Energy & environment · 01/07/2004

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designates Critical Habitat for Endangered and Threatened Mussels in Mobile River Basin

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has designated 26 river segments in the Mobile River Basin as critical habitat for 11 endangered and threatened freshwater mussels, including the fine-lined pocketbook, orange-nacre mucket, and Alabama moccasinshell, under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.