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Show Fish and Game News Notes . . . Any previously printed copies of Utah's fish and game code have no value as a legal reference or guide, according to Department Director J. Perry Egan. The Director Direc-tor noted that the old code of laws, rules, and regulations became be-came obsolete with the adoption of the new version by the 1953 legislature. leg-islature. Mr. Egan said that the new code in the familiar pocket size handbook hand-book would be available to the public in the near future. Sportsmen Sports-men and others wishing to obtain a copy of the new issue may then do so by writing to or calling in person at the Department offices, 1596 eWst North Temple, Salt Lake City. The new game code and scheduling schedul-ing of this year's five district public pub-lic hearings were the chief orders of business at a special meeting of the UtaTi Board of Big Game Control held March 28. The Board was given greater control and management powers over the state's big game herds through recent re-cent legislative act. Such new provisions as the right to shorten seasons, extend seasons, sea-sons, and limit the number of hunters in a given area were discussed dis-cussed as they might apply to setting set-ting up the fall hunts. It was noted that the general deer season is now set by law to commence on Saturday, Ooctober 20, or the nearest Saturday to October 20. Opening date this year will be Saturday, October 17. The length of season, along with special spec-ial regulations concerning this and other big game hunts, will be set by the Board following' the five district public meetings to be held over the state during June. Time and place of the meetings are as follows: District 5, Cedar City, June 15; District 4, Richfield, June 16; District 2, Heber City, June 17; District 3, Salt Lake City June 18; District 1, Tremonton, June 19. All are evening meetings to start at 7:30 p.m. Support was given the Utah Wildlife Federation in a current project to set up local big game committees for the annual study of big game trends, range and herd conditions. The committees to be made up of all interested groups namely landowners, stockmen, the sportsmen and others for the purpose pur-pose of gathering information on the local level in recommendation to the Board. All five members of the Board were in attendance, including: J. Perry Egan, chairman, Fish and Game department; Don Clyde, of me Utah Woolgrowers Association Merle Varner; forest service; Lee Warburton, sportsman representative; representa-tive; J. Wells Robbins, Horse and Cattle Grower's Association. Mr. Robbins was recently appointed ap-pointed to fill the postion left vacant va-cant by the death of L. C. Montgomery Mont-gomery of Heber City. He resides in Scipio, Millard County, where he was born and has spent most of his life in ranching and the livestock industry. Supplemental plants of walleyed pike will be made this spring in several of Utah's intermediate waters wa-ters where this species has been stocked during the past two years. These fish will be hatched and planted from two million pike eggs which will arrive by air from Syracuse, Syra-cuse, New York, about April 8. They will be processed a't the state's Kamas hatchery. Planting in numbers will be made in Utah Lake, Yuba Reservoir, the lower Sevier drainage, and other waters. |