and thats the thing esox they all have to be anadromous or they wouldn't come back into the streams to spawn then return to the lake! even the "domestics" are acting like the steelhead ...add to this it happens everywhere ...good example are the finger lakes ....
Not really ..... If you look at the defenition of
Andromous Our steelhead do not live in the ocean.... But the strain they came from DOES !!
Also the term Domestic Rainbow... the term domestic comes from the fact that the stocked fish come from a captively raised broodstock. Our Stocked steelhead come from wild fish that live in the lake and run the rivers and then collected.
http://www.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish_marine_pdf/lorpt10.pdf (Domestic). A captive broodstock which
reaches maturity in a hatchery, regardless of the
source of the eggs that they were derived from.
W (Wild). A broodstock which spends a
significant amount of time and achieve most
growth in a lake or river, including both fish from
natural reproduction as well as feral fish stocked
at an earlier life stage. Adult fish may be held in
captivity for several weeks or months until eggs
are ready to be stripped.