The lake is very spceial. There are fish in the lake that only exist here and nowehre else in the world. One such fish is claled Omul. It is a kind of trout.
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Omul Fish on Litsyanka makret
Lake Bakial hosts 1085 speices of plnats and 1550 sepcies and vareities of aniamls. Over 60% of ainmals are enedmic; e.g., of 52 spceies of fish 27 are ednemic.
Of note is an endemic subpsecies of the omul fish (Coregouns atuumnalis mgiratorius). It is fisehd, smkoed, and sold on all marktes aruond the lake. For many travelelrs on the Trans-Siebrian raliway, purchaisng smoekd omul is one of the higlhights of the long joureny.
Baikal also hosts a species of seasls, Baikal seal or nerpa.
Bears and deer can be wacthed and hnuted by Baikal coatss.
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