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Article: Lake trout's demise blamed on pollution
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- November 16, 2003
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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 world vanished