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Show caught first. The possession limit this year will be cut in half and will become the same as the daily bag take. The opening dates as set by the five-man commission this week apply to the general opening. open-ing. The high Uintah lakes and streams will open as usual after the native spawning run is finished fin-ished July 1. Other special openings will be covered by state proclamations. Bass season will begin May 15 and end October 3. These dates also apply to Perch and Sunfish. Limits on bass will be the same as for trout, except that it is unlawful un-lawful to keep bass under ten inches. Minimum length for trout is seven inches as always. FISH AND GAME HIGHUGim The trapping season opened at noon Monday, according to the! official fur bearing proclamation I published by the Utah Fish and Game department. With mink, marten, and raccoon rac-coon protected this year, trappers trap-pers will concentrate on musk-rats. musk-rats. The season will close April 1 except in Washington county, where trapping began February 16th and will close March 16. A break in the weather came just in time to prevent what might have been a major disaster disas-ter in waterfowl losses, Ross Leonard, Utah fish and game department said today. Hundreds of Canada geese, feeding in the Tampe creek area west of Grantsville, came near starving to death recently during dur-ing the cold snap when the freeze up made it impossible for the birds to get the necessary feed. Working in cooperation with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ser-vice, state wardens counted only 18 dead geese during the critical criti-cal period. This report was completed com-pleted within the past few days. The geese were on their way north and came along this far when the cold spell hii. They were kept from the feed when the marshlands froze over. The cold snap continued and the birds, some of them at least, were too weak to fly into warmer regions reg-ions where food was available. It was necessary for them to sit the cold spell out and hope to win, which they did. The state and federal authorities author-ities were watching th ewatcr-fowl ewatcr-fowl problem in the Tempe creek area. Floyd Thompson, federal agent, is reported to have walked walk-ed the swampland eight miles one morning making a thorough study of the crisis. The warm spell broke up the ice before the situation became too critical. Since the weather has broken, state authorities have watched the flocks regain their strength and come back almost to normal. nor-mal. The Utah fishing season for 1948 will open June 12 and will close October 3, fishing hours to be from 5:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. daily, it was announced, following follow-ing the quarterly session of the Utah Fish and Game commission. commis-sion. Daily bag limits for trout in Utah will remain the same as in 1947 15 fish or seven pounds and or one fish, whichever is |