{"id":63461,"date":"2025-09-14T13:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T07:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=63461"},"modified":"2025-09-16T15:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:56:14","slug":"brown-trout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brown-trout\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Trout"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Brown Trout Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Kashmir fisheries department plans to reintroduce the Brown trout back into the Valley for game.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Brown Trout<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The brown trout (Salmo trutta) is a species of <\/span><b>salmonid ray-finned fish<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been widely <\/span><b>introduced globally as a game fish.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one of the world&#8217;s worst invasive species outside of its native range.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a cold-water fish that prefers cool and <\/span><b>well-oxygenated water.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Appearance:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It usually grows to between 15 and 22 inches in length and between 1 and 5 pounds, the trout is <\/span><b>considered a popular game fish.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Breeding Season:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> October\/November is the breeding season for this fish.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is best suited to freshwaters; this fish spends much of its time in crevices between boulders in streams.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The native range extends from <\/span><b>northern Norway<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and White Sea tributaries in Russia in the Arctic Ocean to the <\/span><b>Atlas Mountains in North Africa.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The western limit of their native range is Iceland in the north Atlantic, while the eastern limit is in Aral Sea tributaries in Afghanistan and Pakistan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In India, the British first introduced the brown trout in the Valley\u2019s streams in 1900.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Conservation Status:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Least Concern (IUCN Red List)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/long-reads\/kashmir-fisheries-department-is-reviving-its-brown-trout-population-one-stream-at-a-time-10248481\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown Trout is a species of salmonid ray-finned fish and the most widely distributed species of the genus Salmo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":63642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2686,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-63461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-brown-trout","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}