Lahontan cutthroat trout are obligate freshwater spawners, meaning their eggs can’t survive naturally in Pyramid Lake’s salty waters.

The Lahontan cutthroat trout was rediscovered in a "dinky" stream near the Nevada-Utah border. Genetic testing by University of Nevada, Reno Associate Professor of Biology Mary Peacock led to the ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. – Over 15,000 Lahontan cutthroat trout are settling into their new Tahoe home after a release spanning the last couple of weeks. The Lahontan National Fish Hatchery ...

By 1880, the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout was noted to have 'completely dissapeared' out near Farad through Verdi, NV. Most of this was due to California log-mills dumping sawdust into the river. Then ...

Summit Lake in remote northwest Nevada is home to the only self-sustaining, robust, lake population of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, North America's largest freshwater native trout species. Research ...

In 1989 biologists counted only 8,000 Lahontan trout in the Whitehorse basin. During the most recent population survey in 2011, the population was estimated at 23,800, the ODFW reported.

Population dynamics of threatened Lahontan cutthroat trout in Summit Lake, Nevada. Scientific Reports, 2020; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65992-0; ...

Lahontan cutthroat trout today occupy far less of a habitat, spanning about 480 miles of streams and five lakes. Self-sustaining populations of the species occur in 10 percent of the historic ...

Federal officials are making fish-friendly modifications to a northern Nevada dam that has blocked native spawning grounds for a threatened trout species that once migrated 120 miles from a high ...

The winter fishing season is off to a noteworthy start in Idaho as one angler has already pulled a record trout through the ice. Jordan Rodriguez, after boring a hole on newly frozen-over Grasmere ...

The Lahontan cutthroat trout was rediscovered in a "dinky" stream near the Nevada-Utah border. Genetic testing by Associate Professor of Biology Mary Peacock led to the rediscovery of an iconic Nevada ...