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Living Ice Age relic
Janet Sumner visits a hatchery to take a look at dollaghan, a species of brown trout only found in Lough Neagh and some nearby rivers. It was left behind in the lough after the Ice Age ended. Unlike other brown trout the dollaghan migrates using Lough Neagh like a sea and heading out to local rivers to spawn.
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