Cutthroat Trout: (Oncorhynchus clarki)
Description
Original range included coastal streams from Alaska to northern California, eastward through the intermontane basins to the upper Missouri, Arkansas, Platte, Colorado and Rio Grande systems.
Coastal cutthroat trout occur as sea-run or freshwater-resident forms in streams and lakes along the coastal range from lower Southeast Alaska to Prince William Sound and are the most common trout species in the region.
The American species of Salmo were originally split by the Mississippi basin, and were represented in the east by the Atlantic salmon and in the west by the rainbow and cutthroat trouts.
Giger, R. D. 1972. Ecology and management of coastal cutthroat trout in Oregon. Fisheries Research Report 6. Oregon State Game Commission, Corvallis.
to fresh water, but many spend their adult life in the ocean and then return to spawn in the streams in which they were hatched. This is called anadromous reproduction and is more often seen in salmon. Brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat trout, ...
The lakes themselves only contain three-spined sticklebacks and cutthroat trout, and all are on islands.
 See also: Trout, Salmon, Rainbow Trout, Pacific salmon, Steelhead
  
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