steelhead trout
Anadromous Pacific salmonid
Steelhead trout is a rainbow trout that migrates to the ocean and returns to freshwater to spawn, like salmon.
The ocean journey transforms them—they grow larger and develop a silvery, steel-blue coloring that gives them their name.
Prized by sport fishers for their size and fight: He landed a twelve-pound steelhead on the Rogue River.
- chromeReflective metal coating
- runMove swiftly on foot
- salmonidSalmon-family fish
- spawning groundsWhere fish reproduce
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
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- California natureCalifornia condor, California poppy, California sea lion, coast redwood, redwood
- salmonidsAtlantic salmon, chinook salmon, coho salmon, king salmon, pink salmon
- oily fishsalmon, tuna, sardine, sardines, anchovy
- salmon fisheriessalmon fishing, chinook salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, pink salmon
habitat zone
steelhead trouttropical fish
Warm-water ornamental species
pond fish · largemouth bass · carp · channel catfish · tilapia