-To measure the changes in substrate composition produced by spawning brook trout Salvefinus fontinalis, we collected 187 freeze-core samples, both before and after spawning, from egg pockets, inside redds but excluding egg pockets, and outside redds. In the upper strata of reddassociated samples, we found that the proportions of particles 0.85-1.70,0.425-0.85,0.2 12-0.425, and less than 0.212 ...