SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is reminding the public that it is both illegal and harmful to introduce new fish species into a waterbody in response to an illegally released walleye recently caught at Strawberry Reservoir. The DWR was contacted on Dec. 21, 2023 by […]
My grandfather, a man who I’m relatively confident has never had a drop of alcohol in his life, always said that if you’re going to go ice fishing, you need to bring beer. It’s his belief that you either have to be drunk or crazy to go sit out in […]
SALT LAKE CITY — Anyone who goes fishing knows how thrilling it is to catch a fish, especially if it is a large, potentially record-breaking one. And in 2023, anglers set a few new fishing records in Utah. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources began tracking records for harvested fish […]
(Cedar City, UT) — Illegal fish species have turned up in four Utah reservoirs, including two in Iron County. State wildlife officials say the presence of the fish is evidence of illegal dumping. Wildlife biologists have found non-native fish in Newcastle and Paragonah reservoirs in Iron County and in Yearns […]
ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — A state agency is preparing to put poison in in Washington County reservoir in southwestern Utah to kill off unwanted fish that were dumped illegally. The Spectrum reports that state Division of Wildlife Resources biologists over the summer found yellow perch, bluegill sunfish and green sunfish in […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah state wildlife officials are studying the brown trout population in the American Fork River to assess how the fish are recovering following a large sediment release from a nearby dam that nearly wiped out the fish population. The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources spent some […]
