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Show ber 20. There were 250 permits issued for the Timpanogos-Alpine area. To date, 210 of these hunters hunt-ers hace checked in. They have bagged 105 deer, over 50 percent of which were does. In the Orem-Rock Orem-Rock Creek area 350 permits were issued, but only 281 hunters have checked in to date. Hunters in this area scored a 57 percent success. suc-cess. Only 62 of the 160 deer taken were bucks. The Board of Big Game Control recognized the fact that there is only a very limited winter range in this section. It is only afew. minutes walk for a deer from the summer range to the winter range, and then one more jump into the orchards of Utah county. During winters when we have had long periods of inclement weather, orchardists have suffered considerably, even though fencing operations and herding were carried car-ried on in an aUempt to alleviate the damage done to private land owners. The condition of the bucks coming com-ing from this region is only fair, while the does and fawns seem to be in much better shape. 9 money budgeted for the fisheries division was not ample to feed the Jish until spring. The second experiment was the "tagging of fish released on the upper up-per Provo river in the fall of 1949. Several thousand rainbow trout were released in that section. Only one of the tagged fish in Deer Creek reservoir has been taken; while hundreds of tags have been returned from the upper Provo. This in an indication that even in the heavy waters during the spring run-off fail to bring fish down stream in the great numbers num-bers that we formerly supposed that it did. Commission To Meet . . . The Utah State Fish and Game Commission, consisting of George H. Harrison, chairman; Newell R. Frei, E. N. Larsen, John W. Clay, and G. G. Sanderson met Friday, I December 29, and Saturday, De cember 30, according to J. Perry Egan, director of the Utah State Fish and Game Commission. This is the fourth regular meeting as prescribed by law for the commission commis-sion the past year. This policy-making body will discuss dis-cuss problems relating to fish and game with other agencies, private land owners and corporations in the state. It is also understood that the commission discussed the I possibility of, a change in the licenses used by Utah sportsmen with officers of the Utah Wildlife Federation. Late Hunts Held ... Post season deer hunts on two units in Utah county began Decem- Fish and Game News Notes . . . Receives More Egg Shipments ', . . Two additional egg shipments were received this week from sources outside the state. One shipment from Stroadsbury, Pennsylvania., Penn-sylvania., contained 730,000 German Ger-man Brown eggs, and a shipment of 751,000 German brown eggs was received from Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts. These German brown eggs will be taken to several of the state hatcheries. After hatching, some of the fry and fingerling will be planted in spring runs emptying into our larger rivers. During the last year or two the game department has been experimenting experi-menting with - raising German browns to legal size before releasing re-leasing them. Some of the fish hatched from these eggs will, in all probability, be placed in streams as legal size fish. The game department is rapidly adopting the program of planting more Brown trout in some of the waters of Utah, as they are found to be much better suited to many of the streams than are Rainbow. Changes Planting Program . . . Experimental work in tagging fish has convinced the state that some of the larger lakes and streams can be planted successfully successful-ly during the late fall and even in winter. Such a program gives several good results. It reduces the cost of fish food at hatcheries, relieves any danger of fish losses due to over-crowding, and stimulates stimu-lates growth of the fish left in the rearing ponds because the crowded conditions are alleviated. During early fall of this year J. Perry Egan, director of the game department, ordered that all the fish at the twelve hatcheries be carefully graded as to size, and the tops of them planted in lakes and streams where there was no chance of winter losses. The largest plants were made from the Midway and Glenwood hatcheries. Thirty-five loads of legal size fish were planted from the Midway hatchery since the close of the fishing season. Strawberry Lake and Deer Creek reservoir received most of them. Seven tons of the largest fish from the , Glenwood plant were planted in Fish Lake also. Heavy plantings of large fish were made in Schofield reservoir reser-voir from the Springville hatchery. Lee Allen planted all the larger fish from the Fountain Green hatchery in the lakes and streams of Sanpete county, while Panguitch and Navajo Lakes received large plantings from the Garfield county hatchery. According to David Wright, who is in charge of all fish hatcheries and fish plantings, the many thousands thou-sands of fish that have been taken from the hatcheries since the season sea-son closed have made little difference differ-ence in the appearance of the trout population in the hatcheries. Removal Re-moval of the larger trout has given the smaller ones a better chance at food and more room in which to grow. It is believed by both Egan and Wright that the poundage of fish planted next spring will be as great as if none had been removed for fall plantings. The two experiments which convinced con-vinced the Fish and Game Department Depart-ment and many sportsmen that fall and winter plantings are possible pos-sible were: first, the planting of fish under the ice at Fish Lake last March, and tagging operations on planted fish. This planting was necessitated by the fact that |