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World’s deepest lake in peril
October 20 , 2017
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- Lake Baikal, holding one-fifth of the world’s unfrozen fresh water is undergoing its gravest crisis in recent history.
- Baikal in Russia’s Siberia is a natural wonder of “exceptional value to evolutionary science” meriting its listing as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
- Baikal lake is the deepest lake in the world.
- Explosion of rotten algal blooms which is unnatural to Baikal, and commercial fishing has led to decline of Omul, a species of Salmon family found exclusively in Baikal lake.
- Since the population declining consequence is irreversible the Russian government introduced a ban on all commercial fishing of Omul.
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