Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volume

104

Issue

1

Publisher

American Fisheries Society

Publication Date

1-1975

Keywords

food, distribution, underyearling brook, rainbow trout, Castle Lake, California

First Page

88

Last Page

95

Abstract

A difference was found in the summer distribution of underyearling brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill), and planted rainbow trout, Salmo gairdneri Richardson, in Castle Lake, California. Brook trout underyearlings oriented to the bottom and were found primarily in shallow water on the eastern shore of the lake near springs. The rainbow trout underyearlings were more pelagic and were found in the littoral areas along the entire shoreline. Gravimetrically, the food eaten during the summer by brook trout underyearlings was 13% terrestrial, 11% limnetic, and 76% benthic. Rainbow trout ate 15% terrestrial, 15% limnetic, and 70% benthic food. In summer, rainbow trout adults are located in the epilimnion in Castle Lake, whereas adult brook trout are found near the bottom of the lake beyond the littoral zone. Due to this spatial isolation, their diets differ considerably. An earlier study showed that during the summer, adult brook trout ate 20% terrestrial, 31% limnetic, and 49% benthic food (by volume). Adult rainbow trout ate 49% terrestrial, 33% limnetic, and 18% benthic food.

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