Other endemic species include the oily, scaleless golomyanka fish and the omul, a white fish that is one of Lake Baikal's most famous dishes. Other land-based species around Lake Baikal include ...

Lake Baikal features 27 islands, including one 45 miles in length called Olkhon, while in and around Baikal live more than 1,500 animal species ... camping and fishing. Along the lake’s northern ...

Siberia’s Lake Baikal plunges more than 5,000 feet ... Tanganyika is home to a staggering number of endemic fish species and provides food for more than 10 million people who call the region ...

Lake Baikal is undergoing its gravest crisis ... Starting in October, the government introduced a ban on all commercial fishing of omul, a species of the salmon family only found in Baikal ...

About 80 per cent of the 2,600 or so species living in Lake Baikal are endemic -- in other ... and serve as food for fish. This key role in the food network makes them important model organisms ...

Lake Baikal, a UNESCO World Heritage Site which has thousands of endemic species, has been suffering from a string of detrimental phenomena over recent years. These include depletion of fish ...

Lake Baikal in southern Siberia is home to 80,000 seals. They spend their days zooming through the water in pursuit of delicious fish ... Of the 33 existing species of pinnipeds—the taxonomic ...

Naturalist, traveller, explorer, doctor, researcher of the Baikal lake ... He discovers a new species of fairy shrimp (Branchipus grubii), while his dissertation on Livonian fish from the Cyprinidae ...