Show destruction of trout the utah patriot asks ba come of the fi fish h A few weeks back provo river was wag said eaid to be fairly alive with shining speckled beau beauties tiei now it is said eaid there are but bat very few it i ir claimed by some that the fish law is ignored that it ii ia a dead letter fish have been sold in this market mar ket blat could not have been caught with a hook taen parties fishing in the provo report finding fish bah skeletons from which all the flesh was wag forn as it by some powerful concussion such bach as that mads mada by hn an explosion of giant powder those faced ought to be ba reported to the fish fiah warden there is no doubt in our minds that fish bsh have been illegally dest destroyed roved io in no small email quantities along alona the provo this season but there is still another manner in which fish fiah die by be ing allowed to enter the large canals through which water is used for inz ing purposes to our cur certain knowledge fish have been picked up this season from off the lind land weighing from 3 to 6 pounds which came through the wasatch canal from the river at his head and on down into the small irrigating irrig atine streams thence out upon the land to die all this is caused by there being no screens or other do dei ice fee at the heads of canals canala to prevent the fish from entering them as is provided by sec 17 of the new fish fiah and game I 1 law aw of course a great many fish are eventually caught before they get onto the land but bat how many times more are there that lay on the ground and joi if our county commissioners aud and game wirden were more particular in enforcing this particular section of this law there would be less cause to pre lucaa that fish fiah were being desi oyed by giant powder why is this section of the aleh and aad game law allowed to 0 o go wasatch wave |