Look Out Below: An Usual Way of Transporting Fish to New Homes

Utah has an unusual and spectacular way of restocking it's more remote and difficult to access lakes: airdropping fish directly above the lakes. Although typically used to quickly insert military forces or supplies to recipients on the ground, fish are now finding themselves being dropped from airplanes. A video posted by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources shows how hundreds of fingerlings – a scientific term for baby fish – are being dumped into a lake by a low-flying aircraft. The…