If you're asking about the United States a good resource is the FDA
"fish list" that gives approved market names at
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/seaintro.html
A search for steel head results in this:
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NOTE: Use of the vernacular name is not encouraged, and may cause the
seafood to be misbranded.
*** Anyone interested in marketing these fish should contact the Office
of Seafood with suggested market names.
Market name(s)
Trout, Rainbow or Steelhead
Scientific name
Oncorhynchus mykiss
Common name
Rainbow Trout
Vernacular name(s)
Coastal Rainbow Trout
Silver Trout
Salmon
Brook Trout
Rainbow Trout
Amilcar Caputo wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody is in the salmon business: Knowing that
> Oncorhynchus spp. salmo salar is salmon, can anybody legally label
> steelhead salmon (trout) - Oncorhynchus mykiss - as salmon?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Amilcar
>
>
-- Liz Brown Assistant Professor Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences University of Alaska Fairbanks PO Box 1549 Dillingham, Alaska 99576 907-842-1265 fax 907-842-3202 http://seagrant.uaf.edu/map
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