Author: Brooke Baitinger

A fish has been introduced into a Utah reservoir that could spell disaster for the entire ecosystem, and wildlife officials are blaming a “bucket biologist.”The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources recently discovered Utah chub in a body of water where the fish don’t naturally exist, meaning someone introduced them there, the agency said April 15 on Facebook.Bucket biologists are people — sometimes anglers — who move fish from one body of water to another, officials said. If they accidentally do so by throwing leftover live bait into the water or intentionally move their preferred species of fish to a lake…