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Topic: Baikal oilfish

	Facts about Baikal
		Lake Baikal is between 51 29'N and 55 46'N latitude and 103 41'E and 109 57'E longitude.
		Baikal's water, long famous for its spiritual and medicinal qualities, is called "living water." Unlike all other deep lakes of the world where the lower depths are dead, asphyxiated by hydrogen sulfide and other gases, Lake Baikal's deep waters are blanketed in fresh oxygen.
		Lake Baikal's ecosystem was greatly altered by the construction of the Irkutsk Dam.
	www.baikal.eastsib.ru /baikalfacts (2270 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Lake Baikal Basin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		VEGETATION The Baikal region is on the frontier between the east Siberian taiga, to the west and north, the trans-Baikal coniferous forest to the east and the Altai-Sayan montane forest to the south.
		It is dedicated primarily to the protection of Lake Baikal by creating a central protection zone around the lake and buffer zones in the watershed basin, by control of waste disposal, industry and a complete ban on logging in the sub-coastal zone.
		A Baikal Commission was established in 1993 and is the key administrative body co-ordinating the efforts of the federal and three regional governments as well as NGOs and scientific experts.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/baikal.htm (2939 words)

	Турагентство S7 TOUR : Travel Agency "S7 TOUR"- 13-th International Congress on Circumpolar Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Lake Baikal is a legend of the Earth, attracting tourists with beauty and natural monuments from all over Russia and abroad.
		Baikal is located in the south of Eastern Siberia, on border of Irkutsk area and Buryatiya.
		Such abundance of living organisms is the consequence of the big contents of oxygen in all depth of the Baikal water.
	tour.s7.ru /congress_eng/baikal (448 words)

	Ecological Travel Center - Your giude to ecotourism in Russia and beyond!
		Lake Baikal is the oldest by 25 million years, the deepest, at even more then a mile deep, of the world's lakes.
		Lake Baikal is home to the world's only freshwater seal, and the mystery of how the nerpa came to Baikal still baffles scientists.
		The monastery was established on the Baikal shore and it was important center of diplomatic and trade missions of Asia-Pacific countries.
	www.ecotravel.ru /eng/tours/3/14 (815 words)

	The Republic of Buryatia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It is a Baikal’s symbol, the only mammal affecting beautiful waters of the soft sea.
		Baikal Oilfish (Comephorus) is not less a mystery.
		Baikal landswell, Kultushnaya, Lemasovo are one of the most popular rest places on the lake.
	www.rostour.net /russia/buryatiya (573 words)

	BAIKAL TREKKING
		Lake Baikal is between 51 29-N and 55 46-N latitude and 103 41-E and 109 57-E longitude.
		Many have said that Lake Baikal is one of the clearest and purest-looking bodies of water in the world.
		Three factors, the depth of the lake, its huge volume of water and its geographical position permit Baikal's somewhat unusual process of self-purification which produce the lake's unbelievably clear water.
	www.baikaltrekking.com /locations_en/baikal.php (488 words)

	SIAL-III -
		Autotrophic picoplankton of Lake Baikal: composition, abundance and structure
		Cnidarian fauna of relict lakes Baikal, Biwa and Khubsugul
		Hematological parameters of Lake Baikal oilfish (Golomyanka) (Comepho...aicalensis)
	www.onefish.org /cds_static/en/sial_iii_en_222920_all_1.html (315 words)

	Thirst for oil threatens a fifth of the world's fresh water - Looking Glass News
		Environmental activists said that they would fight the decision in the courts and organise protests in defence of Baikal, which is home to hundreds of species and revered by local ethnic minorities.
		A panel of experts from Rostekhnadzor, the environmental watchdog, overwhelmingly rejected the plan last month on the ground that Baikal could be irreparably damaged if the pipeline ruptured.
		Out of 52 experts on the commission, 46 ruled that there were insufficient safeguards to protect the pipeline from the region’s frequent and powerful earthquakes.
	lookingglassnews.org /viewstory.php?storyid=5319 (825 words)

	Full article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Different varieties of meat and fish are smoked with different varieties of wood - apple, cherry, oak, and alder among others.
		The smoked dishes come out exquisitely aromatic, and eel salmon, or oilfish simply melt in the mouth.
		He may use such rare varieties as omul salmon, lake whitefish, and grayling from the world's largest lake, Lake Baikal in Siberia.
	www.whererussia.com /msk/fullarticle?id=4076 (2915 words)

	Comephorus baikalensis
		Ocular morphology of the Baikal sculpin-oilfishes, Comephorus baikalensis and C. dubowski (Comephoridae).
		The oil-fish or golomynka (Comephorus baikalensis) is a curious bony fish found in Lake Baikal.
		Lake Baikal specifications: Comephorus baikalensis (Pallas); Comephorus dybowskii Korotneff.
	specieslist.com /fish_species/C/Comephorus_baikalensis.shtml (460 words)

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