[Sca-cooks] Re:Trout & Salmon was Question to the Group

[johnna holloway]

Trout are a group of fish in the genus Salmo,
of which Salmon also belong.
The brown trout Salmo trutta is the original
European species. Now found in the Americas,
Australia, Africa, etc.

Rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri and the cutthroat
trout, Salmo clarkii, are both North American natives
that have been intoduced to European waters.

In addition two varieties of char or Salvelinus are
also known as trout, these being Salvelinus fontinalis
or brook trout and the Salvelinus namaycush or lake trout.
Both are native to North America.

As to Salmon, The Atlantic Salmon is Salmo Salar which had
a range from Portugal to Scandinavia and across the North
Atlantic to Greenland and the coast of New England. The Pacific
Salmon has 5 distinct species, but these would not have been
the salmon of medieval England. See Barbour for details.
See Davidson Oxford Companion to Food and Andrew Barbour's
Atlantic Salmon. An Illustrated History. Canongate Press, 1992.

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway




Gary Walker wrote:
> umm, isn't Scottish "salmon" what Amuricn's call "trout"?  and Salmon as
> known on the west coast of the US (I'm in Oregon) aren't known in Europe at
> all?> Chimene,