UNICOI COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Nearly one year after Hurricane Helene caused regionwide flooding on an unprecedented scale, the fish population in Northeast Tennessee's waterways has proven to be resilient.

Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) Public Information Officer Matthew Cameron said in an interview on WJHL+ that the floods washed thousands of fish downstream to Douglas Lake.

"Fish got displaced, I guess, is the first thing that happened," Cameron said during an interview on the show Outdoors Appalachia. "So Douglas Lake probably got stocked pretty heavily with a lot of fish that aren't normally there, more of a river-type fish."

However, the fish were largely able to return home after the floods.

"Fish will try to go back where they came from. There's some barriers in thei

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