Stream channelization, dam construction, and impoundments change the water flow, temperature, and quality to which the Topeka shiner is specifically adapted. Dams also prevent shiners from migrating ...

Today, thanks largely to reservoirs that have flooded, dewatered, fragmented, or otherwise directly altered considerable sections of formerly precious shiner habitat, the quick little fish swims in ...

Steve Meismer, Local Coordinator for the Virgin River Program, explained that the barrier is designed to prevent the spread of the Red Shiner fish, an invasive species that poses a significant ...