JR wrote:

Conan The Librarian wrote:

Howdy,

Ran across this on another forum. It's a paper about the discovery
of a "new" species of wild trout in Mexico in an Atlantic drainage:
http://www.americanfishes.com/conchoswhitepaper.pdf

For more background on wild trout in Mexico, check out this
article:
https://webspace.utexas.edu/deanhend...ican_trout.pdf

From an *Atlantic* drainage. WOW.

Yep. It was well-established that there were trout in Baja, but
this is big news.

Thanks for the links. The best single source on Mexican trout I had was
the americanfishes.com page

http://www.americanfishes.com/mexico/

but the Hendrickson et al. article blows it away.....

Absolutely. I had run across the americanfishes.com stuff a year so
so ago as a result of someone (here maybe?) posting a link to the
illustrations, but this article does a great job of synthesizing all of
the previous research.

FWIW, my interest in all this is somewhat selfish. SWMBO and I may
wind up retiring to Mexico, and it would sure be nice to be able to
chase some wild trout there. But there's a lot of work to be done if
those fish are to survive.


Chuck Vance