Legal Opinion
Alabama-Tombigbee Rivers Coalition v. Kempthorne
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 8, 2007No. 05-17164PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Two fish, or not two fish? That is the question. More specifically, are the Alabama sturgeon and the shovelnose sturgeon separate species? The answer lies primarily in the field of taxonomy, which one observer has noted “is described sometimes as a science and sometimes as an art, but really it’s a battleground.” Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything 437 (2003). The battle over the Alabama sturgeon has been more like the Thirty Years War. A scientist first classified this small freshwater fish found in the Mobile River Basin of Alabama as endangered in 1976.…
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