Devil's Hole pupfish count rebounds Tiny neon-blue pupfish that are struggling to survive in a spring-fed cave in Nye County have rebounded this fall to 126 adult fish, 34 more than last fall's count and the highest number recorded since 2004, a federal biologist said Wednesday. "We're feeling pretty good," said Bob Williams, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service field supervisor for Nevada. "We're feeling like we're at least maintaining the population. There is still lots and lots of work to do," he said about the endangered Devil's Hole pupfish that exist in the wild only around a shelf in the water-filled limestone cave, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. For unknown reasons the species began steadily declining in about 1995 after historically numbering about 500 since the mid-1970s. They reached a low of 38 fish in the spring of 2006. But the population, which is in a part of Death Valley National Park within Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, took a sharp turn for the worse in September 2004. That's when a flash flood sent a tub of glass fish traps tumbling into the hole, killing about one-third of the pupfish population at the time, 80 in all. The traps were being used by Southern Oregon University researchers to assess pupfish reproduction....