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Article: Scientists point to pollution as cause of lake trout's disappearance.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2003
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Byline: Christopher Steiner
CHICAGO _ American Indians knew them as the namaycush, or "tyrant of the lakes," and before their mystifying disappearance in the middle of the last century, lake trout sat atop the Great Lakes food chain as a prodigious predator.
When the fish disappeared, it devastated the Great Lakes commercial fishing industry, opened the door for invasive species to run wild and left scientists with a riddle: What killed off the lake trout?
A new federal study strongly suggests that there was an invisible perpetrator that eradicated the lake trout, one that finally explains how the king of the largest freshwater system in the ...