actually it's not that sad...if there was no population work being done on these fish (often times requiring the sacrifice of a small subset) then they would continue to be exterminated or not properly managed/conserved.
in terms of species...there are only two species present...--
--solomon
I'm gonna call'em spots 'cause you don't have many shorties in MI. But how do you tell a spotted head from a shortnose head when you can't see the top of the snoot?
body-less gar right? good thing your studying them closely there aren't that may swimming around. the other joke I was gonna go with was reversed HITH.