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Photo Cutline: The science provided by Sudeep Chandra, a limnologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, helped officials reach their decision to allow commercial harvesting of the invasive crayfish at Lake Tahoe. The crayfish, like the cooked crayfish from Tahoe pictured here with Chandra, number at more than 220 million. They are a factor in the decline of water clarity at Lake Tahoe. Photo by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno.

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Photo Cutline: The science provided by Sudeep Chandra, a limnologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, helped officials reach their decision to allow commercial harvesting of the invasive crayfish at Lake Tahoe. The crayfish, like the cooked crayfish from Tahoe pictured here with Chandra, number at more than 220 million, are a factor in the decline of water clarity at Lake Tahoe. Photo by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno.