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Show uv Fish Game Board Notes Arrests Dip Arrests for fish and game law violations in Utah last year show a decrease over 1956, according to figures by the department of fish and game. Total amount of fines imposed as well as the average fine for each case processed by the courts shows an increase over the previous pre-vious year. Court costs of $7,072.55 deducted de-ducted from the total actual fines assessed by the courts leave a net of $22,161 returned to the state for deposit in the fish and game fund for 1957. Average charge of the court per case processed pro-cessed was $4.26. The report further shows arrests ar-rests were made for violations of 56 different sections of the fish and game code. Cumulative reports for 1956 show only 58 sections being violated. i One bright spot in the arrest report picture was the reduction in number of violations for failure fail-ure to tag or properly tag deer. Though this violation once again led the arrest parade only 353 cases were listed in 1957 at opposed op-posed to 601 cases processed in 1956. The arrest report lists the next greatest number of violations as 116 for fishing without a license. li-cense. Hunting in closed areas, 93; snooting migratory birds before be-fore andor after hours, 83; hunting migratory birds with unplugged gun, 64; failure to display license, 61; and over limits of fish, 60, followed in that order. "I'm sorry, George, but I make it a rule never to lend money. It ruins a friendship." "Don't worry about that; we never were what you could call good friends." |