{"id":76699,"date":"2026-07-29T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-great-lakes-most-emblematic-fish-could-be-consigned-to-history-books\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T07:57:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:57:06","slug":"the-great-lakes-most-emblematic-fish-could-be-consigned-to-history-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-great-lakes-most-emblematic-fish-could-be-consigned-to-history-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Lakes\u2019 most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why \u2026 but stopping it is another matter<\/p>\n<p>From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the \u201clargest fresh water fish market in the world\u201d. Two pages later, an image of the lake whitefish, referred to as \u201cSandusky\u2019s pride\u201d, takes up the entire page.<\/p>\n<p>But the book was published in 1888.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/29\/lake-whitefish-great-lakes-invasive-mussels\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delicacy for centuries and a key part of Native tradition, the lake whitefish has seen its population crash. Researchers know why \u2026 but stopping it is another matter From the basement of the Sandusky library, page 29 of the book Sandusky of To-Day proclaims the town to be the \u201clargest fresh water fish market &#8230; <a title=\"The Great Lakes\u2019 most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/the-great-lakes-most-emblematic-fish-could-be-consigned-to-history-books\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Great Lakes\u2019 most emblematic fish could be consigned to history books\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}