Why can't you use live minnows in UT?

[Fishrmn]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Utah DWR doesn't try to eradicate Utah chubs from their original habitats. They poison them, and try to eradicate them from waters into which they have been introduced. They weren't found in the Strawberry River drainage until somebody moved them there. They weren't in the Scofield watershed until somebody put them there. They weren't in the Beaver River drainage until someone put them there. They didn't evolve in the Panguitch drainage either. Somebody put them there.

Have they ever tried to eradicate chubs from any of the drainages of Utah Lake, Bear Lake,or the Provo River? Nope. Because they evolved there.


BTW, here's a link


http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/public_meet.../sept1.pdf
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