Meet your Fish
British Columbia’s fresh and tidal waters are home to an exciting variety of fish ViC CarraO phOtO
that lure anglers from all over the world. Here are just a few of the many species
you may find tugging on your line.
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Vancouver Island
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Vancouver, Coast and Mountains
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Thompson Okanagan
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Kootenay Rockies
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Cariboo Chilcotin Coast
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Northern BC
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alsO knOWn as king salMOn Or
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alsO knOWn as silVer salMOn,
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springs and, iF OVer 30 pOunds, COhO are Bright silVer in COlOur
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strOng, deterMined Fighters On
light taCkle, sOCkeye are silVer-
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the salMOn and are highly prized a
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and erratiC Fights. MOst COhO
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knOWn FOr their deep, pink Flesh
and exCellent eating. sOCkeye Fry,
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spend 18 MOnths at sea, stay-
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spaWning grOunds, usually large returning tO their hOMe streaM
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Where they spend One tO tWO years
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aVerage size: 0.9 tO 14 kg (2 tO 30 lBs)
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aVerage size: 2.2 tO 3 kg (5 tO 7 lBs)
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sMaller triButaries. Fry spend a year Or
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OCCasiOnally reaChing 6.3 kg (14 lBs)
MOre in FreshWater.
aVerage size: 1.5 tO 38 kg (3 tO 80 lBs)
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rainBOW trOut are the MOst
pOpular OF the FreshWater Fish.
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BrOWn trOut haVe a Very liMited WestslOpe CutthrOat trOut
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Originated in the kOOtenay
trOut as large as 16 kilOgraMs (35 reaCh Weights OF 6 kilOgraMs (13 l rOCkies in sOutheastern
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pOunds) haVe Been pulled FrOM BC
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pOunds) On VanCOuVer island.
lakes. kaMlOOps rainBOW trOut BrOWn trOut are alsO present tO a e
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seldOM large in high-alpine lakes,
in the WOrld. gerrard rainBOWs they grOW tO Very respeCtaBle
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sizes in lOWer eleVatiOn lakes and
and are FOund in kOOtenay lake and
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streaMs in the kOOtenay rOCkies.
Other lakes in sOuth and Central BC. aVerage size: 0.5 tO 1 kg
aVerage size: 0.5 tO 5 kg (1 tO 11 lBs) (1 tO 2.2 lBs)
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lingCOd BelOng tO the greenling
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FeW Meals Can riVal a Feast
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BC rOCkFish COMe in all shapes,
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FaMily and are the Only Canadian
OF West COast shellFish. the sizes, and COlOurs and are priMar-
greenlings that haVe Canine-like
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tO desCriBe aquatiC inVerteBrate haVe lOng liVes (up tO 115 years
Weigh up tO 45 kilOgraMs (100 pOunds),
aniMals (WithOut a BaCkBOne). in BC
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FOr red snapper) and dO nOt Breed
With the FeMales attaining a larger
Waters, shellFish inClude CraB and until they are BetWeen seVen and 18
aVerage size than the Males. Many
praWns, WhiCh are MOst COMMOnly years Old, depending On the speCies.
anglers release Mature FeMales tO
Caught using traps FrOM BOats, as rOCkFish in BC inClude red snapper
allOW theM tO spaWn and retain the
Well as ClaMs, Oysters, sCallOps, Mus- (yellOWeye), quillBaCk, tiger (piCtured),
sMaller, tastier Males.
sels, squid, and OCtOpus. and COpper.
aVerage size: 3.5 tO 7 kgs (8 tO 15 lBs) aVerage size: 30 tO 50 CM (12 tO 19.5 in)
depending On speCies
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