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Show Fish and Game News Notes . . . i Two million legal or larger trout have now gone into the lakes and i streams of the the state this year from the Fish and Game Department's Depart-ment's twelve hatcheries. This is the greatest proluction of such fish on record, according to fisheries division spokesmen. facilities, feeding of raw and cooked cook-ed trash fish, use of antibiotics, closer and more frequent segregation segrega-tion of fish, as chief contributing factors to this production record of legals. The two ton pressure cooker, installed in-stalled during the past year at the Midway plant for processing trash fish to be used in the feeding of the smaller trout has played an important part in he fisheries program. pro-gram. After cooking the feed is frozen and supplied to the other state hatcheries for use and storage. stor-age. Expension of this facility is planned as finances permit. Planting of legal size trout is near an end for this season. Continued Con-tinued stocking of fry and finger-lings finger-lings will go on thru the fall months. Close grading of the fing-erlings fing-erlings now in the hatcheries is expected to mean that many legal or near legals will be planted before be-fore the freeze-up this late fall or winter. Such plants have proven highly successful in several waters during the past two years. |