Along a 400-mile river that runs from Mississippi into Louisiana, there are big hopes for a tiny fish. The Pearl Darter has once again returned to its name-sake waterway, Pearl River, not far from Pinola, Mississippi. Fifty years ago, pollution caused the tiny  Pearl Darter , a snub-nosed bottom dweller, to vanish from a waterway stretching from central Mississippi to southeast Louisiana. While some pollution issues persist, the water has improved in quality. It's now clean enough that state and federal officials are attempting to revive the Pearl Darter population by introducing fish from a private hatchery.

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