Brook Trout Life History

The Harper Creek research project is multifaceted using cutting edge high tech science to learn about urban stream ecology in addition to opening a window into the life history of our resilient brook trout population and you can be a part of it.

Brook trout life history. 2019-01-31 Brook trout enter their spawning season in early September which can continue for some fish through October depending on water conditions. Brook Trout are the only native salmonid troutsalmon in PAs rivers. It is the only stream trout that is native to Pennsylvania.

There is typically a 95-100 day egg incubation period. As the Laurentide ice sheet retreated between 8000 and 13000 years ago you can imagine these cold water-loving trout at the edge of the melting ice following the newly fissured streams into the greening hills. Again this is also water temperature dependent.

2014-09-24 Brook trout were among the first colonizers back to our region after the last natural apocalypse. These areas are often referred to as nurseries. On average a brook trout lives two to three years.

2010-03-17 The life history of brook trout. By the end of their first summer juvenile brook trout are typically about three to four inches 7 to 10 centimeters long. After emerging from the gravel young Brook Trout prefer the quiet shallow edges areas of streams and small brooks.

Life History Brook trout spawn in the fall and hatching occurs in January. In addition many tributaries including Lake Superior tributaries do not produce coaster brook trout but retain resident brook trout. Larger brook trout often inhabit deep instream pools moving to shallow water feed.

Within the Lake Superior basin some brook trout. It describes the history of the fish from a regional perspective explaining why for example the fishing in New York is the way it. Brook trout size and life history.