On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:47:41 -0800 (PST), merryb >
wrote:

>On Feb 19, 9:19*am, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:13:39 -0500, Dave Smith
>>
>> > wrote:
>> >On 18/02/2012 5:32 PM, sf wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:44:59 -0800 (PST), >
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> >>> Trout is a fish I have never bought- usually it's halibut or salmon.
>>
>> >> If you ever see steelhead trout (red fleshed rainbow trout that have
>> >> been at sea) - buy some, it's delicious!
>>
>> >It sure is.
>>
>> I agree. *Here Costco sells *steelhead "salmon." *This came up here
>> about a year ago and I did some googling. *The sites all have
>> something a little different about it. *This site words it in a simple
>> way if it's accurate.
>>
>> From he
>>
>> http://www.gosalmonfishing.com/salmo...-steelhead.php
>>
>> Steelhead salmon (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are commonly known as trout,
>> but in fact they are a species of salmon native to the Pacific region.
>> Land locked steelheads are also known as rainbow trout; in fact that
>> is their common name. The term steelhead is used to differentiate
>> between those rainbows that stay in fresh water permanently and those
>> that go out to the ocean. Both rainbow and steelhead trout will return
>> to the place where they hatched in order to spawn; therefore,
>> steelheads are an anadromous species. Unlike their Pacific salmon
>> cousins, steelheads and rainbows can spawn numerous times before
>> dying.
>
>Thanks- that is kinda confusing as I have always heard them referred
>to as a salmon!

Let's just call them cousins.

Lou