1. By Justin Herrell
Wildlife 5 th Period

2.  The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
 Kingdom:Animalia
 Phylum:Chordata
 Class:Actinopterygii
 Subclass:Neopterygii
 Infraclass:Teleostei
 Order:Salmoniformes
 Family:Salmonidae
 Genus:Oncorhynchus
 Species:O. mykiss

3.  Rainbow trout like to inhabit cold headwaters, creeks,
rivers, cool lakes, estuaries, and oceans. Some genetic
strains of rainbow trout will live in up to all of these
habitats in their lives if available. Good trout stream
habitat is complex with riffles and pools, submerged
wood, boulders, undercut banks, and aquatic
vegetation.

4.  Rainbow trout eat a wide variety of food including
crayfish, terrestrial insects, such as grasshoppers and
ants, and bottom-dwelling aquatic invertebrates, such
as crustaceans, plankton, snails, and leeches, as well as
small fish and fish eggs are also eaten by rainbow
trout.

5.  Rainbow trout live in the cool waters of the Northern
Hemisphere but have been introduced throughout the
world.

6.  Egg, alevin, fry, fingerling, adult, spawning adult.
 Average full grown adult size is 20" to 30" and weighs
usually up to 8 lbs
 There are two types of rainbow trout, the freshwater
river rainbow trout and the anadramous rainbow trout.

7.  The rainbow trout are native to the drainages of the
Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska as well as the
eastern coast of Asia. This is their original, natural
range.
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8.  Humans farm rainbow trout to eat as well as fish for
them for sport.
 Hey you guys! Guess how much the largest rainbow
trout ever recorded weighed!

9.  The largest rainbow trout on record weighed 57 lbs
(25.8 kg) and was estimated to be 11 years old.
 The rainbow trout is placed among the top five sport
fishes in North America, and it is considered by many
to be the most important game fish west of the Rocky
Mountains.
 Their verage life span in the wild is 4 to 6 years

10.  Rainbow trout are in the news sometimes for
community fish releases and stocking of ponds and
lakes.

11.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_trout
 http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/rainb
ow-trout/
 http://bss.sfsu.edu/holzman/courses/fall01%20projects/rai
nbow%20trout.htm
 http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/wdb/pub/hsi/hsi-060.pdf
 http://www.fisheyesoup.com/article_details/491.html