The shoreline of Utah’s Great Salt Lake frames an otherworldly body of water, from pastel pink to deep marine blue. In the fall, its surface transforms with slicks of gold—made from millions of ...

Shrimp started to lose the energy to reproduce as the lake's levels dropped and its water got saltier. It was a major concern, not just for people who harvest brine shrimp. "If we lost the Great ...

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In Utah these cysts help the artemia survive over the winter. [Related: The business of the brine shrimp harvest and how the state regulates it, from PBS Utah] When dry, the cysts are naturally ...

The 2022-2023 Great Salt Lake brine shrimp harvest, which runs from October through January, gathered 19.6 million pounds of cysts. That’s about two-thirds of what was collected the season prior ...

A forecast by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is giving "good" chances for the annual brine shrimp harvest on the lake. Brine shrimp are a lucrative industry on the lake, bringing in ...

SALT LAKE CITY — In a landlocked state 600 miles from the nearest ocean, fleets of commercial fishermen compete for a creature that in spite of its minuscule size makes for quite a fish tale.

Brine shrimp join other unusual Utah state symbols such as the state dinosaur – the Utahraptor, obviously – and the state cooking pot, a Dutch oven. Brine shrimp are “small crustaceans that ...

SOUTH ARAL SEA, Uzbekistan — As the rising sun casts golden rays over the Aral Sea, a group of Uzbek fishermen wearing sweatshirts and knit caps gathered on a chilly beach to discuss the day’s ...