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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources plans expanded research and regulatory changes to better protect native fish species long overlooked by the agency. The recommendations are part of a new report to the state Legislature on native rough fish conservation.
Researchers document century-old fish in Arizona's Apache Lake, where they have been living since they were stocked upstream in 1918.
The buffalofish, a big fish with huge scales that’s a member of the sucker family, has long been ignored by Minnesota anglers in favor of walleye and other game species.
New research has found several species of the buffalofish, which are native to Minnesota, can live to be well over 100 years old. That’s helped spark new appreciation for the fish, and efforts to give it greater protection.
These little-known North American fish 'defy expectations.'