Letter: Ready for a "rod fee" to fish Utah's public waterways?
Apparently, it’s not enough for some folks to simply own a mile or two of riverfront along the Provo River in Provo Canyon when the public resource – the river and the fish – can be exploited for personal gain. And thanks to the Utah Legislature giving away the rights of the public to “freely” fish the privately-owned beds of the Provo River through the perversely named “Public Waters Access Act” of 2010 — there’s now gold (in the form of brown trout) and silver (in the form of rainbow trout and whitefish) that can be mined in them-thar waters by those who own the beds over w...
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