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Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area and the third largest in volume, behind Lake Baikal in Siberia and Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. The Caspian Sea, while larger than Lake Superior in both surface area and volume, is brackish . Lake Superior deepest point [4] on the bathymetric map.
There are about 123 species of fishes found naturally in Minnesota waters, including Lake Superior. The following list is based on the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources . The species data on this page is taken from the Minnesota DNR, which also uses several labels to indicate a fish's status within Minnesota waters.
The lake trout ( Salvelinus namaycush) [2] is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr ), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish ...
47.478089°N 90.999858°W. / 47.478089; -90.999858 ( Amboy) Amethyst/Sophie's Wreck. Wooden tug. 1868. 1888. 8 feet (2.4 m) Wreck of a small wooden tugboat discovered in 2007 near Duluth, Minnesota. Thought to be the remains of the Amethyst, a tug which burned and sank near Duluth, Minnesota in 1888.
Crooks was president of the American Fur Co. in 1834, when his company began fishing the Big Lake commercially, the first to do so. Lake trout ... Anderson: Lake Superior’s lore and legend ...
The new Icelandite Coastal Fen SNA has one of only two known fens on coastal wetlands on Lake Superior's North Shore, according to the DNR. The DNR says a fen is a "grassy or shrubby wetland fed ...
Burbot, Lota lota. The burbot ( Lota lota ), also known as bubbot, [2] mariah, [3] loche, cusk, [4] freshwater cod, [5] freshwater ling, freshwater cusk, the lawyer, coney-fish, lingcod, [6] or eelpout, is a species of coldwater ray-finned fish native to the subarctic regions of the Northern hemisphere. It is the only member of the genus Lota ...
Elimination of these predators allowed the alewife, another invasive species, to explode in population, with adverse effects on many native fish species. The lake trout plays a vital role in the Lake Superior ecosystem. The lake trout has traditionally been considered an apex predator, which means that it has no predators. The sea lamprey is an ...