When the General Assembly of Pennsylvania officially made the brook trout the state fish March 9, 1970, there wasn’t really ...

More information: Justin Waraniak et al, Landscape transcriptomic analysis detects thermal stress responses and potential ...

Aa Aa Aa Over the past 100 years, brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, (Figure 1) have experienced extensive declines throughout their native range. Declines have been especially precipitous in the ...

Salvelinus means they’re part of the salmon family that’s native to eastern North America and fontinalis in Latin means “of a spring or fountain” and refers to the brookies’ native ...