In the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex fishermen can catch their fill of rainbow trout during the relative cool of the winter months in several stocked dams and at least one stream. Rainbow trout can also be pursued in South Africa and even Malawi, countries where they have been featured on postage stamps. They are found on every continent except Antarctica. That makes this spotted trout, with its emblematic red horizontal stripe, as successful a colonizer as cattle and corn and its ubiquity derives from the same source: humanity’s love affair with it.

Stoddard, E. (2010, April 23-24). Author details how rainbow trout conquered the world. BusinessWorld, p. S3/8.