A trio of environmental groups are suing federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Loyola Hearn for failing to take steps to protect the Nooksack Dace, a small freshwater fish that once flourished in streams in British Columbia's Fraser River Valley.
The Nooksack Dace is listed as an endangered species in Canada's Species at Risk Act, and yet, according to one of the scientists who spent a decade studying the fish, "...the federal government has chosen not to address critical habitat identification in the strategy for Nooksack dace, despite having the information and means to do it."
No word yet from Hearn's office.