Viral video clip captures fish tumbling from planes in Utah

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Final week, wildlife officers in Utah yeeted hundreds of fish out of a airplane and into 200 higher-elevation lakes across the state.

The Utah Division of Wildlife Sources (DWR) has been dumping fish out of airplanes because 1956, Reside Science formerly noted. In a online video that went viral this 7 days, fish can be observed bursting from the underside of a plane, carried downwards in a plume of h2o the shiny animals then careen via the air toward the water’s area. The most common species dropped through these flights are several species of trout, a hybrid trout recognised as splake (Salvelinus fontinalis) and Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus), in accordance to Reside Science.