FISHES
Roanoke Logperch Stocking by TR Russ, Foothills Region Aquatic Wildlife Diversity Coordinator
Top Right: A propagated juvenile Roanoke logperch before being released into the Mayo River. Center: Numerous partners joined NCWRC biologist to stock Roanoke Logperch in the Mayo River at Mayo River State Park. Right: NCWRC Biologist TR Russ and Rockingham County Tourism Manager Lindsay Pegg release Roanoke Logperch into the Mayo River. sity program is tasked with conservation, moni- toring, and management of nongame fish, mollusks, and crayfish. Since 2015, one primary goal of the program has been to re-establish Roa- noke Logperch (RLP), Percina rex , populations in the upper sections of the Dan and Mayo rivers in North Carolina. The “King of the Darters” is worthy of our efforts in NC. Stocking Roanoke Logperch will add to the redundancy of Dan River populations, decrease the chances of extinction, and aid in the federal de-listing of the species. Since the Fall of 2023, with partnerships through Piedmont Land Conservancy and Mayo River State Park, 485 Roanoke Logperch have been stocked in the Upper Mayo River via the NC Programmatic Safe Harbor Agreement. On November 1, 2024, NCWRC and Mayo River State Park stocked 156 juveniles through access- ing state park property. The event was well attended by the public and several people were able to see the release of a federally endangered fish. Roanoke Logperch have been absent from the upper Mayo River since the construction of Avalon and Washington Mill dams circa 1890s. T he North Carolina Wildlife Resources Com- mission’s (NCWRC) Aquatic Wildlife Diver-
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