What is the purpose of Fish Stocking @ Utah?
Fish Stocking activities occur every year in Utah to fill empty ponds with new fingerling fish. Fish stocking is an important fishery management tool used by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, which brings additional juvenile fish into stocked waters to help sustain fisheries. This term also refers to introducing additional fingerlings of a certain species into a pond or river, which are then grown and harvested for food or sportfish. Fish stocking is done in early spring and late fall by the Division of Wildlife Resources' Fish Management Program staff. The program stocks and monitors more than 200,000 acres of wetlands throughout the state each year through this process. The Cover River Ranch offers fish stocking information in the salt marshes of the Cover River and Lake Bonneville. More than 3,000 of the newly stocked fish, called fingerlings, have been stocked into the Cover River at The Cover River Ranch, and it's expected that more than 2,500 Morone Fork white