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Show Annual duck, goose hunt opens on Utah marshes Saturday noon An expected 25,000 waterfowl water-fowl hunters will be on Utah's marshes and other waterways for the Oct. 14, Noon opening of the annual duck and goose season which continues this year for 75 days of shooting through Dec. 27. Closing time on opening day is 5:49 p.m. Shooting hours each day thereafter will begin at one-half hour before sunrise sun-rise and close at sunset. Daily bag and possession li- mit for ducks is five birds. It is illegal to kill or possess pos-sess either canvasback or redhead red-head ducks again this year and hunters were reminded to know their birds b.efore pulling the trigger. Though a bag and possession limit of six geese is allowed, only one of these may be of the dark or Canada species. This essentially limits the bag to one goose since few geese of other than the dark species spe-cies are found on Utah's fly-ways. fly-ways. Shotguns must be plugged so they cannot hold more than three shells in the firing chamber cham-ber and magazine combined. The shotgun bore may be no larger than 10 guage. All persons 16 years old or older must posess . a proper State license and a Federal waterfowl stamp before hunting. hunt-ing. The Federal stamp must be affixed to the State license and validated by the hunter's signature on the stamp. Juveniles 14 and 15 years of age may hunt waterfowl without with-out purchase of a Federal stamp provided they possess the State juvenile bird hunting license. However, such juveniles juvenil-es may then hunt only when accompanied by someone of adult years 21 years of age or older. |