Pollution and decreased water quality can affect fishes by impacting habitat, food sources, and dissolved oxygen levels, which in turn impact their growth potential and reproductive abilities. Cutler Reservoir, a warm-water fishery located in northern Utah, was listed as water quality impaired under the Clean Water Act in 2010 due to excess phosphorus and periods of low dissolved oxygen levels. Despite this listing, surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006 revealed 14 species of fish residing in the reservoir. This community is comprised of game and non-game fish species, including trophy-sized walleye. With this research I aimed to determine why there is such a wide diversity of fish species thriving in the reservoir, when the reservoir itself is listed as water quality impaired.
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Pollution and decreased water quality can affect fishes by impacting habitat, food sources, and dissolved oxygen levels, which in turn impact their growth potential and reproductive abilities. Cutler Reservoir, a warm-water fishery located in northern Utah, was listed as water quality impaired under the Clean Water Act in 2010 due to excess phosphorus and periods of low dissolved oxygen levels. Despite this listing, surveys conducted in 2005 and 2006 revealed 14 species of fish residing in the reservoir. This community is comprised of game and non-game fish species, including trophy-sized walleye. With this research I aimed to determine why there is such a wide diversity of fish species thriving in the reservoir, when the reservoir itself is listed as water quality impaired.
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