name: Rainbow Trout

flavor_db_name_variants: rainbow trout

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Rainbow trout

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name_scientific: Oncorhynchus mykiss

description: The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a species of salmonid native to tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America. The steelhead is a sea-run rainbow trout usually returning to freshwater to spawn after two to three years at sea; rainbow trout and steelhead trout are the same species. The fish are often called salmon trout. Several other fish in the salmonid family are called trout; some are anadromous like salmon, whereas others are resident in freshwater only. The species has been introduced for food or sport to at least 45 countries, and every continent except Antarctica. In some locations, such as Southern Europe, Australia and South America, they have negatively impacted upland native fish species, either by eating them, outcompeting them, transmitting contagious diseases, or hybridization with closely related species and subspecies that are native to western North America.

itis_id: 161989

wikipedia_id: Rainbow trout

picture_file_name: 454.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 77363

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:37:55.000Z

legacy_id: 481

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Fishes

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:42.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:25.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 8022

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00444