Brook Trout (IMAGE)

Penn State

Brook Trout

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Populations of wild brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis -- an economically, socially and ecologically important species of conservation concern -- have declining precipitously throughout the fish's native range in the eastern United States.

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Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences

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