The Yamanashi Prefectural Government plans to raise an endangered deepwater salmon species discovered in 2010 in Lake Saiko at the foot of Mount Fuji - 70 years after it died out in its original habitat 500 km northeast in Akita Prefecture's Lake Tazawa.
Yamanashi Prefectural Fisheries Technology Center culturists will gill-net the "kunimasu" species in the 2.1-sq.-km lake, collecting sperm from males and eggs from females for fertilization at a hatchery in February and March - peak mating season - said Kiyoshi Mitsui, the center's director. (Japan Times)
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