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Show Regulations Given On Fishing Yaters The Utah Fish and Game Commission at its regular quarterly meeting in St. George set the general angling regulations regula-tions to be in effect during calendar 1960. The regulations become effective ef-fective Jan. 1, 1960, on all waters open to year round fishing, on those waters where special whitefish seasons will begin and during the regular season for angling now set by the Commission to begin on June 4 and end November 30, 1960. The new proclamation shows only minor changes from those that were in effect in 1959. Among these was the closure to whitefish fishing in the Weber River in January and February. Reason for the closure clo-sure according to director Harold S. Crane, is the lack of reproduction of the species caused by depletion of suitable spawning habitat due to various var-ious water developments. In addition, the extremely low flows in the stream makes the fish very vulnerable to the angler. ang-ler. Portions of the Logan, Blacksmith Fork and Duchesne Rivers will continue to be open to special whitefishing through Feb. 15. Other changes of a minor nature that will become effective effec-tive the first of the year include in-clude the opening of several more waters to year round fishing and the opening of more waters to fishing by boat or other floating devices. Commission action also separated sep-arated the bag limit in grayling gray-ling from trout and salmon. Bag limits on these high mountain moun-tain fish will now be for 10 fish or 7 pounds and 1 fish, whichever is caught first. This change was adopted because of the overabundance of this species spe-cies in a number of the higher, more remote waters, in an effort ef-fort to alleviate crowding of the fish through increased fishing pressure during the summer months. |