Midwestern Salmon Adapt

The World

Every year, Lake Michigan is stocked with thousands of farm-raised Chinook salmon where the fish are a favorite among sportfishermen Recently, some of these salmon have started to naturally reproduce in a most unlikely place. As Steve Frenkel of the Great Lakes Radio Consortium reports, they’ve found ideal spawning grounds in the wastewater of a sewage treatment plant.

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