Overall the Ohrid trouts are silvery in colour, with black dots.

In recent years extensive fishing has driven the Ohrid trout to the verge of extinction, though there are several conservation activities.

The Ohrid trout, which is a form of salmon, can also be found in parts of the river from time to time.

Ohrid trout was stocked and it successfully adapted to the environment, making it a popular for fishing.

Ohrid trout is part of the brown trout complex, and therefore its taxonomic status is controversial.

It has also been intentionally hybridized with another endemic species, the Ohrid trout (Salmo letnica).

Salmo letnica (Ohrid trout)

The Ohrid trout is a specialty in Macedonian and Albanian gastronomy; it is used for soups and other dishes.

In addition to the Ohrid trout, Lake Ohrid has another endemic and truly distinct salmonid, Salmo ohridanus.

These include brown and Ohrid trout, perch, minnow, barbel, grass carp, common carp, crucian carp, tench, roach and others.

The Ohrid trout has been successfully translocated to and bred in the Vlasina Lake in Serbia, during the 1950s and 1960s; current population status is unknown.

Within the Ohrid trout itself, up to four intralacustrine forms have been separated, which are treated as distinct species in the FishBase and by the IUCN.

Salmo aphelios is one of four different forms of the Ohrid trout complex within the single lake, along with Salmo balcanicus, Salmo letnica and Salmo lumi.

Skanderbeg celebrated the event by dining off letnica (Ohrid trout), a fish found in Lake Ohrid that was sent to the Byzantine emperors every Friday for their supper meal.

During the 1990s bleak (Alburnus alburnus) and roach (Rutilus rutilus) from Lake Ohrid were introduced into Vlasina as food for the Ohrid trout.

The most (justly) famous of the plant and animal species which have survived since the lake first filled with water is the Ohrid trout, whose pink, delicate flesh surpasses the most sublime baby salmon.

You must walk along its shore at dawn to see pelicans skimming its surface, fishing in water that's perfectly clear to a depth of 70 feet, looking, one imagines, for the Ohrid trout, a prehistoric species that exists nowhere else.

Ohrid's best restaurant - an establishment that bills itself interchangeably as "Fish Restaurant" and "Ohridska Pastrmka" (Ohrid Trout) - is a kind of pilgrimage spot, and like food-pilgrims everywhere, the Yugoslavs approach their meal with solemn, unhurried reverence.

The Ohrid trout was the dominant species in the lake at the time, but then lost its position during the 1980s, because the breeding program was discontinued, and because of failure of natural spawning due to water level variations related to working schedules of the hydroelectric plant, Vrla.

Ohrid trout or the Lake Ohrid brown trout (Salmo letnica) is an endemic species of trout in Lake Ohrid and in its tributaries and outlet, the Black Drin river, in the Republic of Macedonia and Albania in the Balkans.