name: Lake Trout
flavor_db_name_variants: lake trout
source: foodb
status: draft
food_db_id: Lake trout
id: 582
name_scientific: Salvelinus namaycush
description: Lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) is a freshwater char living mainly in lakes in northern North America. Other names for it include mackinaw, lake char (or charr), touladi, togue, and grey trout. In Lake Superior, it can also be variously known as siscowet, paperbelly and lean. The lake trout is prized both as a game fish and as a food fish. Lake trout are the largest of the charrs; the record weighed almost 46.3 kilograms (102 lb) (netted) with a length of 50 inches (127 cm), and 15? to 40-pound fish are not uncommon. The average length is 24-36 inches (61?92 cm). The largest caught on a rod and reel according to the IGFA was 72 pounds (33 kg), caught in Great Bear Lake in 1995 with a length of 59 inches (150 cm).
itis_id: 162002
wikipedia_id: Lake_trout
picture_file_name: 596.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 69417
picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:36:59.000Z
legacy_id: 623
food_group: Aquatic foods
food_subgroup: Fishes
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:50.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:28.000Z
creator_id: null
updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 8040
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00582