How to Identify Salmon and Trout of the Great Lakes

Learn how to identify salmon and trout species caught from Great Lakes waters. This video focuses on lake phase adult fish and includes content from Salmon and Trout of the Great Lakes: A Visual Identification Guide brochure. The brochure and other identification resources are available at: www.michiganseagrant.org/salm...
Lake Trout and Brook Trout 0:12
Pink Salmon 1:35
Coho and Chinook Salmon 2:40
Steelhead/Rainbow Trout 1:50
Brown Trout and Atlantic Salmon 5:35
Michigan Sea Grant thanks New York Sea Grant (NYSG) for their contributions to this educational video. The video is based on a brochure, Salmon and Trout of the Great Lakes (2019) that resulted from a collaboration between New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant programs, a document which updated NYSG’s Salmon and Trout of Lake Ontario (2012).
We sincerely thank John Lyons, Brian Roth, and Roger Greil for valuable review comments regarding salmonine identification and Katelyn Brolick for captioning.
Atlantic Salmon, Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Chinook Salmon, Coho Salmon, Lake Trout, Pink Salmon, and Steelhead/Rainbow Trout artwork by Peter Thompson. Reprinted with permission of New York Sea Grant. Photos by Dan O’Keefe unless otherwise noted. Images are not to be duplicated or published without permission.
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