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Show for shooting migratory birds without proper plug in gun. Some other most violated sections Included: shooting migratory mi-gratory waterfowl after hours, 65; overlimits of fish, 56; illegal il-legal possession of game animals, an-imals, 47; hunting without a license, 38; transferring license, lic-ense, 35; and hunting in closed area, 34. Game violations total 1.412 Arrests for fish and game law violations numbered 1,412 during 1961, the Utah Department Depart-ment of Fish and Game reported re-ported today. The report shows that fines imposed by the courts totaled ?36,363.50 with $10,337.50 suspended sus-pended by the judges. This leaves a final total gross in fines of $26,026.00, for an ev-erage ev-erage fine of $18.43 j ""Court disposition of the 1,-412 1,-412 cases shows 42 dismissals without penalty, four verdicts of not guilty, 34 commitments to work a total of 954 hours at various public grounds and is- stallations and three jail commitments com-mitments for a total of 27 days. Of the total arrests, 212 were under 18 years of age In a number . of these cases the courts required offenders to successfully complete gun safety-survival training courses and-or attend tocal wildlife federation fed-eration meetings to gain a broader knowledge of outdoor values. Arrests were made for 52 sections of the fish and game law code ranging from only one to 267 for the various violations. vi-olations. The 267 arrests were for failure to properly tag game. Violations of five sections of the code accounted for more than half of the total numbei of arrests. These were 267 foi failure to properly tag game, 193 for carrying a loaded weapon wea-pon in a vehicle, 109 for fish-with fish-with out a license, 71 for fishing fish-ing in closed waters, and 69 |