7295

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7295
• Author: Tanner, V. M.
• Title: Study of the Fishes of Utah
• USFW Year: 1936
• USFW - Doc Type: Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters
• Copyright Material: YES

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A Study of the Fishes of Utah1

By VASCO M. TANNER

Contents

Introduction .........................,.,.................. 155
Classification of Utah Fishes............................... 156
Key to the Families.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . '. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Key to the Genera and Species of Native Fishes.. . . . . . . .. 158
Illustrations .......................................... 161, 178
Distributional List of Native Species of Utah Fishes.......... 161
List of Species that Have Been Introduced into Utah Streams.. 172

Summary .....................,.............,..........,. 173
Bibliography ............................................. 173

Introduction

It is the purpose of this paper to bring together, as far as possible, all
that is known about the native fish fauna of Utah. Since so many people are
becoming interested in fishing and the life of the out of doors, an attempt has
been made to provide information about all the native species of fishes and
make available as complete a bibliography on the subject as possible, It is
hoped that a more detailed study will be made of the cultural problems in our
state and that the investigations begun by the Federal Bureau of Fisheries and
our State Department of Fish and Game will be continued. It is important
that this be done since habitat and faunal changes have already brought about
many unfavorable conditions for the development of our fisheries. The bal-
ance of nature as it was seventy-five years ago has been greatly modified, and
will continue to be so in the future as man develops his irrigation projects,
changes the watersheds by grazing of live-stock, lumbering, a!1d with fires,
and by the development of new lakes and the draining of the old ones. It is
important that we have some of the facts, in this connection, !IoS to the past
and the present conditions in order that the problems of the future may be
more adequately dealt with. Many of the most desirable native species which
were so abundant when the Pioneers came are probably gone forever, like-
wise many of the streams and lakes have been completely changed in their
production of fish food. This means that we must continue to make a scien-
tific study of this entire situation.
A study of the bibliography in this paper shows that many students of
the fishes have made contributions to our knowledge of the Utah fauna. A
brief review of the early collectors and publications may be of interest as
well as of value.
Father Escalante (1776) and Captain Fremont (1844) were prohably the
first white men to fish in Utah waters and note their findings. The first
parties to collect fish for scientific purposes were those conducted by Lieut.
E. G. Beckwith and Lieut. J. W, Gunnison (1859) and Captain J. H. Simpson
(Gill 1876). These parties collected the fauna and the flora of this western

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