SALT LAKE CITY More than 8.2 million fish were stocked across various lakes, rivers, reservoirs, creeks and ponds in Utah during 2020, according to figures released by state wildlife officials Friday.
In all, they say nearly 1.2 million pounds of fish from 21 different species were stocked across 626 state waterbodies. Most of the fish were raised at state-owned fisheries, but fish were also imported from three other states according to the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Biologists have stocked fish in Utah since 1871, and the state opened its first fish hatchery in 1899; operations have grown dramatically since then. A little over 7 million, or about 85%, of the fish stocked in Utah came from 13 state-run hatcheries.
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