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Friday July 14, 2006
The Mysterious Blue Walleye of Canada
 Seventy-five years ago, Lake Erie was home to a species of fish known as the blue pike, which was actually a subspecies of walleye. They were slightly smaller in size than the walleye, and had larger eyes, perhaps to help them thrive in the deeper water they preferred. Their color was a grayish-blue, with none of the brassy yellow marking of the walleyes we know. Like walleyes, they were delicious table fare. The blue pike disappeared from Lake Erie in the 1950s, probably through the combination of pollution and overfishing.
Over the years, there have been sightings of blue-colored walleyes in several areas of Canada, but no one had ever collected these fish to see if they were related to the extinct species from Lake Erie. If they were,....
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Written by Lee Kernen for New York Outdoor News
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