Flying fish: video shows Utah wildlife agency restocking lake by plane

The Utah division of wildlife resources has released video footage showing planes dropping small fish from the air into the lakes below. The fish - which are usually between 1 and 3 inches (2.5cm-7.5cm) long and include rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, brook trout, tiger trout, splake and Arctic grayling - are specifically raised for fishing. They are dropped into fishless lakes that do not have any natural reproduction, and they are often sterile.
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Utah’s DWR says this allows the state to control their numbers and does not affect any native fish populations. This method of stocking, in which the small fish can survive the high fall because of their size, has been used since the 1950s. According to the UDWR, aerial restocking is quicker and less stressful for the fish than the earlier method of bringing the fish to the high locations in milk cans on horses.
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[@dotta4763]

No one would survive a jump into the water from that heigh Fishes: hold my beer…

[@Kyle_Lurz]

This is actually pretty cool

[@malcontent4356]

Several of the Utah lakes are stocked a couple times a year by airplanes. Especially the many pristine lakes found in the High Uinta's that are so remote their only access is to hike or horseback to those lakes...MIGHTY FINE PINE!

[@stevedewey4059]

It's all overgrown neglected and forgotten about. But in the early 1900s Oregon used to transport fish and mail on trains. If you know where to look. You can still find some of the old fish tunnels made out of cedar. Everyone acts like conservation is something new

[@purellligma3815]

Any areas to look?

[@BACMemesandRoblox]

What is this, Fish-nite? Where we swimming bois😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MarieKyriney]

best comment here 😂😂

[@alexrobertson4528]

its in reverse

[@darkblack7111]

Is the fish okay?

[@toyotaprius79]

What's the mortality rate?

[@dustyboi8975]

Low. This is actually how you do this. They aren’t just winging it to get home early.

[@stephens1393]

@@dustyboi8975 It's 95-99% survival rate. There's been quite a bit of work figuring out the best drop conditions (90mph, 150-250ft, depending on conditions, etc.).

[@kristopherhasenbuhler5393]

Thats a pretty far DROP😮 BUT SOMEHOW THEY MAKE IT!😊

[@Starship737]

The fish had a nice ride

[@sweetsexypickles]

I just watched a video with goldfish growing to 9lbs from being put in lakes & ponds 😱

[@imranzazai7404]

Amazing.

[@shadeofshattered3]

This is actually amusing to watch

[@superdougie4637]

I know most fish are kind of designed for diving like that.....but at hundreds of mph?

[@steakovercake3986]

Doubt they would do it if the fish would just die or get injured ..

[@tams805]

That plane is not flying at hundreds of miles per hour (there's no way they'd be on target) and they aren't going to do it if they just die.

[@jackb3985]

The plane is not going hundreds of miles an hour

[@stephens1393]

They planes are ideally going around 90mph, at a height of 150-250ft off the surface. The fish are just fingerlings-- a few inches long. If you throw leaves out of a car window driving down the freeway at 65mph (of course don't do this), they don't hit the ground very hard. The fish are similar-- low terminal velocity, and they tend to orient themselves better than you might think.

[@lethalantdog4901]

Do it hurt the fish

[@Bryce-biker]

Eh maybe there like a baby learning to walk it might hurt when they trip but they will forget about falls in the past

[@lethalantdog4901]

@@Bryce-biker I was joking man

[@handsomepackage7004]

This has been going on up here in our California Sierra Nevada lakes since the 1940’s.

[@djinghiskhan9199]

Is a plane drop really necessary?

[@joshuareyes2449]

Yes, when that body of water is 50 miles from the nearest civilization

[@djinghiskhan9199]

@@joshuareyes2449 If its 50 miles from "civilisation" why do they need to restock fish?

[@joshuareyes2449]

@@djinghiskhan9199 just cause it’s that far from civilization doesn’t mean it’s inaccessible for humans to fish I’m sure this being done by a wildlife agency i would assume these lakes are part of the park. Cmon lets use ours brains

[@djinghiskhan9199]

@@joshuareyes2449 "50 miles from the nearest civilization" You can literally see a jetty at 8 seconds. You are full of it. Ahahahahahahahahah

[@joshuareyes2449]

@@djinghiskhan9199whether it’s 50 or 5 miles look at that terrain and tell me you’re gonna get a big tanker full of fish to that site. I’m full of what….🤣 ethical and efficient thinking??

