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Show ' ' 1 Y ? l-i'Vl,- :-.-1 -srr : Utah's Board of Big Game Control has now set the 1957 big game hunts for deer, elk and antelope. Final regulations were set by Board members following fol-lowing the five annual public meetings held throughout the state a week ago. A total of 1,815 elk permits were authorized over 14 hunting hunt-ing units while 100 antelope permits were set up for limited hunts in three areas. No hunts were scheduled for the taking of either buffalo or moose when management information showed show-ed there were insufficient numbers num-bers of these animals to warrant war-rant a season this year. Board members authorized the most diversified and liberal deer hunting seasons on record for this major big game hunt, when field, public and investigative investi-gative reports showed the need to harvest more deer from many of the state's 62 herd units if the animals are to be kept and or brought into balance with the available range. A special statewide deer sear son for archery hunting only will run from August 31 through September 15. This season sea-son covers three weekends, including in-cluding the long three-day Labor La-bor Day holiday. Some special permit hunts will beein durinsr late Sent pm- Boulder and other high country areas are again included in the program which proved so successful suc-cessful last year. A specially built tank used last year is again being fitted in the department's Piper 'Cub for this work. A major portion of the small fish to be stocked will be of the native cutthroat species, with substantial plants of brook trout and lessor numbers of rainbow making up the balance. Many of the small fish are now being readied at the hatcheries, hatch-eries, with the plant-by-plane expected to continue into mid-August. mid-August. Some 425,000 kokanee salmon have been planted in Panguitch, Scofield, Deer Creek, Wanship, Strawberry and East Canyon reservoirs, according to department depart-ment of fish and game spokesmen. spokes-men. They averaged 2 inches when planted after having been hatched and raised at the state's fishery plants following out-of-state purchase of the eggs this spring. The plants made in East Canyon Can-yon and the new Wanship reservoir res-ervoir are the first to be made in these waters. The kokanee, often called silver sil-ver trout, has already been established es-tablished in the other named waters during the past five years and are proving to be a welcome addition to the sports fishery therein. ber while regular license seasons sea-sons will get under way on several sev-eral prime hunting areas one week earlier than the' general season, or October 12. The general season by legislative legis-lative law must start on Saturday, Sat-urday, October 20, or the nearest near-est Saturday to October 20. Thus, the opening date of the general season this year is October Oc-tober 19. The Board set another regulation regula-tion allowing two special deer permits to each holder of a big game license, provided that only one such special permit may be held for any one of the herd units where this type hunt is scheduled. Other actions taken provide for a variation of the general season from eleven to 37 days in length, for extended week- end hunts, for the post-seasons, and give' blanket authority to the department of fish and game to hold conditional hunts on five-day notice if and when needed to remove trespass or problem animals. Spokesmen said the full listing list-ing of all big game hunts and regulations would be published and available to the public within with-in three to four weeks. Board members are Chairman Chair-man J. Perry Egan, Lee War-burton, War-burton, J. Wells Robins, Welby Aagard and William D. Hurst. July 8, marked the beginning of the second year for the intensive in-tensive planting of fish by plane into high mountain off-the-road waters over the state. 1956 marked the first major effort by the department of fish and game to properly and regularly stock these lakes by plane. Waters of the Umtas, |