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Brown Trout Mug
Up close and personal with a female brown trout. We (the biologist I was working with and myself) sampled this trout while completing a population survey on the Priest River, Idaho. I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to take a click, as I never catch fish like this myself! This fish was released unharmed.
The brown trout is an originally European species of salmonid fish. It includes both purely freshwater populations, referred to "Salmo trutta" morpha "fario" and "S. trutta" morpha "lacustris", and anadromous forms known as the sea trout, "S. trutta" morpha "trutta". The latter migrates to the oceans for much of its life and returns to freshwater only to spawn.
Similar species: Salmonids
By travismorhardt
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Uploaded Nov 6, 2013. Captured Jul 14, 2011 13:54 in Priest River, ID 83856, USA.
