Ekhirit's parents were the Motley Burbot and Coast-Crack of Baikal. Baigal-Dalai, this is how Buryats called this sacred sea. Abarga zagahan lives in its depth, which is considered to be an ancestor and the queen of all fishes. Every year in spring western Buryats made sacrifices and the rite of milk sprinkling in honor of this fish. Most of them are indigenous only to Baikal.
Endemic species occupy open expanses of water, they like clean and cold water.
Fish golomyanka is a self-bearing fish and fives berth without spawning. The golomyanka's body is transparent and thaws in the sun like ice. At past Buryats melted fat out of golomyanka using it as health-giving remedy and in the family life. Grayling, sig, osturgeon and certainly omul are caught in the lake. It is possible that omul as well as seal take their origin in the Arctic Ocean.