Record Details
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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 131 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 131 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 131 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; colorado cut cutthroat th mat w I trout L undetermined utah cutthroat trout undetermined june sucker undetermined sacramento perch undetermined humpback sucker rare bear lake whitef whitefish ish rare bonneville cisco rare bonneville whitefish rare least chub rare bear lake sculp sculpin in rare the colorado cutthroat june sucker and least chub are native to the area included in the bonneville unit however the consensus is that thecolorado the colorado cutthroat is threatened and utah cutthroat is extinct 68 8 the trout nearly already specimens of june sucker have recently been found in utah lake mona reservoir and the jordan river near the proposed site of lampton reservoir 66 the least chub is reported to still inhabitthe inhabit the jordan river 68 the utilization of waters by man pollution irrigation practices overgrazing cutting of forests and introduction of alien species have all contributed tri buted to the depletion and replacement of native stocks introduction of bait fishes as well as extensive intentional plantings of exotic game species primarily the rainbow trout and transbasin trans basin waterdiversions water diversions have resulted in mixing of once distinct populations such as those of the bonneville and colorado basins 68 significant amounts of water have been diverted from the colorado river basin to the bonneville basin since the early 1900s curre currently ntly antly there are 17 active inter basin bas has in diversion operations that transport about 100000 acce acre acte feet of water annually 76 70 there is also one diversion in which the flow of water is reversed the yellowstone cutthroat has probablyreplaced probably replaced native stocks of colorado river and utah cutthroat through hybridization following widespreadand widespread and repeated stocking the most economically valuable species are the game fishes which have nearly a1lbeen all ail been introduced some of the most popularsports popular sports fish are the yellowstone cutthroat rainbow brown andbrook sandbrook and brook trout the channelcatfish channel catfish the white bass and the largemouth bass the trouts are found in many of thelakes shelakes the lakes reservoirs and streams khin the limits of the bonneville unit unite the latter three species inhabit utah lake the mountain whitefish one of the few remaining native game fish is not very abundant in the unit area fishery management in utah as well as in the proposed bonneville unit area depends heavily upon artificial propagation with hatchery stocks the 39th biennial report of the utahmstate utah state division of fish and game67 game07 now the division of wildlife resources reports that about 32 million 131 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/5473 |
