DCHP-1 Online

silver trout B.C.

• 1 a large game fish, Salmo gairdneri kamloops, native to the upper Columbia and Fraser Rivers; a landlocked steelhead.

  See also: Kamloops (trout)  

  • 1907  Every local fisherman speaks of having caught a red side or a silver trout, and firmly believes they are distinct species. . . .
  • 1922  The streams and rivers were full of trout--mountain, silver and speckled.

• 2 a dwarf landlocked salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi, native to southern British Columbia.

  See also: kokanee  

  • 1937  The Kokanee or "Silver Trout," which is in reality a landlocked Sockeye salmon, abounds in the larger lakes of the district. . . .