Record Details
page 653
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 653 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 653 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 653 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; salmo clarkieteuriticus clarki pleuritic pleuriticas pleuritical as cope colorado river cutthroat this subspecies is now scarce or absent in utah because of the deterioration of its habitat and of hybridization with the widely stocked rainbow trout and yellowstone cutthroat trout it was formerly abundant in cold tributaries uributaries tributa ries rles of the green river and the headwaters of fremont river in wayne county it may still be holding out in utah in western tribu baries taries of the green river the same subspecies also persists in a few remote creeks and lakes of the upper colorado river system in wyoming and colorado salmo clarki utah suckley utah cutthroat this subspecies described from utah lake originally occurred in the streams and lakes of the bonneville Eon bon neville basin in utah idaho and wyoming it is now believed to be extinct having been greatly depleted by overfishing over fishing by adverse changes in the lakes and streams and by contamination through hybridization with introduced rainbows and cutthroats cut throats A sample of the pure form may possibly still persist in snake valley nevada into which the utah cutthroat trout was introduced about 1880 1860 miller and alcorn 1946 the former abundance of this trout in utah lake is isnow now difficult to visualize in 1864 one haul of a comme eomme commercial rca rc4 lai lal net secured between 3500 and 3700 pounds by 1872 1572 a catch of 500 pounds was considered good and by 1889 a 100 pound haul was a good catch cope and yarrow 1875 jordan 1890 salmo clarki lewisi lekisi girard yellowstone cutthroat this trout has probably largely if not exclusively replaced native stocks of cutthroat trout in utah through hybridization following widespread and repeated stocking just when the first introduction was made is uncertain in 1899 11000 adults and yearlings yearnings year lings were sent to john H sharp fish and game warden salt lake city these trout came either from 1 7 leadville colorado or bozeman montana or possibly from both stations if so several subspecies including the yellowstone cutthroat may have been included ravenel 1900 P CX 1 I the yellowstone cutthroat occurs naturally in headwaters of the 1viissouri iissouri missouri river the upper columbia river drainage the upper fraser river system of british columbia and the upper south saskatchewan river system of alberta canada salmo gairdneri gaird neri richardson rainbow trout according to popov and 7 eow low dow ow 19531 1953 the he first introduction of this species into utah is believed to vohave 1ohave have taken place n 1883 when a shipment of eggs was received from mccloud river california the first specific stocking records are for 1896 when fry rry were planted in ogden river HE big cottonwood creek near salt lake city and in a pond near pleasant grove ut utah urah etah a in county by 1913 rainbow trout had been stocked in n almost all of the favorable waters of utah and the species is now widely established and re regularly ularly stocked by the utah state department of fish and game the kan Kam yan amloops kamloops K loops rainbow trout was first stocked in bear lake in 1959 959 from canada 653 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/5218 |
