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Show hatchery superintendents to plant when the time is ripe instead of having to wait when the big trucks are available. Third, it will permit instant rescue of stranded fish. Fourth, the lighter pick-up trucks can reach more inaccessible inaccessi-ble areas." The sum-total is bound to be greatly improved fishing for the rank and file of Utah anglers this year, either periodically or permanently, perma-nently, Madsen predicted. FISH PLANTING TO BE EXPANDED THIS SPRING IN STATE A greatly expanded and "efficien-cized" "efficien-cized" fish planting program will .get underway this spring with the arrival of seven aerator motors, according to Director Ross Leonard, Leon-ard, Utah Fish and Game Commission. Com-mission. The motors are needed to complete com-plete the equipping of each state hatchery with its own planting outfit for the first time in history. his-tory. All 12 hatcheries now have planting tanks, the Salt Lake and Springville and Midway establishments establish-ments boasting two. Four of the tanks are permanently mounted on trucks, the others being smaller small-er tanks that can be mounted and demounted from ordinary pick-up trucks. Advantages of enabling every hatchery to handle its own planting plant-ing are several-fold, Fisheries Supt. M. J. Madsen pointed out: "First, it will take the close-in planting pressure off our four big trucks, enabling them to stock the far corners of the state more frequently. fre-quently. Second, it will enable I : |