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Sunday 11 November 2012

Arctic Char

Arctic char is closely related to both salmon and trout and has many characteristics of both. It is distributed throughout the polar regions and is the most northerly distributed of char and its closely related cousin, the Dolly Varden. The most northerly ranging fish, 800 kilometers below the North Pole. During the spring thaw, seagoing char migrate to the ocean where they spend the next few months. While most char live above the arctic circle, relic populations of landlocked char are also found throughout northern Europe and in parts of North America and Asia, stranded in glacial lakes at the end of the last ice age. Arctic char, also known as also known as Arctic charr, Alpine char, Alpine trout, Salmon trout, Sea trout, is both a freshwater and saltwater fish native to Arctic, sub-Arctic and alpine lakes and coastal waters across the northern polar regions. They widely distributed in pure and cold rivers and lakes from the northeastern United States north and west across northern Canada, Alaska, and the Aleutian Islands, and from northern Russia south to Lake Baikal and Kamchatka, as well as in Greenland, Norway, Iceland, Great Britain, Scandinavia, Ireland, Spitsbergen, the Alps, up to an altitude of 2600 m., and the islands of the Barents Sea.