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North Carolina biologists are out looking for a precious fish

Brook trout, such as the male (front) and female (back), pictured here, are native to the Southern Appalachian area.
Kenneth Lingerfelt
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Brook trout, such as the male (front) and female (back), pictured here, are native to the Southern Appalachian area.

The Southern Appalachian brook trout are ancient. But the fish only like clean streams. Now scientists want to know how the trout is doing a year after floods from Hurricane Helene.

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Katie Myer