In Georgia we have the Shoal Bass, native only to the Flint, Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee rivers.

I think this is an impotant discovery. It shows the importants of "not all fish are alike", as well as the fact that we still have so much to learn about the species and possibly un-discovered species of fish out there. This may help as ammo to get the government to rethink issuing mining permits, or allowing other actions that could destroy fish or unknown fish in waterways and estuaries, in Alaska for example. Tight lines everyone.

in the Chotawhachee a lot of the fish like carpsucker and the mentioned Choctaw bass are genetically different because of the isolated location of the river. and @flyfisher48 they have to be genetically identified because no physical feature has been identified to tell them a part, but in the process of discovering the range of the Choctaw bass they never found any spotted bass in the same river as the Choctaw. and @buckstopper there are some creek in the area but the Choctaw where far more dominant in the area Seminole are mostly creek "refugees" from the creeks during the Indian removal times and they also live on the Florida peninsula