Whirling disease found at Springville fish hatchery
That was found one or two years ago…
That really stinks. Hopefully they can get it back up and operational before long. It will put quite a bit of strain on the other hatcheries to keep up with demand.
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Trout? No big loss for me… I can live without any stinky ole trout! Now if only they would procreate wipers, walleyes, and bass!![angelic]
[reply]Trout? No big loss for me… I can live without any stinky ole trout! Now if only they would procreate wipers, walleyes, and bass!![angelic][/reply]Um, I believe they do raise walleye, bass and wipers in hatcheries, And I would like a couple of those walleye too. One to $H#@ on and another one to cover it up with!
“The fish in the stream go round and round”
Thanks Mike. Please do us a favor and never return to UT.
So can the infected “morts” spread the disease or should the hatchery have called up the guy in ID that I pay $2.25 for 6 morts to, have been called to at least get a few thousand for the little trout. 4-6" is perfect Sturgeon size for bait.
The only real solution is to close the hatchery and fill the raceways with clorox for a year. That is kno0wn to kill the cysts.
Helluva job Mikey! I just refer to it as the Leavitt strain of Whirling Disease to credit the family that purposely introduced it to the state.
I thought the Springville Hatchery has been shut down for AWHILE.
Has it really been operating, and is this really a new story?
Nate
Long time no hear, nice to know your still kicking (fishing) I mean…
Your probably thinking of the Midway fish hatchery.
I know that part of the Springville hatchery has been shut down for a year or two, they said that they was going to tear out the race ways or something like that…
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Trout? No big loss for me… I can live without any stinky ole trout! Now if only they would procreate wipers, walleyes, and bass!![angelic] [/reply]
Um, I believe they do raise walleye, bass and wipers in hatcheries, And I would like a couple of those walleye too. (Edited for content) This is news to me because Utah generally does not raise walleyes, bass, and wipers in their hatcheries. Guys please correct me if I am wrong, and let me know if Utah has changed the fish menu in their hatcheries.
Wipers are produced down by Lake Powell, but there are no other “warm water” hatcheries in Utah.
Walleye are not planted or maintained as a fishery anywhere. Once they are in a water they are on their own, and usually manage to take care of themselves…at the expense of the other species in the water.
Same with bass. No hatcheries and little or no planting. Whenever DWR needs bass for community fisheries or the kids’ pond at the state fair, they get them from Mantua.
As the article briefly noted, whirling disease was discovered at the Springville hatchery in 2005 and it was taken out of production and only recently reopened. So they will not reopen it again until they have a new water source.
It does make one wonder why they don’t convert some of the hatcheries to fish that are not suceptible to the disease.
Water and water quality is always the big issue when choosing a site for a hatchery and determining the species to be raised. The water at Springville is probably too cold for any species other than trout. And, while cutts and other trout species are less susceptible to whirling disease than rainbows, they are not completely immune.
DWR has been aggressively looking for suitable sites for warm water hatcheries for quite a while. Again, the problem is water quaility. Whenever they find a water source that is warm enough, there is almost always the presence of an aquatic parasite that would impact the fish…and it is something that cannot be eradicated.
As bad as things are, at least we do not have the VHS problem that is just about wiping out some fisheries in the midwest. That is where we were getting our tiger muskie fry and when VHS starting running rampant, we shut off importing anything from potentially infected areas. Viral Hemorrh****agic Septicemia (?) affects just about all species and is almost always fatal.
No matter what, Utah is, has been and always will be heavily committed to their trout program. Don’t look for them to convert time and dollars to any kind of substitute program any time soon.
I think besides the chubs and suckers the only other warm water fish DWR plants are catfish.
Yes, they plant a lot of catfish for the community fisheries program. But, they buy them from out of state hatcheries. If they are ever able to get a warm water hatchery program going that would probably save the state a ton of money in catfish alone.