A little five and a half inch fish

A little five and a half inch fish is causing a stir since US Geological Survey scientists hauled it up from depths of nearly 500 feet of water in Lake Ontario. The deep water sculpin, a species once abundant in the US side of the lake, had not been seen for more than 50 years. The last known sculpin had been caught in 1942. Research trawls in Lake Ontario over many years had come up empty although the fish is plentiful in other Great Lakes, so excitement is less about conservation than improvements in the quality of the lake waters, stated Mr Robert O'Gorman, head of the Survey's biological station at the lake. "The reappearance of deepwater sculpin is one of many recent signs that a general recovery of Lake Ontario's native fish community is under way."