Subject: Blueback Trout

From: [email-masked] (paul antinori)
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:17:11 -0500

Does anyone know the scientific latin name for the "blueback" trout
species.  That's what I have heard it called here in Maine, but I can't
find a listing for it in my books.  

-Paul

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From: Scott Abernethy <[email-masked]>
Date: 20 Sep 1996 21:22:50 GMT

Until you asked, I would have thought you were referring to "blueback 
salmon, another name for landlocked sockeye salmon or kakanee.  Then I 
found an article http://www.idahonews.com/huntfish/sunapee.htm) that says 
that the blueback trout found in Maine is a remnant artic char strain.

" Recent evidence by fisheries biologists indicate that several
isolated populations of relict chars existing in the northeast
are closely related. Anatomic and chemical comparisons show no
consistent differences. Thus, the Blueback trout of Maine and
the Marstons or Red Trout of Quebec are classified with the
Sunapee as a subspecies of the Arctic char (Salvilinus alpinus)."

Hope this answers your question.  

Scott

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Thomas)
Date: 23 Sep 1996 16:43:24 GMT

>find a listing for it in my books.  

Perhaps it is a reference to the species commonly known as the Kokanee, 
or Silver Trout, at least in the Pacific Northwest?  It's a landlocked
version of the Sockeye (Red) Salmon, but as to the latin name, you'll 
have to get that from someone else....... :-\
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