This is part of a pilot project to help remove more carp from Utah Lake and restore the June sucker and its habitat.

The June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program has gone to great lengths to reduce the population of invasive carp in Utah ...

Blacksmith Fork River in Cache County on Aug. 7, 2019. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officials are calling on anglers to target specific fish species in four bodies of water across northeast ...

At Utah Lake, the carp took over, out-competing native species. They were so numerous they at one point accounted for more than 90% of the lake’s biomass , or the weight of all its living things.

Utah Lake looking west from Saratoga Springs is shown in June 2024. The ULA is including the public in its ongoing battle against the nonnative fish species by hosting a year-long competition in 2025.

Enough is enough when it comes to a certain fish that is aggressively destroying Utah Lake, and now state officials are channeling their inner-Bob Barkers to get help in removing them.