The FWS is currently monitoring populations of the Spotfin Chub in the
Tellico River,
between the backwaters of the Tellico Reservoir and the Tellico Ranger
Station, in Monroe County, Tennessee
Range And Population Level:
Once endemic to the Tennessee River drainage in Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, the spotfin's range included
upland-mountain habitats in 4 physiographic provinces encompassing 12
tributary systems: Blue Ridge, Ridge and Valley, Cuumberland Plateau, and
Interior Low Plateau. Presently, it survives in some 166 total km of 4
isolated tributary systems: the Duck, Little Tennessee, Emory, and North
Fork of Holston River systems. (USFWS 1983)
Once occurring widely in 12 tributary systems lying in 5 states, it is now
extant in within four isolated tributary systems: one site in Buffalo River
of the lower drainage, and in the upper drainage; on section each of Little
Tennessee and North Fork Holston rivers; and essentially four streams of
the Emory system. only 4 systems: Little Tennessee River, North Carolina;
Duck and Emory Rivers, Tennessee; and North Fork of Holston River,
Tennessee and Virginia. (USFWS 1983)