Brown Trout Distribution

Source: Inland Fishes of New York

The image on this page was taken from an out-of-print book, published in 1985, entitled The Inland Fishes of New York State. It is a comprehensive field guide for species identification, and includes a distribution map for each species.

Since the copyright is owned by State DEC, it has been scanned in its entirety (at 400 dpi), and the entire volume was freely distributed by the State of New York.  The link from where I downloaded it in 2006 is now dead, so I'm making it available here:

Inland Fishes of New York State: Part 1 | Part 2

For your convenience, I've extracted the distribution maps from this volume for Brook Trout, Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout.  These PDFs capture all of the resolution that is in the original scan by the State of NY.  Each is roughly 2,000 pixels wide and is around 1.2 MB to download.  The files are optimized for screen viewing.  To print them, you'll either need to do it in sections, or have Adobe Acrobat reduce it to fit the page:

[Brook Trout] [Brown Trout] [Rainbow Trout]

It's also instructive to overlay this view of trout distribution with the color image of brook trout distribution created from the original EBTJV dataset.

Here's the Inland Fishes Brown Trout Distribution on top of the color brook trout image:

Source: Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture
ArcIMS by NBII Southern Appalachian Information Node
Inland Fishes of New York

And here's an overlay of the Inland Fishes Brook Trout Distribution (brook on brook):

Source: Eastern Brook Trout Joint Venture
ArcIMS by NBII Southern Appalachian Information Node
Inland Fishes of New York

I've found it interesting to speculate on both the consistencies and inconsistencies of these data.  Keep in mind the significant age difference.  But it also points out the difference in methodologies: in particular, distribution maps such as Inland Fishes, which merely indicate a spot if a survey finds the species, say very little about whether the fishing is any good.  We'll just have to explore places and find out.