Vernal Express | 1965-05-13 | Page 6 | Wet Weather Slows Fish Plant

Wet Weather Slows Fish Plant utah's wet cold weather is posing real problems in the Dep- Dep Department Department of Fish and Game sh planting program j WITH WITtI HATCHERIES at peak production water and road con do not permit stocking of many waters which would normally be planted during late April and early May With the reg regular lar angling season open ng lag May 29 any continuance of present conditions may well mean some waters will not Dot be planted before that date Stocking of some lower eleva tion lakes is now going forward with plants for the higher cleva eleva- eleva elevation tion waters being held up where lakes are still ice covered or access roads remain closed by byth bythe th the heavy winter snows The Department said that a forecast covering state wide fishing prospects would be Is sued just prior to the May 29 opening of the regular angling season