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Migrating trout name?


Iceman

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I need some help with this question please:  "A trout that migrates to the ocean or large freshwater lake and returns as an adult to spawn is called a what"

 

Have tried salmonid,  anadromous, & semelparous, which were all deemed wrong.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

John

 

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Anadromous should work. Atlantic Salmon spend most their lives in the ocean and then return to fresh water to spawn and then return to the ocean. Unlike the Pacific salmon they don't die after spawning and may spawn several times in their lives. The Atlantics that are stocked in lakes not connected by streams to the ocean habitat are called "landlocked salmon" or "landlocks".

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Catadromous means to go from fresh water to sea water to spawn but I'm not aware of any brown trout that do this.

 

Anadromous means to go from salt water to fresh water to spawn like a sea trout.

 

- Chris

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Fish that can live both in fresh and salt water are called: Eurihaline. A good example is a striped bass that can winter over in fresh water rivers in New England (Thames)

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So called "steelhead" in the Great Lakes Basin are not ocean saltwater fish. Ocean run steelhead are slimmer and faster than our inbred stocked Rainbow trout that today are classified by the scientific community as salmon.  Steelhead is used now to enhance its desirability by the angling community. Every Pacific coast stream even in Asia has its own genetic distinction but we have been stocking fish that survive hatchery life best, not wild survival veteran fish.

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