PROVO, Utah (AP) - Utah officials are trying to remove carp that are causing problems in a lake near Provo.
KUTV reports (https://bit.ly/1arota4 ) that the Utah Lake Commission is removing carp from beneath the frozen Utah Lake. Workers cut a hole the size of a car in the ice and then put a net down into the icy water. They pull it up, remove the carp and put back the other fish the net captures.
The carp were put into the lake in the 1800s but are now eating almost everything, leaving other fish without enough food.
The lake commission estimates it will cost about $2 million a year for three years to get rid of enough carp to restore the natural ecology of the lake.
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Information from: KUTV-TV, https://www.kutv.com/
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