State officials make surprising decision after historic scene unfolds at Lake Superior: ‘It’s kind of a … story to tell’

In Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world, populations of native lake trout were on the brink of collapsing in the 1960s due to overfishing and invasive sea lampreys. Now, the species has recovered to such an extent that state officials will be using lake trout from Lake Superior to stock other lakes around Minnesota, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported.

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