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Watch Now: Native fish returns to the Santa Cruz River
Longfin dace are swimming in Tucson's Santa Cruz River again after being gone for more than 100 years.
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A tiny native fish was reintroduced to the Santa Cruz River in Tucson on Wednesday, thanks to efforts to restore the river's flow using treated wastewater.
Researchers document century-old fish in Arizona's Apache Lake, where they have been living since they were stocked upstream in 1918.
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