DCHP-3

Aurora trout

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a species of trout, Salvelinus timagamiensis, much prized as a game fish in Northern Ontario, where it was first reported near Kirkland Lake in 1924.

Quotations

1960
For 20 years Ontario fishing regulations have listed . . . Aurora trout. Yet only a handful of anglers have ever seen this brilliant blue and silver fish and not one has been legally caught since 1950.
1963
Opening of the season . . . on speckled trout, brown and Aurora trout . . . was greeted [with] enthusiasm by . . . fishermen. . . .