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<br />Utah Academy of Scicnces, A,.ts and L('ltt'l"s
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<br />rVol. XII
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<br />Type Locality: Utah Lake.
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<br />Salmo mykiss virginalis (Girard) Jordan and E,'ermanll. Fishe
<br />of North and Middle America, lIb6, 495. Utah Lake.
<br />
<br />~almo rnykiss virginalis (Girard), Jordan. Report of EX:Ploration~
<br />In Color~do alld Utal~ during the summer of 1889, with an aeeOUn .
<br />of the. fIshes found 111 each of the river basins examineu. 1891
<br />BulletIn, U. S. Fish Commission, Vol. IX, pp. 14-15.
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<br />Salmo purpuratus pallas Jordan and Gilbert. Notes on a Collec
<br />tion of Fishes from Utah Lake; Proc. U. S. National Museum.
<br />p. 460, 1881.
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<br />Salmo .virginalis (Girard), Cope and Yarrow. Report Upon th
<br />CollectIon of Fishes .Made in P<?rtions of Nevada, Utah, Californi
<br />Colorado, New MexIco, and Artzona during the years 1871-2-3 an
<br />4. Report Geography and Geology-Explorations and Survey
<br />West of the One Hundredth Meridian Vol. V.-Zoology pp 687
<br />693. 1875, '. .
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<br />Salmo clarki Richardson. Goode. The Salmon Tribe. U. S,
<br />Fishery Industries. Sec. I, p. 468. 1884.
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<br />Salmo c.larki utah Suckley. Jordan, the Distribution of Fresh
<br />'37~~er FIshes. Annual Report Smithsonian Institution. 1927. p
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<br />Salmo utah Suckley. Jordan, Evermann and Clark
<br />the Fishes etc. Rept. Commissioner of Fishes, 1928,
<br />1930.
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<br />Distribution: Utah Lak~, Jan. Apr. Oct. 1927 and 1929.-Tanner. Head
<br />waters of Provo RIver (Tryol Lake), Utah, July, 1920.-Tanner an
<br />Hansey.y Bear Lake, Sept. 4, 1930.- Tanner and Fechser. Panguitc
<br />Lake. uly, 1922.-Tanner.
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<br />Remarks: In 19332 Mr., Sheldo~ p, Hayes. and the writer reported t
<br />,progress of a s.tudy ot ~he natlve trout of Utah. In this report we pointe
<br />~t that ihe.re IS very httle reason for separating S. faah from S. Pleuri
<br />tICUS; ~n.ttl a ~ore d~tailed. study of ~ larger number - of specimen
<br />(whlc~ 1t 1S practJCflIly Impo~slble to obtam now) of native trout can
<br />made 1t may be adVisable to lIst the trout from the Great Salt Lake Basi
<br />and Colorado Plateaus under the species of rl'lf, paper. There is n
<br />~oubt but that there has been some color changes at least. which have bee
<br />lIlduced by the geographical isolation of the Salt Lake Basin.
<br />Father Esc.ala~te (1776) and Captain Fremont (844) found the Fta
<br />trout abundant m ~tah Lake. The Indians were fond of the trout as wel
<br />a~ the suckers,. usmg them fresh and dried. In Escalante.'s Journal we
<br />fmd t~e foll?wmg: "The lake of the Timpanogotizis has great quantities
<br />of :vanous kmds of food fi.sh, geese, beaver, and other amphibious animals
<br />whIch we h~d no opp~rtllmty to see. Round about it are a gre.c1.t number
<br />of. these IndIans who hve on the abundant supply of fish in the Lake. For
<br />thiS reason the Yutas Sabnaganas call them "Fish eaters." Besides the
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<br />2 ]933. The Genus Salmo in Utah. Proc. Ut. Acad. Sci.. Arts and Letters. VoL 10,
<br />pp. 163,64.
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<br />f ish. they gather grass sl':ds on the plain and make atols. Thcy also hlln,~
<br />hare:;. rahllib. and wild fowl of whIch there IS a great abumbnce here.
