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Arctic char is known to produce hybrids with its congeners, Salvelinus namaycush and Salvelinus fontinalis (brook trout). [30] The sparctic char is the intrageneric hybrid between Arctic char and brook trout. [30] Sparctic char grows faster than either parent species, are stronger and healthier, and are thus popular for sports fisheries. [30]
Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, laker, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Those caught with dark coloration may be called mud hens. [3] [better source needed]
The Dolly Varden trout (Salvelinus malma) is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.Despite the name "trout" (which typically refers to freshwater species from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus), it belongs to the genus Salvelinus (chars), which includes 51 recognized species, the most prominent being the brook ...
Core distribution of bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) in U.S. 2005 [8]S. confluentus is found in the cold, clear waters of the high mountains and coastal rivers of northwestern North America, including Yukon, Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana, as well as the Jarbidge River of northern Nevada and perhaps Alaska.
The Alaskan subspecies of moose (Alces alces gigas) is the largest in the world; adult males weigh 1,200 to 1,600 pounds (542–725 kg), and adult females weigh 800 to 1,300 pounds (364–591 kg) [17] Alaska's substantial moose population is controlled by predators such as bears and wolves, which prey mainly on vulnerable calves, as well as by ...
Salvelinus is a genus of salmonid fish often called char [3] or charr; some species are called "trout". Salvelinus is a member of the subfamily Salmoninae within the family Salmonidae . The genus has a northern circumpolar distribution , and most of its members are typically cold-water fish that primarily inhabit fresh waters.
The Sunapee trout (Salvelinus alpinus oquassa), also called blueback trout, Sunapee Golden trout, or Quebec red trout, is a putative subspecies of Arctic char native to northeastern New England in the United States, as well as Québec and New Brunswick in Canada, with introduced populations in Idaho.
Salvelinus (Char) Salvelinus albus — White char; Salvelinus alpinus — Arctic char; Salvelinus andriashevi — Chukot char; Salvelinus boganidae — Boganida char; Salvelinus czerskii — Cherskii's char; Salvelinus drjagini — Dryagin's char; Salvelinus elgyticus — Small-mouth char; Salvelinus jacuticus — Yakutian char; Salvelinus ...