The Recovery Plan identifies specific, voluntary actions that will help recover the fish so it may eventually be removed from the list of threatened and endangered species. Objectives and criteria for delisting the species are spelled out. In addition, the fish's status and current management practices are described.

This small fish is currently known to occur in three streams in Val Verde and Kinney counties, Texas, all tributaries to the Rio Grande: Devils River, San Felipe Creek and Pinto Creek. The current status of the species in Sycamore Creek, Texas, and in the Río Salado drainage in Chihuahua, Mexico is not known. The species was once found in the lower portions of the Devils River (now Amistad Reservoir in Val Verde County), Las Moras Creek (Kinney County), and from the Río San Carlos (Mexico) but is no longer believed to be there. include: (1) to maintain and enhance Devils River minnow populations and habitats range-wide; (2) control the invasion of non-native species; (3) to establish additional Devils River minnow populations within the historic range, specifically in Las Moras Creek; and (4) to maintain genetic reserves of Devils River minnow through captive propagation until no longer needed.