Over 11.6 million fish were stocked in Utah's waterbodies by the DWR in 2025 to maintain fishing opportunities.

SALT LAKE CITY — Despite the state's extreme drought conditions in 2021, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources (DWR) stocked a whopping 9,616,203 fish in 615 water bodies to ensure that native fish ...

Megan McNeil coaxed the final rainbow trout out of a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stocking truck, using the broken handle of a net to prod the holdout to escape the metal tank. Slipping through ...

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — More than 12.8 million fish were stocked in Utah’s waterbodies in 2024, the highest figure in the past five years. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources released ...

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SALT LAKE CITY — Making a splash to enhance fishing experiences and bolster native fish populations, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources went all-in by releasing an impressive 10,634,431 fish ...

A spring wave of fish stockings has Utah County’s bodies of water full of fish as the calendar officially turns to summer Friday. Lakes, rivers and ponds statewide are stocked with fish throughout the ...

How does Utah keep fish in its reservoirs and other bodies of water? The state grows them, millions at a time. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stocked more than 8.2 million fish into bodies of ...

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As Utah’s reservoirs and rivers continue to shrink in extreme drought conditions, state wildlife managers have adjusted by changing where they stock fish across the state. Experts say anglers should ...

In a video that recently went viral, thousands and thousands of fish go flying out of a plane, over a lake: WHEN FISH FLY. No, it's not hyperbole. It's the time of year when we stock high-elevation ...