species| Trout |
 TROUT | The Trout has a large mouth, lower jaw reaching well beyond hind margin of eye, upper jaw to or beyond same point. Its teeth are well developed on the jaws, tongue, palatines and on head of vomer (but shaft toothless and with a boat shaped depression, thus no teeth in entre of palate). Anal fin with 7-10 branched fin rays. Scales minute, 190-250 in lateral line. Body with light spots (red, orange, pink or yellow) on dark background. SIZE | Up to 88 cm and 15 kilos, usually 30-50 cm. DEPTH | The Trout does not normally go into deep waters. It mostly swims close to land. COLOUR | Black dark bluish, flanks bluish-grey or green with small red or orange spots, belly often silvery, becomming red in spawning males (but yellowish in females and immature fishes). CHARACTERISTICS | The trout has a large mouth, lower reaching well beyond hind margin of eye, upper jaw to or beyond same point. FOOD | Fishes (small gadids and cottids, capelin, sand-eels, smelt) and crustaceans, amphipods, molluscs, insects, also fishes. REPRODUCTION | Ascending rivers between July and September according to locality, spawning in September to November, usually in rivers at 4-11 years old; adults remain in rivers until winter ice breaks, returning to sea with the first floods; juveniles migrate to sea at 2-3 years, rarely at 4-5 years. WHERE TO CATCH IT | The Trout breeds in the North Atlantic southward to southern Norway, also Iceland and southern Greenland, not far from river mouths; non-migratory and land-locked relict populations well to south of this (British Isles, central France). Elsewhere, circumpolar. See also map below. |
