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XVIII.—The Food and Feeding of the Brown Trout (Salmo trutta L.) in Relation to the Organic Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

R. M. Neill
R. M. Neill
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University of Aberdeen.
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Precise information about the food of the brown trout is somewhat scanty, especially as regards the relation existing between diet and environmental fauna.

(a) Day (1887) points out that “food which (brown) trout consume is of various descriptions. … They do not object to little fish, as the minnow, loach, sticklebacks, etc., water rats, young birds, frogs, snails, slugs, worms, leeches, maggots, flies, beetles, moths, waterspiders and even a lizard.” He concluded that the “tastes of some differ from those of their companions.”

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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , 1938 , pp. 481 - 520
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1938

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