WPLN: Shock conservation
Representatives from Conservation Fisheries and Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency capture endangered Boulder Darters in preparation for Harms Mill dam removal
Photo by Tasha A.F. Lemley
In preparation for the Harms Mill Dam removal, multiple agencies grouped up to temporarily relocate some federally endangered species, including a small green/grey fish known as the boulder darter.
For this non-narrated feature I pitched, reported, produced and photographed, I put on some muck boots and headed to the dam with biologist Andrew Zimmerman — field coordinator with Conservation Fisheries in Knoxville, Tenn. In this audio postcard, biologists use electricity to corral and capture the three-inch fish.