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Show HATCHERIES NEAR CAPACITY IN EGG PLANTING The Utah fish hatcheries are just about filled to the brim, and the eggs already ordered will bring the fish factories to capacity. This was the statement made today to-day by M. J. Madsen, chief of fisheries fish-eries of the Utah Fish and Game Department, as he completed placing plac-ing 3,100,000 eggs which the state recived this week from various hatcheries throughout the country. Over 2,500,000 of these were Eastern Brook trout eggs which were placed in the Panguitch, Loa, SpringviUe, Whiterocks, Logan and Kamas hatcheries. These. Mr Madsen said, will be hatched and raised for stocking in the high, cold lakes, where brook trout thrive best. Also received were 300,000 brown trout eggs to be placed in brown trout waters. These came from Iron River, Wisconsin. Mr. Madsen explained that a million brown trout eggs have been purchased from out - of - state hatcheries since December 1. This the pack trails open into the high-lake high-lake country. Only rainbows are held in the hatchery ponds until they grow to catchable size. As for legal fish, Mr. Madsen explained that this year's output will exceed that number raised and planted in 1947. This, he said is because of increased production facilities at most hatcheries which should minimize the fry loss. I supply augments the annual egg - take from the brood stock at the Morgan hatchery, which this year j has already yielded about 2,000,000 and which spawning run is still in I progress. I Eggs being placed in the hatchery hatch-ery troughs at this date will be, in most cases planted out as advanced ad-vanced fry (about two inches long) in the spring and as soon as |