Lake Trout
Salvelinus namaycush
- Class
- Ray-finned fish
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 964
- Most observed in
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
The lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in Northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, namaycush, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, laker, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Those caught with dark coloration may be called mud hens.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Lake trout”.