Show Utah Jake SHid Correspondence of the DESKKCT NKwsJ11 will be drawing it mildl > t confess that I was very agreeably surprised when I discovered this afternoon over 10 Utah Lake sad on Mr George F Brooks fisl table Market How for Rile nt 3 0 cents a pound the largest of which I was told weighed li pounds apiece I will b feutcmbcred that II June 1S57 we put In the Jordan River over 1000000 shad fry and that In June 15SS we put In Utah Lake at hattIe Creek station over 200 I01 fry of this mOt excellent fish I an delighted beyond expression ex-pression to realize Hint the great plinls proved to b s > successful as indicated by the presence of these young shad found In the markcl 8 soon after their immersion hut they mu t not be further disturbed until thry are full grown when they will from wi weigh frm three and a half t live pounds each Fishermen should throw lack Into the water all thad not fully matured nnd market men and consumers con-sumers should refuse to purchase any butadult fullsized shad which In eating qualities compared with b time young ones n rl overestimated overes-timated The late Seth Green says onthlsstibject Thereare few fishes in which there Is I r marked a difference dif-ference In value according to their jzc as in the shad Tho small ones are little testier than mosibunkcrs W are filled witli i minute lanes and are almost uneatable While tlio large ones are a excellent food ash hail l on the table Shad catcher of the Hudson Connecticut and other eastern rivets prohibited by law from usingocitmis si Its meshes under five inches nor are they permitted t takcauyshad during tliesawni ng season which is from the ltb March t the 15th of unc I hope that fishermen will not obligetheceunty fish commissioners to protect tho young ehad by tho enforcement of legal measures tit from an honorable honor-able and praiseworthy desire r cised in the interests of tho entire community desist from taking chad from the water until after they have attained their growth and bad at least onu opportunity t siawn Please use your In in support cf the needful projiosJtioiis and oblige 1 concerned And let me beg the markctmen and consumers not to purchase any but full grown 3J to 3 pound shad Yours trulyA A M Mcssiat Acting Fish Commissioner of Utah SALT LAgs CIT Nov 30 1SS9 |