The Black Sea salmon (''Salmo labrax'') is a fairly small species of

salmo ''Salmo'' is a genus of ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae. The single ''Salmo'' species naturally found in the Atlantic North America is the Atlantic salmon, whereas the salmon and trout of the Pacific basin belong to another genus, '' ...

n, at about long on average and rarely reaching over . It inhabits the northern

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...

coasts and inflowing rivers. There are anadromous,

lacustrine A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...

and resident river populations. This fish is a close relative of the brown trout. While it is the only native species of ''Salmo'' present in the northern Black Sea basin, it may hybridize with (introduced) brown trout in the major rivers.Freyhof, J. (2013
''Salmo labrax''
The

IUCN Red List The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ...

of Threatened Species v. 2014.3 (March 2015). Sea-run populations are currently at low numbers, but the resident river stocks are doing well.

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