02-21-2015, 11:53 PM
[#0000FF]Yes. There have been several other lakes that have received trial plantings of June suckers. As far as I know, there has been no spawning success although the adults can continue to live in these places for some time before expiring of old age.
These fish once filled the Provo River on their annual spawning runs upstream. But they were heavily harvested for food by the early pioneers and tons of them were killed when they were sucked out of the river by diversion dams into farmers' fields. Ditto for the formerly abundant cutthroats. The last cutthroat was seen in the 1930s...about the time a big drought left the lake an average of 1' deep...okay for the exploding carp population but not the cutts.
The June suckers seem totally patterned on the Provo River and Utah Lake. But with all of the growth and development around the lake...and the massive increase in both carp and predators in the lake...the surviving Junies are already bucking the odds. It is amazing that any have survived at all.
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These fish once filled the Provo River on their annual spawning runs upstream. But they were heavily harvested for food by the early pioneers and tons of them were killed when they were sucked out of the river by diversion dams into farmers' fields. Ditto for the formerly abundant cutthroats. The last cutthroat was seen in the 1930s...about the time a big drought left the lake an average of 1' deep...okay for the exploding carp population but not the cutts.
The June suckers seem totally patterned on the Provo River and Utah Lake. But with all of the growth and development around the lake...and the massive increase in both carp and predators in the lake...the surviving Junies are already bucking the odds. It is amazing that any have survived at all.
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