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Show Fish Planting Now Underway In State For Opening Pish planting in Utah is under full power except for several high streams. The Weber and Provo Rivers are too high to touch yet, R. L. Turpin, state fish and game director, said this week, but low and clear waters are being stocked stock-ed as fast as the trucks can move to and from the hatcheries. Planting is being done on a more extensive basis than ever before. The trucks are being taken along the streams to more of the fishing water. Tubs of fish are being carried in jeeps and by hand to remote waters which cannot be reached by trucfes. "The state is endeavoring to get away from what we might call 'bridge planting' as much as possible," Turpin said. "It isn't always al-ways possible as some of the streams and lakes are inaccesible, and are impossible to reach by any means of travel. In such cases we have to do the next best thing." All of the trout going out of the hatcheries now are legal size, and will be large enough for "keepers" when the June 11 assault as-sault rolls around. ' It was reported during the week that parts of the Provo River had over-flown its banks, and that the highway was under 6 inches of water near kamas. The Weber is just as high through the Oakley Oak-ley and Peoa country, and reached a peak in the lower area when the water was turned out from the Echo Dam this week. Such runoff conditions as these make it tough on the planting operation, Turpin explained. |