Lake trout

Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include Lake char, Touladi and Grey trout.

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It is a fairly large fish, probably the largest trout, the record weighing almost 46.3 kilograms. It was fished commercially in the Great Lakes until lampreys and pollution decimated the population. Small commercial fisheries still exist in lakes in northern Canada.

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Fishbase description of Lake trout

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North America: North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocean. It covers an area of 9,355,000 square miles (24,230,000 square kilometers). In 2...

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