Articles

Whirling disease spreading
Deseret News February 2, 2001.  Fish disease is found in private ponds in Kaysville, Bicknell

Leavitt family caught up in spread of deadly fish parasite
The Salt Lake Tribune July 30, 2000.  Trout fishing in Utah isn't what it used to be -- before the advent of whirling disease.

Cooperation = improved streams + healthy fish
Deseret News June 27, 2000.  Spanish Fork River watershed is taking a turn for the better

Trout transplanted in Parleys Creek
Deseret News April 21, 2000.  Cutthroat trout are being transplanted to a section of Parleys Creek where 185 fish were killed in January by an accidental release of chlorinated water from a city reservoir

Stream Alive Again With Fish: Transplant returns sensitive cutthroat trout to Parleys Creek
The Salt Lake Tribune April 21, 2000.  Veteran Utah author Hartt Wixom thought the little creek where he learned to fish had been covered and diverted to the point that trout could not possibly live there.

Utah to kill a million trout
Deseret News April 19, 2000.  Midway hatchery found to harbor whirling disease

Illness StrikesRainbow Trout
The Salt Lake Tribune April 19, 2000.  Utah wildlife experts have discovered signs of whirling disease at the Midway fish hatchery, marking the first time the disfiguring ailment has been found in a state-operated fish farm.

Whirling Disease Hits 2 Reservoirs, River
The Salt Lake Tribune March 4, 2000.  The parasite that causes whirling disease has spread to Jordanelle and Deer Creek reservoirs and the middle fork of the Provo River.

Provo River infected with whirling disease
Deseret News March 3, 2000.  Biologists weren't expecting sickness to spread so quickly

Whirling disease in the Logan
Deseret News November 25, 1999.  Infection that has spread from elsewhere could ravage fishery

Whirling Disease Hits Logan River
The Salt Lake Tribune November 25, 1999.  Utah Division of Wildlife Resources fisheries experts have confirmed that trout-deforming whirling disease has infected the Logan River, one of the state's most popular fishing rivers.