Los Angeles Times

Here’s what ‘thousands of floating eggs’ look like on Utah’s Great Salt Lake

A thick, chocolaty sludge has formed on Utah’s Great Salt Lake, and state parks officials say talk of an oil slick is unfounded. It’s actually more gooey and disgusting than that. What’s floating atop ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Masses of shrimp eggs leave visible slick on the Great Salt Lake

What look like oil slicks on the surface of the Great Salt Lake are actually congregations of billions of brine shrimp eggs, known as cysts, that form when wind and currents align in certain ways. But ...
The Denver Post

Big payoff from tiny Great Salt Lake shrimp eggs

SALT LAKE CITY—Turns out magical “sea monkeys” in the Great Salt Lake are pretty valuable as shrimp food, too. This year, the state of Utah stands to make one of its biggest windfalls ever from the ...
KSL

A look at the competitive brine shrimp industry of Great Salt Lake

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KSL

Why you should care about the health of Great Salt Lake brine shrimp

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fox13now

Brine shrimp forecast for Great Salt Lake looks good, state officials say

SALT LAKE CITY — Some good news economically — and ecologically — for the Great Salt Lake. A forecast by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources is giving "good" chances for the annual brine shrimp ...
CNN

A tiny, 600,000-year old shrimp is now Utah’s official state crustacean

Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed House Bill 137 into law March 17, according to the legislature’s website. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on February 17 and the state Senate on March ...