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Stephen Starr in Sandusky, Ohio

The Great Lakes’ most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books

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Freshly caught lake whitefish from Lake Michigan. Photograph: Carol Dembinsky/Dembinsky Photo Associates/Alamy

From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the “largest fresh water fish market in the world”. Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as “Sandusky’s pride”, takes up the entire page.

But the book was published in 1888.

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