Traits: Fish with deeply forked tail, adipose fin, and irregular shaped spots on a silver to dark gray background; animal (vertebrate).

Habitat: Throughout northern North America in cold lakes at high altitudes

Foods: Varies with age; young eat adult and larval insects (including midges, craneflies).  Adults eat fish (sticklebacks and whitefish).

Eaten by: Other fish, terns, grebes, loons, humans

Do You Know? Lake trout are seven or eight years old when they first spawn in Alaska. Thereafter they spawn every other year.