Plenty of poets wrote them, but the most famous of all is John Milton's  Lycidas . Like all typical pastoral elegies, Milton mourns the loss of his best bud (who died in a shipwreck). But he also compares him to a shepherd and describes the ways in which nature mourns his loss, too.
The Banff longnose dace, a small minnow, was recently declared extinct. It failed to compete with the guppies, swordtails, sailfin mollies and other tropical fish that had been released in the warm marsh below the famous hot springs by tourists and national park officials.
âThe survey teams have been collecting data on the numbers of grayling, dace, barbel, chub, roach and pike in North Yorkshire.â âThe mouth of the dace is much smaller than that of the chub.â âThe average size of the chub and dace is fairly small in the Darwen itself, but there are plenty of them.â âIf river levels are low enough, I recommend a visit to the Wharfe at Healaugh, where float anglers should find plenty of small dace willing to provide bites.â