On Food and Cooking

Trouts, Chars,  &   Relatives

Trout    family  relations   are     complicated.

Here’s  a   list    of  the more    common  species

and the part    of  the world   they    came    from.

Common
Name

Scientific

Name

Original

Home

Brown, salmon troutSalmo truttaEurope

Rainbow trout;
Steelhead
(seagoing)

Oncorhynchus

mykiss

W.  North

America,

Asia

Brook
trout

Salvelinus

fontinalis

E.  North

America

Lake
trout

Salvelinus

namaycush

N.  North

America

Arctic
char

Salvelinus

alpinus

N.  Europe  and Asia,   N.

North   America

Whitefish Coregonus
species

N.  Europe, North

America