Summary
The cutthroat trout has some very close ties with such odd characters as the mottled sculpin, speckled dace, woundfin and desert sucker.
It is not nearly as close as people might think to popular fish like rainbow, largemouth bass, yellow perch, walleye or kokanee salmon. That's because the cutthroat is a Utah native, as is the sculpin, dace, woundfin and sucker. They've been neighbors for centuries, even millenniums.See the full content of this document
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Utah's Native Fish
Fish like rainbow, bass, perch and salmon are transplants, non- native species brought into Utah for either food or sport.
Utah does, in fact, have a fairly respectable list of native fish but not nearly as long as those of the Eastern states, where there are more lakes and longer, rainier seasons.Of the 30 fish on Utah's list, only three -- all cutth...See the full content of this document
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