Smallmouth in Utah

[Watershadow]

multiple waters in utah have mercury containing fish, including jordy and utah lake to name a few. Check the proclamation for all of the listed waters. You can eat them, but sparingly. Smaller fish, as someone else noted, generally have less mercury than larger ones.

Stunting is a fact, and even the casual angler with any time spent on the water year after year can see it; particularly, if a person has ever fished farm ponds with bluegill, high mountain lakes with brook trout, DC and Jordy for SMB, and blacksmith fork, huntington creek, and provo river for brown trout. Watching these fish become more and more plentiful every year and smaller and smaller is readily observable.

I've always thought it might be a good idea to get these numbers down in places like DC, Jordy, and the Provo River, is to open them up every 3 months or so to any type of rod fishing, any type of bait, and no license, with no limits. This might "thin the herd" a little, and might help with the fact that so many fishermen now dont catch and keep what they eat. Could be monitored by biologists, and modified as needed. That might do the trick
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