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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lucinda Cameron

Rare Ice Age fish thriving in loch in southern Scotland

Vendace were introduced to Loch Skeen in the late 1990s (NTSMediaPics/PA) -

A rare fish which dates back to the Ice Age is continuing to thrive in a loch where it was introduced after becoming extinct in Scotland, a survey has found.

Vendace, said to be the UK’s rarest native freshwater fish, is a northern species which needs cold, deep and well-oxygenated lochs in order to survive.

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