Did you know that we stock fish in Utah by AIRPLANE?! 🛩 This week we stocked around 200 high-elevation lakes across the state. These lakes are not accessible by vehicle and other means of stocking. The fish are between 1-3 inches long, so they flutter down slowly to the water. Aerial fish stocking in Utah is an effective method of stocking and has been since the mid 1950s. Post-stocking netting surveys show that survival of aerial-stocked fish is incredibly high. The airplane holds hundreds of

Fish stocking by airplane.🐟 Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stocks high elevation lakes aerially each summer. According to the division, the aerial method is used to reach lakes that cannot be accessed by land vehicles or other more traditional methods. Agencies in New York, Colorado, and Wyoming are also using the same method to stock fish | GIGadgets