Submitted by wvangler on Tue, 2014-04-15 08:42 Groups audience West Virginia - 9WV Native Species Sal Font -191 Vote Up Down +7 + SFTUSTATEFISHBW.png SFTU - Honoring Our State Fish Back to Gallery While the brook trout was designated as the WV state fish in 1973, we think it was our "state fish" long before then. Let's round off to a nice number like 10,000 BC even though glacial presence had pushed brook trout into the south long before then. The Sal font Chapter, newly created in 2014, was created to honor, conserve, reconnect, restore, and protect this marvel of a fish.