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By Andy Whitcomb
Special to ESPNOutdoors.com

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Years ago, as a fisheries research assistant at Iowa State University, I was given a task of gathering data for a life history table of species of fish in the Missouri River. For weeks, I waded through books, journals and theses to unearth such information as the growth rates of a river redhorse, the ovum diameter of a quillback, and the age at maturity of the sturgeon chub. But the literature on the life history for one freshwater species seemed distinctly different. Most information on the ...

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