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splake

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splake [spleɪk]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a type of hybrid trout bred by Canadian zoologists
[from sp(eckled) + lake (trout)]


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Cold freshwater fishes identified are the landlocked salmon, splake, arctic charr and the trouts- brown, brook, lake and rainbow.
Williams has no doubt that hybrids like tiger trout, splake, wipers, saugey and tiger muskies grow bigger and faster in certain waters, and that triploid salmonids grow bigger and faster, too.
Adult growth in splake trout is faster than in either of its two parent species, with many fish known to grow as long as 18 inches in length in just two years.
 
 
 
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