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A fish that's swum in Maine ponds since the Ice Age faces an uncertain future 
By Murray Carpenter US Source: Connecticut Public Radio / WNPR 12/12/2022
Murray Carpenter
Credit: Murray Carpenter / Maine Public
It’s a brisk late-October morning, with a bright sun breaking through the fog clinging to the surface of Floods Pond, in Otis. Brad Erdman and Fred Seavey load gear into an aluminum skiff, and head out across the water.
 

A series of net floats comes into view in shallow water alongshore. Erdman and Seavey, both University of Maine graduate students, begin to check the submerged net.

In a trap at the business end of the net, Erdman finds a sleek 18-inch female arctic charr.

 
Green Lake Char, Arctic Trout, Brook Continue...


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