Black Kokanee

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Came across this article of Black Kokanee, I'm not familiar with this species.

• Rediscovered in: 2010
  
  
• Where: Lake Saiko, Japan
  

[font="Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Midlevel", sans-serif]The black kokanee, a landlocked sockeye salmon species, was endemic to Lake Tazawa on the Japanese Island of Honshu. In 1940, a hydroelectric dam project led to the eventual deaths of all the kokanee in the lake. Prior to the project, over 100,000 kokanee eggs were transferred to Lake Saiko in an attempt to save the species. The attempt was assumed unsuccessful, however, until a local fisherman found a peculiar fish in Lake Saiko in 2010 that was later identified as a black kokanee.




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