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Show 5 I Fish and Game News Notes Forty thousand large mouth black bass fingerlings are being brought to Utah for stocking into Utah Lake, Clear Lake, and other waters where this species has been successfully established. Two department of Fish and Game employees left June 15 with a department truck to return the bass from the federal fish hatchery hat-chery at Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The fish are a gift to Utah from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. They have been reared at the federal facility for warm wa- I ter fishes at Santa Rosa. f information to the Board at that time. No fatal drowning or highway accidents have so far been marked against sportsmen during the early days of the 1954 angling season. Department of Fish and Game spokesmen are urging continuing caution both on the water and the highways as they note the commendable com-mendable beginning of this longest season in the greatest of all the participant sports. Dates, locality, and place of the meetings for the five public hearings hear-ings annually held by the Utah Board of Big Game Control have now been set by that body. 1 They are as follows: July 6, at Beaver, Court House; July 7, at Ephraim City Hall; July 8, Price Municipal Building; July 9, Provo Cjty and County Building; July 10, Ogden, Utah Power and Light auditoruim. Each of the five meetings meet-ings areset for 7:30 p.m. Board chairman, J. Perry Egan noted "These five public hearings are scheduled each year for the purpose of gathering information that will be helpful to the Board in determining the harvests from our big herds this year." Egan noted that any individual or group having such factual information in-formation should mark the date for the public hearing in the area of their concern and bring such |