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Pike ponds purged of invasive fish

Ed Schoenfeld

Image by ADF&G

Pike eat juvenile salmon.

SITKA, ALASKA (2009-10-16) Yakutat could be done with its pike problem. The state poisoned the ravenous invasive species out of some small lakes near the northern Southeast Alaska town. And the salmon that once lived there have started to return.
Read more about Alaska's invasive pike problem.

Northern pike's natural range is in green.