Brook+Trout+History

  
 * Brook Trout History

 ** **__Origin:__** Brook trout are member of an ancient order of fish that had its beginning more than one hundred million years ago. They lived in a geological time zone with the dinosuars that develops higher forms of animals.

 **__Taxonomy:__** ** Kingdom: ** //Animalia //
 * Rank: ** Species

charr  [English] omble de fontaine   [French] salter   [English] sea trout   [English] trucha de arroyo   [Spanish]
 * Vernacular name(s): ** brook trout [English]

<span style="font-size: 20pt; color: green; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-decoration: none; msofareastfontfamily: Batang;"> They first originated from the great lakes and the moved to the Appalachian Mountains.
 * __<span style="font-size: 20pt; color: green; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang;">Past locations: __**

<span style="font-size: 20pt; color: green; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-decoration: none; msofareastfontfamily: Batang;"> <span style="font-size: 20pt; color: green; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang;">**__Present locations:__** They are all over the world They came the state fish back in the 1970’s
 * __Date it became the PA State Fish:__**

<span style="font-size: 20pt; color: green; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; text-decoration: none; msofareastfontfamily: Batang;"> <span style="font-size: 20pt; color: green; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: Batang;">**__Interesting Facts:__** 1. Back in Minnesota's lumberjack days, logging outfits used to transport brook trout in milk cans and stock them in north woods streams. 2. The fish would then provide meals for the loggers.