Quoted: “We?re attempting to target that cold water habitat that the Rainbow Smelt need,” said Jordan Read, a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral student and organizer of the project. “In order to do that we?re mixing the bottom lake waters, which are normally very cold, with the surface waters which are much warmer. The end result is a lake that is too warm for the invasive fish to survive but has normal temperatures for some of the warmer water fish.”
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