Yamanashi begins study on rediscovered 'kunimasu' salmon

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - A man holds a fish carcass that could be of an indigenous freshwater salmon species known as ''kunimasu'' in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Feb. 4, 2011. The Yamanashi prefectural government began field research that day into the kunimasu, which was thought to have gone extinct about 70 years ago but found in Lake Saiko late 2010.

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