RE: NANFA-- Maryland darter

Crail, Todd (tcrail_at_northshores.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:35:52 -0500

Because a marketing/PR company/department wrote the article, not a scientist?
:)

Whatever gets people's attention, I say. I'd never have read about the
Maryland darter if someone didn't irritate your good skeptical senses :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Rose Lawn Museum
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:11 AM
To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
Subject: NANFA-- Maryland darter

I found a site that talks about the Maryland darter (Etheostoma sellare).
What's unusual is that they called it the "world's rarest fish." Doesn't
that seem like an odd claim? I don't doubt that it's rare, but how can they
say that it is the rarest? Check it out at
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/mddarter.html Any of you MD folks ever
observed this fish?
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