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Show The Sports Line Utah's buffalo herd appears to be holding its own, depart- I ment of fish and game spokesmen spokes-men announced today after the i recent annual census of the I herd. j This year's census shows 49 j animals and represents the highest count of buffalo made in several years, the department depart-ment said. The census, made by airplane, showed 41 mature and 8 young animals. The herd ranges in Wayne and Garfield counties in the vicinity of Hanksville and the i Henry Mountains. ! The buffalo count along with aerial census' of elk, deer, antelope and moose make up an important part of the regular reg-ular winter activities of the department, it was stated. Information In-formation gathered from this work is important in the formulation for-mulation of mangement plans for the coming years. Of interest to Utah's fishermen fisher-men today was the department of fish and game announcement that the winter spawn-taking program is now, .proceeding at full speed. Approximately 10,203,000 of the eggs have been or are being be-ing processed through the hatching hat-ching troughs for rearing at the department's 12 hatcheries. The above figure includes 138,-000 138,-000 kokanee salmon, 65,000 mackinaw trout, 7 million rainbow rain-bow trout and 3 million brown trout. While much of the stock has been secured commercially, the rainbow trout spawning stock held at two state hatcheries have yielded some 4 million eggs to date and fisheries experts ex-perts estimate that another 2 million eggs will be taken before be-fore the spawning period ends. These rainbow trout eggs will make up a large portion of the anglers creel returns as they now mature to legal size at the hatcheries for planting during 1958. Sportmen who are interested in the management of their fishery resource were reminded today that all of the state's hatcheries are open to visitors. |