Sevan Trout

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Sevan trout is an endemic fish species of Lake Sevan in Armenia. It is a salmonid fish related to the brown trout. The fish is endangered, because various competitors were introduced into the lake during the Soviet period, including common whitefish (Coregonus lavaretus) from Lake Ladoga, goldfish (Carasius auratus) and narrow-clawed crayfish (Astacus leptodactylus), and of lake level change. On ther hand, the Sevan trout itself has been successfully introduced to the Issyk Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan.