The Curronian Bay including the lower Nemunas, is the richest freshwater source of fish in Lithuania, where fish production (pikeperch, smelt, roach) is 1,300 tonnes a year.
Benthos The organisms that live on the bottom sediments of freshwater and marine ecosystems. They include plants and algae (phytobenthos) that grow below low tide mark.
I had no idea Tulare Lake was once the biggest freshwater body west of the Mississippi, but it was dammed and dived and drained to build a $2 billion agriculture industry.