Searching For The Lost Yellowfin Cutthroat

March 8, 2024 By: Spencer Durrant

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Photo: USFWS Mountain-Prairie

In this great story by Chris Hunt, you’ll learn about a currently extinct subspecies of cutthroat trout – the yellowfin. This fish was thought to grow to 30 inches long, and weigh nearly 10 pounds, according to Hunt. And one biologist in Colorado is tasked with, among other jobs, discovering if any relict populations of the yellowfin cutthroat still exist.

You can read the story here.