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Show Fish and Game News Notes ... Annual public meetings of the Utah Board of Big Game Control are set this year as follows: July 6, Beaver; July 7, Ephraim; July 8, Price; July 9, Provo; July 10, Ogden. All will start at 7:30 p.m. with the place of each meeting to be arranged for and announced at a later date. A public meeting is held once a year in each of the state's five fish and game commissioner districts dis-tricts for the purpose of gathering information important in aiding the Board to schedule the fall big game hunts. Board chairman, J. Perry Egan said, "We encourage all individuals, individ-uals, groups and organizations having factual information concerning con-cerning the state's big game herds and their ranges to meet with the board during these public sessions. Such factual information adds to our interagency committee recommendations recom-mendations and is helpful in determining de-termining the fall harvest of , big game animals." Following the five public meetings meet-ings the Board will hold its executive execu-tive session July 12 in Salt Lake City. Final determination of seasons, sea-sons, limits and types of hunts will be made at this meeting with the information to be announced immediately im-mediately following. Opening date for the general deer season is set by legislative act as the nearest Saturday to October 20. The date this year is Saturday, October 23. The heavy run of native trout continues at the Strawberry-Clyde Creek spawning station and traps. A totaj of 1,509,300 eggs have already al-ready been taken at the station with another one million eggs expected ex-pected to go to the hatcheries from this source during the present week. Critically low water conditions have posed many problems at the station this year. A channel had to be dug from some distance up the river to bring adequate water into the Clyde Creek holding ponds where the fish are placed until the eggs are ready to be taken. A take of - six million eggs or more is expected from this chief source of native spawn in spite of the adverse water conditions. |