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Finally, a Real Solution for Declining Salmon Stocks...

428 views 4 replies 3 participants last post by  Preston Singletary 
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For those of you who missed the memo, ichthyologists removed rainbow trout/steelhead (now Oncorhynchus mykiss) from the genus Salmo in 1989 to place it in the genus Oncorhynchus, that of the Pacific salmons. This was done because a survey of morphological characteristics showed a much closer affinity with Oncorhynchus than that with the genus Salmo (Atlantic Salmon and Brown Trout). This is also true of the cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki).
 
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