User talk:Tstuart

Steelhead
Steelhead is not a true salmon. It is a family: salmonid and subfamily: Salmoninae. I appoligize I cannot give you an exact answer on this. I had purchased two (2) books just to answer this exact question, but I cannot find them.

Fishbase is no help: steelhead, coho salmon

In any case, by Wenesday of next week I can resolve this matter. I can tell you this much. It is a companion fish. Just like the Char swims with the salmon on the east coast, the steelhead swims with the salmon. I know this because I have an outline for this. If you have any questions or concerns, please use the Talk:Salmon page. Thanks --meatclerk 05:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

from tstuart: Steelhead is one of six Pacific salmon species listed in many documents, including sockeye, chinook, chum, pink, and coho, as well as steelhead. Steelhead are unique among Pacific salmon, in that adults do not always die after spawning in home waters. In coastal rivers, individual spawners have been observed returning as many as 6 times. In rivers like the Snake River Basin of Idaho, far inland, and where adult Steelhead must transit eight dams between Idaho and the Pacific, 'kelts ' (spawned-out adults) have very little chance of making mulitiple runs, on account of the human-created migration barriers. So, sorry to disagree that Steelhead are not true salmon. They are, in the Pacific region.