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Credits

The fish species characteristics presented in the Utah Native Fishes Viewer were taken from the following reference:

William F. Sigler and John W. Sigler. Fishes of Utah: A Natural History. Illustrations by Joseph R. Tomelleri. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 1996. Permission to reproduce courtesy the University of Utah Press.

The authors of this software thank the authors of this book and the University of Utah press for allowing them to reproduce materials from the text. The authors also thank Joseph R. Tomelleri for granting permission for use of the color plates used in the software.

Major funding for this software was provided by the Institute for Natural Systems Engineering at the Utah Water Research Laboratory in collaboration with the Environmental Management Research Group and the Utah Museum of Natural History.

Mountain Whitefish
© Joseph R. Tomelleri

Mountain Whitefish.  Sportfishermen regard the mountain whitefish with mixed emotions. One school of thought holds that they are a good food and sport fish, another feels they are a negative and detractive factor.