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The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of trout native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in North America and Asia. The steelhead (sometimes called steelhead trout) is an anadromous (sea-run) form of the coastal rainbow trout (O. m. irideus) or Columbia River redband trout (O. m. gairdneri) that usually returns to freshwater to spawn after living two to three years ...
Eagle Lake trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss aquilarum) is a subspecies of rainbow trout endemic to Eagle Lake, in Lassen County, California. It is a type of trout known for its ability to withstand high alkalinity . [ 1 ]
The Kern River rainbow trout is a "Species of Special Concern" in the state of California due to habitat loss and hybridization with other native and non-native trout in their range. [ 4 ] The Kern River rainbow trout is one of three subspecies of O. mykiss that are all endemic to the Kern River basin, sharing the headwaters of the river with ...
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is dropping trout from airplanes into hard to reach lakes for the first time in five years. See planes dropping rainbow trout into California lakes ...
Lake McSwain. Trout 3. About 1,000 pounds of rainbow and 1000 pounds of Lightning trout were planted prior to the holiday weekend, and limits or near-limits were the rule within a few days of the ...
This subspecies of rainbow trout can grow to very large sizes, possibly having evolved to live longer as low flows often restrict spawning runs up their main spawning stream, Pine Creek. [2] The average size of Eagle Lake trout are about 1.5 lb (0.68 kg) and can exceed 10 lb (4.5 kg).
Staff at the Black Rock and Fish Springs hatcheries in the Eastern Sierra determined that infected rainbow trout were showing signs of disease. California must euthanize 350,000 trout after ...
Steelhead in 1924 illustration using the original taxonomic name, Salmo gairdneri The freshwater form of the steelhead is the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).The difference between these forms of the species is that steelhead migrate to the ocean and return to freshwater tributaries to spawn, whereas non-anadromous rainbow trout do not leave freshwater.