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    (c) oblio1953, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Jerry Schoen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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    (c) Brent Guinn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Émile, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Cole Tiemann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Arctic Char

Salvelinus alpinus

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Fish

About

Arctic char or Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes and arctic and subarctic coastal waters. Its distribution is circumpolar. It spawns in fresh water and populations can be lacustrine, riverine or anadromous, where they return from the ocean to their fresh water birth rivers to spawn. No other freshwater fish is found as far north; it is, for instance, the only fish species in Lake Hazen...

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