1954 article puts then-lowly status of burbot on Lake of the Woods into clear focus

1954 article puts then-lowly status of burbot on Lake of the Woods into clear focus

Source: echopress

3/25/2023

Credit: Brad Dokken/Grand Forks Herald

Titled “Mink Sink, Swim on Burbot Catch,” the 1954 article featured commercial fishermen who were netting the “voracious predatory monsters” through the ice on Lake of the Woods for use as mink food.

The January/February edition of “Pages of Time,” a newsletter published by the Roseau County Historical Society – of which I’m a member – included a “willies”-inducing” article about burbot that originally appeared in the March 25, 1954, edition of the Roseau Times-Region newspaper.

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