In recent years, extensive fishing has driven the Ohrid trout to the verge of extinction,[5] though several conservation activities are going on.

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

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.

The eggs from Yugoslavia were hatched in the United States; young fish were released into several small lakes in northern Minnesota in 1968 and 1969.

[12] This article incorporates public domain material from Nonindigenous Aquatic Species - Salmo letnica (Ohrid trout).