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Minnesota DNR discovers rare spawning brook trout in Lake Superior

Acting on a tip, Duluth fisheries biologists launched their boat into Lake Superior last fall and motored to a hidden corner of the Minnesota shoreline. There, they dipped the boat’s electrofishing gear into the water, sending out a pulse just strong enough to stun a fish to the surface but not to kill or harm it. Then they saw it, floating in the water: spawning brook trout. “It’s …