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Brown trout

The brown trout is the most successful of New Zealand’s introduced fish species. A predatory fish which prefers clear cool streams and the edges of lakes, it is the most commonly caught large freshwater fish.

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by Carl Walrond

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Carl Walrond, Trout and salmon – Brown trout, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19575/brown-trout (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.