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Lahontan cutthroat trout, lake form, from Pyramid Lake, Nevada. 1938 remarks by FDR on the taste of Nevada trout.. The Lahontan cutthroat is native to the drainages of the Truckee River, Humboldt River, Carson River, Walker River, Quinn River, and several smaller rivers in the Great Basin of North America. [6]
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The largest cutthroat trout subspecies is the Lahontan cutthroat trout (O. h. henshawi). These fish average 8 to 9 in (20 to 23 cm) in small streams and 8 to 22 in (20 to 56 cm) in larger rivers and lakes. In ideal environments, the Lahontan cutthroat trout attains typical weights of 0.25 to 8 lb (0.11 to 3.63 kg). [23]
Maybe a big group of them, their colors contrasted against the drab brown of the lake bottom. The fish are Lahontan cutthroat trout, a species native to the Great Basin of California, Nevada and ...
The Lahontan cutthroat trout evolved as a predator species within the waters of Lake Lahontan, feeding on native chub and sucker. This subspecies of cutthroat trout survives today in tributary rivers of the Great Basin, and has been reintroduced to Pyramid Lake and Walker Lake after being extirpated during the 20th century.
Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii henshawi) is the only trout species native to Fallen Leaf Lake, Lake Tahoe and the Truckee River Basin but were extirpated by introduction of predatory non-native lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), other competing non-native salmonids, and overfishing.
To accomplish this, NDOW stocks a total of 105,000 trout per year. 70,000 of those are native Lahontan cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi) and the rest are non-native Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). [27] The Truckee also boasts a healthy, self-sustaining non-native Brown trout (Salmo trutta) population. [27]
Blackspotted cutthroat trout: Oncorhynchus clarkii (subspecies lewisi) 1977 [37] Nebraska: Channel catfish: Ictalurus punctatus: 1997 [38] Nevada: Lahontan cutthroat trout: Oncorhynchus clarkii (subspecies henshawi) 1981 [39] [40] New Hampshire: Brook trout (freshwater) Salvelinus fontinalis: 1994 [41] Striped bass (salt water game fish) Morone ...