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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: World's Largest Trout Thrives in Mongolia -- For Now


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The world's largest trout, the taimen (seen here in Mongolia's Eg River), has been fished to the brink of extinction in China and Russia.

Conservationists are struggling to save the fish in its last stronghold: northern Mongolia's remote rivers.

Photograph courtesy Zeb Hogan/ WWF Conservation Science Fellow/National Geographic Emerging Explorer