Lawsuit Looms Over Tiny Rare Fish in Drought-Stricken West

Lawsuit Looms Over Tiny Rare Fish in Drought-Stricken West

By SCOTT SONNER

Source: Associated Press

11/23/2022

Credit: Spenser Heaps/The Daily Herald via AP

Conservationists have notified U.S. wildlife officials that they will sue over delinquent decisions related to protections for two rare fish species that are threatened by groundwater pumping in the drought-stricken West.

The Center for Biological Diversity sent a formal notice of intent to sue the Fish and Wildlife Service last week over the Fish Lake Valley tui chub near the California-Nevada line and the least chub in southwest Utah.