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Show In addition to the rainbow trout plants, more than 700, 000 Kokanee salmon finger-lings finger-lings were released in Sheep Creek, a tributary to the reservoir, res-ervoir, early this spring. At present water has backed up in the new reservoir as far as Hideout Canyon. The Green River and its tributaries, from the dam site at Dutch John upstream to Danial, Wyoming, were chemically chem-ically treated last fall for the removal of rough fish populations. popula-tions. It is anticipated by Wyoming Wyom-ing and Utah Fish and Game Department officials that the reservoir will support more than 90,000 angler days of recreation rec-reation annually, when full. One third fish plant made in Flaming Gorge One third of a total three million fish schedued for planting plant-ing into the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in northeastern Utah have now been planted, Department De-partment of Fish and Game spokesmen said today. Plants made to date in the now-forming two state reservoir reser-voir have been made by Utah and Wyoming fisheries biologists biolo-gists with fish from the Wyoming Wy-oming Game and Fish Department Depart-ment and the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Plans call for an additional planting of one million rainbow rain-bow trout fingerlings from Utah hatcheries to go into the water late in May, depending on water levels. |