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Humans Were Stocking Mountain Lakes With Fish 7,000 Years Ago, Archaeologists Say

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Archaeologists have uncovered seven-thousand-year-old fish traps that represent the first known evidence humans were stocking mountain lakes. According to io9, these ancient structures suggest people deliberately managed brown trout populations in remote areas thousands of years earlier than previously known.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/humans-were-stocking-lakes-with-fish-...

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