Once official, it will become only the second fish to leave the protection of the Endangered Species Act. A tiny fish just got a big and slightly overdue victory. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Farmers and ranchers campaigned for years to persuade the Fish and Wildlife Service to drop endangered species protection for a tiny fish found in the streams of northeastern California and southern ...

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows Modoc suckers, found only in desert creeks of southern Oregon and Northern California. The service has proposed taking the tiny ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced the removal of the Modoc sucker, a fish native to the Pit River basin in southern Oregon and northeastern California, from protection ...

The Modoc sucker (Catostomus microps), a small fish with a range limited to northeast California and south-central Oregon, was listed as endangered (pdf) in 1985. A recovery plan for the species was ...