burbot
- n elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth
- Burrowing burbot fish dug deep trenches in the silt, while sculpin fish created dimple-like holes as they nestled into the lake floor.
- Even so, their numbers remained relatively small until the 1950s, when the sea lampreyalso an oceanic interloperwiped the Great Lakes clean of the trout and burbot that .
- Gone is the plentiful supply of lake trout, burbot, walleyes and pike that once made the lakes a fisherman's paradise.