Thousands of juvenile fish are dropped from a plane into Utah lakes [Video]

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We've all heard of flying fish, but thousands of juvenile trout took a nosedive from an airplane as part of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources efforts to replenish lakes.

Video released by the Division on Friday showed countless 'fingerlings,' or fish under the age of one, released last week from a chute as the plane flew over some 200 high-elevation lakes across Utah that are not accessible by other means.

The plane holds hundreds of pounds of water and can drop 35,000 fish in a single flight without reloading, the division said in a Facebook post. 

The department indicated the fish are just one to three inches long and 'flutter down slowly' to the water.

'The air slows their drop and they fall a bit like leaves. The slower fall allows the fish to survive. If the fish were larger, the survival rate would not be as high.'

Aerial fish stocking has been employed in the state since the mid 1950s and the department says that survival rate is between 95

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