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Tennessee: Brook Trout on the Rebound

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12 Jun 2006 25 views
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Tennessee: Brook Trout on the Rebound
The brook trout, once endangered in the Eastern US is making a comeback. So much that officials are allowing catching and keeping for the first time in 30 years.

Once endangered in the Eastern United States, the brook trout is making a comeback. The success of conservation efforts has led to stable populations that now will be open to fishermen of a few Appalachian Mountain streams for the first time in 30 years. The brook trout is the only trout native in the East. (AP)

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