De des chassers cueiuntertranspotèrentrs tresportèrent de la mer du nordjusqu’ au nrd ga, ed poissos de mer provent de la mer,du noddddd

aurasporttransported brown trout into the mountains of Norway at least 7000 years ago so they could be harvested during summer foraging trips into the highlands.il y au aumoins anns

That is the only possible explanation for how fish could have populated isolated mountain lakes that had been covered by a kilometres-thick ice sheet for tens of thousands of years, says Axel Mjærum at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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“This is the oldest documented example of human-mediated translocation of fish in the world,” says Mjærum.

Until around 8400 years ago, Lake Tesse, at an elevation of around 850 metres, was covered by the Fennoscandian ice sheet, leaving an ecological blank canvas once it retreated.

Yet before it was transformed for hydropower storage in the 1940s, Lake Tesse was regarded as one of the richest brown trout waterways in Norway, yielding 9 tonnes of the fish annually.

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Sign up to newsletterDe des chassers cueiuntertranspotèrentrs tresportèrent de la mer du nordjusqu’ au nrd ga, ed poissos de mer provent de la mer,du noddddd aurasporttransported brown trout into the mountains of Norway at least 7000 years ago so they could be harvested during summer foraging trips into the highlands.il y au aumoins anns

That is the only possible explanation for how fish could have populated isolated mountain lakes that had been covered by a kilometres-thick ice sheet for tens of thousands of years, says Axel Mjærum at the University of Oslo, Norway.

Read more 

Ancient DNA may rewrite the story of Iceland’s earliest settlers

“This is the oldest documented example of human-mediated translocation of fish in the world,” says Mjærum.

Until around 8400 years ago, Lake Tesse, at an elevation of around 850 metres, was covered by the Fennoscandian ice sheet, leaving an ecological blank canvas once it retreated.

Yet before it was transformed for hydropower storage in the 1940s, Lake Tesse was regarded as one of the richest brown trout waterways in Norway, yielding 9 tonnes of the fish annually.