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Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon species

Yamanashi gov't to farm newly discovered endangered salmon species

FUJIKAWAGUCHIKO, Japan - The photo shows Lake Saiko where Kunimasu, an endangered deepwater salmon species, was discovered in 2010, 70 years after its extinction in 1940 in its original habitat, Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, 500 kilometers to the northeast. The photo was taken on Jan. 7, 2012.

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Yamanashi begins study on rediscovered 'kunimasu' salmon

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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