>Having a Pacific Northwest Fisheries background, I do not know much about
>Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar).
>
>Can someone please tell if Atlantic Salmon are trout or salmon.
>
>I maintain a stream habitat education world wide web page and I would
>like to add the Atlantic Salmon to my fish list.  Should I include the
>Atlantic Salmon in my anadromous salmon page or my trout page?
>
>
>My educational web site is at:
>http://www.psmfc.org/habitat/fishfacts.html
>
>
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>Gary Christofferson ([log in to unmask])
>Data Technician, StreamNet Project
>Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
>45 SE 82nd Drive, Suite 100
>Gladstone, OR 97027-2522
>(503)650-5400
>http:\\www.streamnet.org\

Here's what I tell my students:

Some salmon are trout and some trout are charr,
But some trout are salmon, adult or parr,
Whitefish are whitefish and ciscoes the same
And grayling are grayling, they have the right name.

It's very confusing, it's really a mess,
You can't tell by looking, you really must guess;
So next time you're tempted to call salmon trout,
Use name scientific, it's the only way out.



George LaBar, Head
Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844