Black Buffalo - Management Recommendations

Management Recommendations

To ensure the long life and thriving reproduction of I. niger, protection and restoration of larger river habitat is needed. The education of anglers, biologist, and the general public of taxonomy, systematics, and habitat use is needed. The species is very difficult due to natural hybridization and is hard for both research and enforcement. Dams need to be equipped with fish passages to connect fragmented habitats. Invasive species that compete or degrade the habitat of native fishes need to be controlled.