Show Men Boats Planes Eradicate Trash Fish About men with planes helicopters and boats last weekend completed the huge trash fish eradication pro pro- program gram along the Green River Throngs of people along the river were removing many kinds of fish from trout to carp as limits were temporarily temporarily ily removed ROTENONE used for the killing kUling process suffocates the fish but leaves them fit for eating The fish are being cleaned from the streams preparatory to planting trout The Green River will feed the new Flam ing Gorge reservoir Past experience has shown that newly created reservoirs possess a period of high fer- fer fertility which causes a fish pop pop- population explosion Without treatment Flaming Gorge re- re reservoir reservoir would get a high pop of trash fish to the detriment of the game species AN IMPORTANT part of the project was to neutralize the rotenone as it flowed from the damsite toward Dinosaur National Monument This was done by using potassium ate which protected r rare re dies cies of fish in the Monument area |