[@justbe1451]

Please, someone write a short blub from the fish's perspective of the experience!!! Please, anyone??

[@pumaperfectgaming9654]

It's been a rough few weeks. I was born in the tanks, they feed us and raise us strong. But today we go out to what we were born to so. To fly. To swim. I am one of many, my brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles,.everyone I've ever known are loaded in this tank. Darker than the one we were raised in. It's rough. There's chatter by everyone. Where are we heading? Whatis going to happen? It opens. We see the light. It rushes out, we swim, we are free. Soldiers sent to repopulate the waters so strange to us. It is what we were born to do. Sorry it's so late buddy, but your fish pov story

[@kleinerflitza6509]

Crazy

[@N_I_T_Y_A]

Crazy...wasn't there any other way to do that fish relocation🐟

[@zakattack8624]

The Aquatic Parachute Corps

[@Justwrestle129]

Hitting the water like bricks? Okay 👍🏻

[@stephens1393]

They planes are ideally going around 90mph, at a height of 150-250ft off the surface. The fish are just fingerlings-- a few inches long. If you throw leaves out of a car window driving down the freeway at 65mph (of course don't do this), they don't hit the ground very hard. The fish are similar-- low terminal velocity, and they tend to orient themselves better than you might think.

[@Lucas_652-p9m]

Really just ejecting the fish out of the plane is crazy

[@letsdebate839]

Surly that has to hurt

[@pen12345]

Fish don't feel pain

[@letsdebate839]

@@pen12345 if you say so

[@stephens1393]

The fish are only about 3 inches long and have a very low terminal velocity. They don't hit the water very hard, and they even orient themselves a bit for a better landing.

[@SKRATCH587]

Plane behaving like a bird😎

[@maxasaurus3008]

Traumatized Trout: a deranged cousin of the more flamboyant Rainbow Trout, the Traumatized Trout inhabits freshwater lakes usually unreachable by fish. They tend to swim with a limp and tell far out tales of derring-do acomfished by their distant relations. 🎣

[@Che-rry373]

I got a taste for seafood now.

[@ArtyomLensky]

the lesser known "Whitby Bomber"

[@sumerbc7409]

This is fish Abuse !

[@ipilip2686]

Awesome 🤩

[@brandonslusher9247]

“Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice IM willing to make”

[@futurefossil2208]

The smell

[@CP-xt5ux]

Genetically modified fish... yummy 😋

[@__WJK__]

ikr ... smh ... what a world, what a world.

[@jemaripelt2585]

Weeeeeeeeee

[@juansalord4905]

Lo

[@War_Thunder_Napkin]

Fortnite

[@public.public]

Nice if you can afford it.

[@siamwse]

fish battle royale

[@AbdulRahman-om2kf]

I want money to rain

[@fish-4092]

fishstrike

[@josephunderwearssmith6960]

Utah = corona fish

[@monkeybusinessasusuall5467]

Fish fortnight

[@Dat1goober]

Pulling up to flooded towers

[@Aespha]

fortnite

[@Geno2733]

Fishbomber

[@dirkvenezuela7387]

Can you imagine!? You're just a peaceful dyyyuuuudebrooo out on the laaaaake with your girlfriend in a caneeeeyyyuuoooe (

[@nicolek4076]

No-one here asks the question not answered in the film. Why do these lakes need restocking? Why are they sterile? Perhaps they are naturally so. Perhaps it's climate change or pollution. The question hangs large in the air.

[@malcontent4356]

They are not sterile lakes. Thousands of people hike to these lakes to fish. If you were to visit a few of the thousands of lakes found within the beautiful Uintah National Forest, you would understand. I am retired now but I have been fishing these lakes since childhood when my father took me fishing there most every year.

[@gorgeousgeorge2697]

Samuel L Jackson has signed up to the sequel, Eels on a Plane.

[@mrmustangman]

title should read - "Utah wildlife agency restocking lake by plane with DEAD fish"

[@TheDavidMetcalfe]

Title should read "This video's comments will be filled with ignorant people that don't understand science." The fish fall more slowly and therefore safely because of their small size. 95% survival rate is common with this technique.

[@stephens1393]

@@TheDavidMetcalfe You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him understand terminal velocity of small fish falling into that water in front of him 😄

[@jonathanavice8052]

Waste of money captive fish just die and don't bring genetic diversity

[@h.xtred_]

Warzone