Bull Trout Dolly Varden

Salvelinus confluentus also called the bull trout or inland dolly varden is most closely associated with pristine mountainous areas of the northwestern United States and Canada where cold clean waters flow.

Bull trout dolly varden. Bull trout are listed as a threatened species under the US. Malma but was reclassified as a separate species in 1980. Published in 1978 identified bull trout as distinct from Dolly Varden.

Confluentus is confined to northwestern North America from Alaska to northern California Bjornn 1991. Salvelinus malma or Dolly Varden Char or Trout Bull Trout Red-Spotted Rocky Mountain Trout Red Spotted Trout or Char Pacific or Western Brook Char or Trout Sea Trout or Char Salmon-Trout DESCRIPTION - The average length of the fresh water form is 12-18 inches long and 18-24 inches in anadromous stocks. They inhabit the most pristine streams and look quite similar resulting in uncertainties about their relative distributions overlap and genetic mixing.

Bull trout are actually char a related species of salmonid that prefers cold water. Its a common misnomer brook trout and Mackinaw trout are also char. The dolly varden is more closely related to the arctic char in the North and the bull trout is more closely related to the whitespotted char in Asia.

Gaming is my passion and my way of sharing my craziness with the world. The plan does not represent a consensus of all entities managing native char. The remote site is accessed only with a special permit and is the worlds largest seasonal population of brown bears.

The Bull Trout and Dolly Varden Management Plan describes the goal objectives and strategies that will be used by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Department for managing bull trout and Dolly Varden in Washington. Confluentus has been known as the Dolly Varden. A large grizzly bear boar known as Braveheart carries a Dolly Varden trout after catching it in the upper McNeil River falls at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary on the Kenai Peninsula Alaska.

Often considered a pest or unsporting fish. For a long time it was believed that these fish were all strains of Arctic char scientific name. The bull trout Salvelinus confluentus is a char of the family Salmonidae native to northwestern North America.