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splake
[< speckled + lake trout]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a hybrid game fish of the trout family, developed by Canadian biologists.
Quotations
1954
[Canadian] Biologists who developed the fish . . . had named it Splake.
1957
In 1953, the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests stocked 3,600 splake in Chrysler Lake.
1966
The splake, Canada's newest game fish, is being put to the use for which it was specifically bred--combatting the ravages of the sea lamprey in the Great Lakes.