How a once-endangered fish is bouncing back and why it’s good news for Utah Lake

Twenty years ago, June suckers were well on their way to oblivion due to Utahns’ use of Utah Lake as a place to dump pollution and stock with sport fish and other nonnatives.Few noticed the disappearance of the June sucker, regarded as a trash fish, until it was almost too late.A large-bodied, long-lived fish that serves as an indicator of overall ecological health, June suckers naturally occur only in Utah’s namesake lake and its tributaries where they had been unable to successfull