and Iowa, but it
is now rarely found in most of its former range. The Alabama shad once occurred in rivers from Florida to Oklahoma, but today only a handful of populations survive including in the Apalachicola River.
In 2010 the Center for Biological Diversity asked that the species by considered for listing under the endangered species act, but the request was rejected even though shad was recognized as a candidate for protection by the Fisheries Service in 1997 but was switched to a “species of concern” in 2004.
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