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Small Fish Under Threat, Says Center For Biological Diversity

The Center for Biological Diversity is threatening to sue over a small fish that lives in Nevada, Utah and Arizona, that it says is under threat.

In a release, the group wants the federal government to protect Virgin River spinedace, a small fish, better.

The fish is currently listed as threatened, but the Center for Biological Diversity alleges the federal government has not done enough to protect the fish.

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The group says more than half of the spinedace's habitat, which is throughout southeastern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northeastern Arizona, has disappeared, in large part due to increased growth in Washington County, Utah.

Casey Morell is the coordinating producer of Nevada Public Radio's flagship broadcast State of Nevada and one of the station's midday newscast announcers. (He's also been interviewed by Jimmy Fallon, whatever that's worth.)