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Feds Back Removal of 5M Pounds of Utah Lake Carp
November 20, 2009 -- A plan to pull 5 million pounds of unwanted carp from a Utah lake each year — one of the largest such attempts in the country — got initial backing Thursday from a federal wildlife agency.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said the program that began as a small-scale, state-funded experiment last year should be expanded in the coming years in the hopes of saving an endangered fish called the June sucker.
The June sucker is only found in the 151-square-mile Utah Lake west of Provo and its tributaries. They once numbered in the millions but dwindled to just a few thousand before being placed on the endangered species list in 1986. Read the full story to get the details.
"The recovery of the June sucker couldn’t happen without this project."
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