Show SID DO WAY DENIES HE REFUSED TROUT OFFER State ate Game Department Always Always Al Al- ways Eager to Restock rl r ck V Streams He H Says jA l Report Report that R. R H. H a state fish and g game me commissioner re recently recently recently re- re rejected an offer of rainbow v V trout from the f federal d ral govI government government gov gov- I was denied today On th thI the contrary the commissioner says every I opportunity to stock the str streams ams of I Utah with the best varieties of trout is grasped rasped by his department j I There is no foundation In th the report re- re port from whatever source it may have dome Com Commissioner I said As illustrating its Unreason it it is only necessary for in me to make malte a Ii point V of orie ofle Instance as coupled with a standing fact V V We WV have o made an arrangement with the federal fisheries department whereby we obtain obtaIn 33 3 3 1 per cent of all the trout produced at the Spring Spring- yule vUle hatchery belonging belonging- to tie the gov gov- This arrangement Is permitted per per- per per- ml ed in reciprocity for the he privilege extended by Utah to the federal fisheries fisheries fish fish- eries cries to strip fish i in the hatcheries I and streams of the state Last fall faU I I. I was notified ci by- by bythe the federal federal federal fed fed- eral authorities that there remained at the hatchery brook trout fry which had hadnot not been allotted to states in this region par participating in the distribution from this point The lot was merely an excess over the necess necessary ry number to supply other states and was extra out out of the seasons season's hatch V j V When the o offer was made thi this de department department de- de accepted it with V alacrity and anc the fry try was sent to two streams for planting Sportsmen may depend upon it that this is the sort of course that will be p pursued b by this department department department depart depart- ment at all times the chief object ct of myself and deputies being to keep the he he streams of Utah as as well stocked with trout as as p possible V |