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  2. Category:Fish of the Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    Fish of the Great Lakes Region — in the Eastern United States and Eastern Canada regions of North America. Fish species that are native to the Great Lakes and their direct tributaries . For non-native and/or invasive species of fish, see: Category: Invasive animal species in North America .

  3. Lake whitefish - Wikipedia

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    Lake whitefish are found throughout much of Canada and parts of the northern United States, including all of the Great Lakes. The lake whitefish is sometimes referred to as a "humpback" fish due to the small size of the head in relation to the length of the body. [3] [a] It is a valuable commercial fish, and also occasionally taken by sport ...

  4. Freshwater drum - Wikipedia

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    The drum typically weighs 5–15 lb (2.3–6.8 kg). The world record was caught on Nickajack Lake in Tennessee, and weighed in at 54 lb 8 oz (24.7 kg). [12] The freshwater drum is frequently gray or silvery but may be more bronze or brown colored, common in the Lake Erie population.

  5. Great Lakes fish thought extinct for decades rediscovered ...

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    The fish was thought extinct on the Great Lakes for nearly 40 years, and not known to exist in Lake Superior. An early fishery researcher is vindicated. Between 2006 and 2021, USGS collected 602 ...

  6. Slimy sculpin - Wikipedia

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    The slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus) is a freshwater species of fish belonging to the family Cottidae, which is the largest sculpin family.They usually inhabit cold rocky streams or lakes across North America, ranging from the Great Lakes, southeast Minnesota, northeast Iowa, southwest Wisconsin and northeast Canada.

  7. Great Lakes - Wikipedia

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    The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes spanning the Canada–United States border.The five lakes are Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario (though hydrologically, Michigan and Huron are a single body of water; they are joined by the Straits of Mackinac).

  8. Alewife (fish) - Wikipedia

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    Alewife grew in number unchecked because the lakes lacked a top predator (lake trout were essentially wiped out around the same time by overfishing and the invasion of the sea lamprey) [18] For a time, alewife, which often exhibit seasonal die-offs, washed up in windrows on the shorelines of the Great Lakes.

  9. Blue walleye - Wikipedia

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    The blue walleye was a commercially valuable fish in the Great Lakes. Populations appeared to collapse quickly in the 1950s. Between 1950 and 1957, catches in the U.S. and Canada fluctuated between 2,000,000 pounds (910,000 kg) and 26,000,000 pounds (12,000,000 kg) a year.