Slimy fish complicates lake trout restoration in Great Lakes
Great Lakes Echo
May 21 2010

Burbot, a native Great Lakes fish species, are slimy, big-mouthed bottom feeders. “That’s why they call them lawyers,” said Martin Stapanian, a research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Lake Erie Biological Station. They’re also called threatened in many parts of the world, according to a report co-authored by Stapanian and published in the March issue of the journal Fish and Fisheries.


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