People have sought these fish for physical, emotional, and spiritual sustenance through secular and sacred rituals for at least 10,000 years. Salmon and "trout," in particular, are the subject of human expression in song, story, poetry, painting, and sculpture for at least as long.

You won't get any of that from me; I'm not expressive enough. You have enough imagination, I think, to make your own dreams about them. My own experiences with these fish occupy many of mine. Occasionally, though I find that others have said something worthwhile about these fish and fishing; some of those people are of European tradition, others are from various indigenous traditions.

"Salmonids" (Fam: Salmonidae) refers to several kinds of fish that evolved in the northern hemisphere. Depending on the scientific authority, there are up to 12 genera of Salmonidae: Acantholingua, Brachymystax, Coregonus, Hucho, Oncorhynchus, Parahucho, Prosopium, Salmo, Salvelinus, Salvethymus, Stenodus, and Thymallus. On top of this, a few other genera conflict with these; e.g., Rhabdofario and Parasalmo. A few salmonids are unclassified. I've written a brief page about salmonid taxonomy and, more generally, scientific taxonomy.

I found some worthwhile resources about salmonids on-line. I have included these links on related pages. These mostly non-commercial sites are useful insofar as they foster dreams, which are much better than anything you can find anywhere on- or off-line, except for the real thing.

Every now and then, though, someone records a worthwhile thought about fish or fishing.

The following pages are my own almost complete species lists of North American salmon, trout, char, and grayling by common name or by scientific name.

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Salmon, Trout, Char, and Grayling

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