It's raining fish in Utah.
17On purpose, even.
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/18/airdropping-live-fish-is-a-thing-and-it-looks-magnificent/
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On purpose, even.
https://hackaday.com/2021/08/18/airdropping-live-fish-is-a-thing-and-it-looks-magnificent/
I had to star this topic even before I opened it to read. : )
/giphy star star
That’s funny I read that same article somewhere else.
I saw them doing this once, back in the '70s. Some of those smaller lakes are impossible to reach with a truck, and some of their pilots are effing insanely good at precision aerobatic waterbombing.
@werehatrack Utah has been using fish bombing since the 1950’s for remote high mountain lakes & ponds. They used to use mules or horses & milk cans.
They use trucks, foot, and even dirt bikes, depending on the area.
https://wildlife.utah.gov/news/wildlife-blog/188-extreme-fish-stocking.html
Years ago I worked one summer at a fish farm raising fish until they were big enough to be trucked to ponds and lakes around the midwest. It was exceptionally boring.
@fibrs86 even more so for the fish…
@fibrs86 Utah DWR has about 15 hatcheries around the state. I took of tour of one of them when I was a kid.
Depending on what they were trying to do, and where, they’d raise them to various sizes before stocking.
Oddly, (I guess it’s the season for that), the Oregon Department of Wildlife also released video of them doing it across mountain lakes in Oregon.
A special device was created by local engineers in 1997 that they still use. It has about 20 small tanks and each holds about 300 small trout. They can fly over several lakes in one run, and drop one or several tanks into the lake. And they might do up to 4 runs a day. Apparently they’ve tested this for years and they say the fish don’t mind, even though I think the fish might have a story to tell if you could ever interview the fish…
It was on local TV channel KGW 8 but I didn’t find online link to video yet. But yeah it’s definitely a real thing.
Yes, done in Colorado too: