Connect With Us Species of Concern Region 3 Decision on the
Status Recommendation for the Northern Cavefish (Amblyopsis
spelaea) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bloomington,
Indiana, Ecological Services Field Office has reviewed the
relevant published and unpublished data for the northern
cavefish over its entire range. Based on that review the
Bloomington Field Office has recommended that the status of the
northern cavefish (Amblyopsis spelaea) not be elevated to the
status of a Candidate Species, but that it remain as a regional
"Species of Concern." The endangered species program staff in
the Region 3 Office support that recommendation; therefore,
Region 3 has determined that the northern cavefish will not be
elevated to the status of a Candidate Species at this time. The
Field Office Status Recommendation indicates that long term
population data is not available and therefore a population
decline cannot be documented. Additionally, the species exists
today over essentially the same geographic range t