Sea Trout

Sea Trout
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see croaker.
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Croaker - member of the abundant and varied family Sciaenidae, carnivorous, spiny-finned fishes including the weakfishes, the drums, and the whitings.

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Underwater artist David Miller offers insights into the secret lives of sea trout.

Sea trout populations in recent years have seriously declined due to infestation by sea lice from salmon farms. Clover, Charles. 2004. The End of the Line: How overfishing is changing the world and what we eat. Ebury Press, London. ISBN 0-09-189780-7 ...

Spawning and nursery habitat for fish such as: striped bass, mangrove snapper, flounder, sea trout.
Resting stopover sites for migratory birds, including: Canada goose, peregrine falcon, whooping crane, indigo bunting.

Coregonus lavaretus (Common Whitefish)
Hucho hucho (Huchen)
Salmo carpio
Salmo salar (Atlantic salmon)
Salmo trutta (Brown Trout and Sea Trout)
Salvelinus alpinus (Arctic char)
Thymallus thymallus (Grayling) ...

In the Atlantic, the coastal dolphins feed mostly on sea trout, croakers, and spot. The offshore population follows the Gulf Stream and feeds on deep-water fish and squid.

The common loon that have a very freshwater diet mainly eat pike, perch, sunfish, trout, and bass. The common loon that have a more salt-water diet feed on rock fish, flounder, sea trout, and herring.

How To Eat Although the flesh is edible, most pigfish are used as excellent live bait for larger fish such as sea trout. Other The name pigfish was probably derived from the chattering noises they make when caught.

See also: Trout, Bass, Shrimp, Diver, Goose