Fish That Scientists Thought Was Extinct Is Actually Abundant, Study Finds

The assumed-extinct fish species is actually the same species as a common fish known as the European whitefish, DNA evidence reveals.

A species of fish thought to have gone extinct 15 years ago has surprised scientists after being found living happily in the wild.The houting, a whitefish species found throughout estuaries in the North Sea, was declared officially extinct in 2008.Now, researchers have used DNA taken from specimens of houting in the Natural History Museum in London and compared it to a species living in the wild—the European whitefish.

'Coregonids that are found in and around the North Sea and Baltic Sea are named whitefish, common whitefish, European whitefish, houting or North Sea houting, depending on the geographical location where the fish is found, for example,' Kroes said. 'This also applies to the scientific name that are addressed to these fish: C. oxyrinchus and C. lavaretus and sometimes C. marenae.

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