Show MORE HA HATCHERIES UTAH NEED SAYS EXPERT I Improper Planting Prevents Stocking of Streams A Avers ers E. E N. N Jacklin By Ray Frost T will never be good r F JT in Utah streams until ve we hay have Wc mare mort more hatcheries said E. E N. N Jacklin in reply to a query upon a subject et that is receiving considerable con con- Ide ble attention from local sportsmen Mr Jacklin was for eight years connected w with h. h the Utah fish and game department and was responsible for the introduction gon of se several eral varieties of trout 1 If a It hatchery similar to the Murray plant were pla placed ecI In every county of ot the state having suitable streams th the capacity production would Just about furnish furnish furnish fur fur- I nish the necessary stock The cost coat of ot such plants would be from seven to ten en thousand dollars The selling of ot fry to commercial interests should not be permitted permitted permitted per per- and it is doubtful if this was ever ver the In intention indention of or the framers tramel's of ot the present pres pros present ent cot law lay When the sale of game licenses was Vas inaugurated in this state about twelve years ago the rate for men was fixed at 1 or ot half halt the present charge Women and boys who now pay 1 were not re required re- re I to obtain licenses The first years year's collections were about and the second about abolt With this i were built the Murray and ille hatcheries and the aquarium at the state fair grounds The number lumber of of the department was about the same came then as as now and the entire expense was still Within th the amount collected SURVEY OF WATERS It has been said with what truth I 1 Iam Iam am unable to say that from tine to time during recent years sums of money have been transferred from the funds of the fish and game department to the general state fund If this be true it would appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pc pear r that additional hatcheries might be ba constructed in various parts Darts of tf the e state as sufficient surplus is accumulated To the sportsmen who vho pay this special tax are I unquestionably due the benefit of every dollar raised In this manner A complete survey l should hould be made of or orthel the thel- thel waters of the state and hatcheries placed tt where distribution of the he fry Cry would be most convenient It i IB I Ee essential essen- essen that spring water or from fro flowIng flowing flowing flow flow- ing wells be used as streams of consid consia- erable length are likely at times limes la to- t tobe be become become be- be come muddy If a hatchery wert er io located somewhere on the Weber another on the Provo and another in the Uinta basin country those three great watersheds co could ld h be adequately stocked within two years leaving leavin the tho output of the Murray plant for local streams Fishing in Parleys Parley's and the Cottonwoods Cottonwoods Cottonwoods Cotton- Cotton woods has been poor for several years almuly because the streams have not be teen n well stocked FISH ARE ARE WASTED Fry are oft often n lost through Improper planting I li i-li at least one fifty cans carts of ot each which should have havO been distributed A along t t ten n nes of Water w were re taken to ope to ope of our streams our streams and anti dumped from a single bridge It could not be expected that food for such mch an army of fisH w Uld be found within the limited distance these little fellows would travel trevel The e suggestion of ot Mr Bo Bowman man that the fry be placed In ditches or ponds beside beside beside be be- side the stream to be stocked is IS' undoubtedly un undoubtedly sin un- a good one Usually a a sufficient suf suf- fi lent number of suitable places can be f found und if iC the men doing the planting platting will take talc the Ule trouble to look for them Where there are no small side streams or shallow shallow shallow low backwaters temporary refuges sho should ld be constructed The solution of the problems of ottha sportsmen of ot Utah lies in greater inter interest est cot and united effort efton Every worthy member of the tho new club should eb 3 depO deputized deputized dep dep- game warden authorized authorized t to a arrest r st violators O of fe the law These quotations from the remarks remarks' of Mr Jacklin should be of especial lal In Interest interest interest in- in terest to sportsmen Few men In the intermountain in in- in region have had so much actual experience in the propagation and distribution of game fish |