A man caught a nearly 17-pound koi in a small Utah County pond, a type of carp that the Division of Wildlife Resources said should have never been there.
Courtesy of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources crews shot 24,000 fish out of a tube into the Rockport Reservoir last week, the second year of Kokanee Salmon stocking in the body of water.
Chris Penne, Northern Region aquatic manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources, said the fish has become popular with anglers.
“They’re a very fun one to catch,” he said. “They’re acrobatic, leap out of the water.”
He added that Kokanee are the landlocked cousins of the iconic Sockeye Salmon famous in the Pacific Northwest, and that they taste delicious.
Penne said a rule of thumb for fish this size is about a 10% survival rate, though that might be a conservative estimate.
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A new tool to kill the water killers
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Revolutionary new method joins the fight against invasive mussels.
For almost three decades now, conservationists in states with massive lake and river water resources have lost the battle against two invasive mussels the quagga and the zebra. Since spring arrived and recreational boaters and water users are putting their boats into the water, Utah is bringing an important new weapon to the fight May 1. The new system will lead the way in the massive fight against the water-killing mussels.
The zebra mussel first arrived in the Great Lakes in 1986, released in ocean-going ship ballast water. By 1990 the mussels invaded the Erie Canal and Lake Ontario, and have since spread to the entire Mississippi River basin. They continue to spread.
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