<br />Captain r-rclllont (HHS) has the foll')wing to .say of the Ctah Lake
<br />t rOllt. p:tge 273: u\ iew miles. below us ':'<1S anotaer Village of IndIa!,s,
<br />{rc'!l1 which '.'.e obtained some fIsh, among tlJeIlJ a few salmon trout, whIch
<br />,\cre ycry much inferior in size to those alO1~g the California mountains.
<br />\lay 1&+4:'
<br />'The ~r ornwn Dioneer;; iound the lake teeming with trout. In Decem-
<br />her. 1~-l7, a SUl'\"e': of the north end of the lake was made by Parley P.
<br />Pratt and :.,-,<oci"t'e5 who reported the presence of good food fish. From
<br />that ,'ear ; ;nil a')out 1080 tons of trout were seined and sold to the people
<br />i run~' Salt Lake City on the north to settlements in Sanpete County on the
<br />south. and to lnallyWof the mining caInps.
<br />In July, 1872,- when Dr. C. H. Yarrow and 1~r. H. W. Henshaw
<br />vi,ited l'tah Lake rhev made the following observatlOns:
<br />" In comparison ",.ith the other fishes of Utah, the Lake Trout is un-
<br />dOl1blt'dh the rw" t nU<11Cr0l1S and the most easily captured; how long, how-
<br />ever. this cU:lditiGn of affairs will h{st it is impossible to say, the supply
<br />having greatly diminished during the past few years, owing to the reckless
<br />method, of fj,hing and increase in the number of fishermen; moreover, a
<br />larger demand is now made for this fish, owing to increase in the number
<br />of sdtlers. The decrease in the yield may be roughly estimated at about
<br />I>!ltc-third. hut tljis percentage is slowly but surely increasing. The great-
<br />est ,j;e thi, ii,h attains, as far as could be learned on inquiry and from
<br />:>{:rsona! ohservation. is three feet; weight about fifteen and a half pounds.
<br />The anrage length, however, is about fourteen inches, and average weight
<br />I,ne ,md a half pounds.
<br />" Xo steps have as yet been taken to increase the supply of this valu-
<br />ahle fish by artificial means, the yield stilJ being large enough to meet the
<br />wants of the settlers and miners; but, in the course of a few years, arti-
<br />i ieial propagation must be resorted to, for although certain laws have been
<br />pa~sed regulating the size of the meshes of nets, no attention is paid to
<br />them by some greedy individuals, who think only of filling their own
<br />pockets at the expense of future generations,
<br />.. The trout of C tah Lake may be taken at nearly all seasons by both
<br />hook and net at all times, but in Panguitch Lake by hook only, since fish-
<br />ing- in any other way is prohibited by common consent.
<br />" .\f r. :\fadsen, who lives on the lake, mentions that, in 1864, such
<br />was the abundance of this fish, that in one haul of the seine, discarding all
<br />other kinds, he secured between thirty-five and thirty-seven hundred weight
<br />of trout. while at the present time five hundred pounds is considered an
<br />('normous haul."
<br />:\ t the present time the l:tah Trout is rarely taken in any of the above
<br />mcllt;olJ('d bodies of water. Many. things have militated against its con-
<br />tinuance 10 thl'i regIOn. some of which are upset in spawning, introduction
<br />~,f other ~p('cje5 of fi"h which have changed the food condtions, and fish-
<br />mil' methuds.
<br />In. Bear Lake where this species is at present most abundant its in-
<br />crC<lse is being intericred with by diverting of the streams that se;ved for
<br />spawning and by improper fishing of the streams at spawning season.
<br />. Se,'eral ~ocal names have been applied to this native tro~t. The early
<br />.~ t;l.h La,ke II~l.1Crmen ca!le~ it t.he "Lake Trout," "spotted trout," and
<br />l'uver I rout. .\t PangUltch It was known as the "Speckled trout,"
<br />and at Bear Lake as the" Blue Nose." This probably because of the
<br />blue DO&e lOUr rounded by the greenish color of the head,
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