Local officials have said listing the fish as endangered would threaten access to San Antonio's largest water source.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended its deadline to determine whether two aquifer-dwelling catfish species should be listed as endangered, a move that local officials say would threaten San Antonio ’s access to its largest water source. Last August, the federal agency issued a proposed rule to list the toothless blindcat and widemouth blindcat , which live deep in the Edwards Aquifer , under the Endangered Species Act .
Plan to save tiny fish could have ‘enormous’ impact on SAWS, Edwards Aquifer, officials say Federal officials haven’t said what rules could be put in place to protect the fish species, but protections typically include restrictions on what can be done to a species’ habitat. While the Fish and Wildlife Service was initially required to issue a final rule within 12 months of the proposal, the agency said Wednesday that it would delay the decision by six months, with a new deadline next February.
Three types of Guadalupe River mussels added to endangered list However, SAWS officials have disputed that argument, with the utility writing that the Fish and Wildlife Service “does not have a sufficient understanding of how the wells actually work and has made assumptions about how the wells might injure or kill blindcats that are, in fact, inconsistent with the actual functioning of the wells.
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