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Show White bass now being stocked ' White bass are now being ! stocked into Delta Reservoir I from Utah Lake, according to the Utah Department of Fish j j and Game. ' t Department director Harold I S. Crane said the transfer of ' enough of these fish to estab- : ' lish a brood stock at the Mil- lard County site was a case of j "having our eggs in more than ! one basket" during this ex-, ex-, tremely critical water year. ! : Director Crane stated with 1 the heavy drawdown of waters ' in Utah Lake it was entirely ! j possible that game fish there ji might not survive this summer. sum-mer. Transfer of several hund- i red white bass to the Delta ! :i Reservoir is being done to fur-; fur-; ;i ther assure available brood fish of this species if this j ehould happen. ! Crane noted that white bass ;.' were finally successfully introduced intro-duced into Utah Lake in 1956 ; after several failures in ear-I ear-I 1 lier years to transplant these - fish into the State, with no i . .,' other water having been stocked stock-ed to date. |