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Show The Sports Line Utah anglers will once again have an opportunity to cooperate coop-erate in management of the state's fisheries resources as the 1958 general fishing season sea-son gets under way on June 7. Spokesmen for the department depart-ment of fish and game made mention of this today as they announced the continuation of creel census work on . many waters of the state. Purpose of the work is to determine distribution of fish- region in general. The cursory j investigation disclosed unus- i usually high numbers of beaver i and channel catfish throughout the proposed area to be flooded. flood-ed. ! , Later, more detailed studies i I are projected for this entire i area especially as might relate to the potential fisheries program. pro-gram. This key dam in the upper Colorado River system will back up water for approximately approxi-mately 186 miles above the damsite, to the Dark Canyon - ; rapids in Cataract Canyon. : ing pressure and collect information in-formation on the take of marked mark-ed fish that have been stocked from the hatcheries. Information compiled from this important work will provide pro-vide better harvests of planted fish in the future. Wildlife problems associated with the construction of Glen Canyon Dam came under surveillance sur-veillance early this month as four Utah Department of Fish and Game biologists completed a 5-day, 125-mile Colorado River Riv-er journey from Hite to Kane Creek. Purpose of this trip was to become familiar with potential wildlife problems and with the |