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Show A Million Trout Eggs In One Day A record of one million trout eggs were recently tagen from rainbow spawning etock at the state's Springville hatchery, according to the Utah Depart-ment Depart-ment of Fish and Game. Spokesmen said this record take of eggs at the Springville Spring-ville plant came at the peak production period for these , fish and in the largest number ever token in one day through the many years rainbow spawners have been reared at ' the hatchery. They represent about one. fifth of the total of five million eggs expected to come from the Springville hatchery spawn- era held at the Kamas hatchery. hatch-ery. These are the only two of the twelve state fish hatcheries where spawners are held for production. They form a dependable de-pendable source of early rainbow rain-bow eggs which are then processed pro-cessed and fish reared from them at the'other of the twelve facilities. The department said that after the eggs are eyed and distributed dis-tributed to the other hatcheries they make up about one-third of the 13 million eyed rainbow eggs processed by the state hatcheries in the current year. Balance of these ; eggs come from commercial hatcheries and other sources both within and outside the state. |