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Show Flaming Gorge stocked with over 80,000 bass Flaming Gorge Reservoir has been stocked with nearly 80,000 smallmouth bass flown in from Arkansas as an experimental plant to see if this new species of fish would adapt to this big Reservoir and provide another fish for the Utah angler. Donated by the Arkansas Department De-partment of Fish and Game, the bass were f lown in from the hatchery to Rock Springs, Wyoming and taken by truck to Flaming Gorge where they were stocked from boats at several selected sites. These fish were only a few days old when prepared for the long trip to Utah. The small fish were packed in plastic bags, the bags filled with oxygen oxy-gen and then packed in insulated insul-ated cardboard boxes for the trip. Smallmouth bass are close relatives to the largemouth bass already in several Utah waters and are very similar in appearance, although they are adapted to colder waters than the largemouth. Additional stocking of the smallmouth are expected in an effort to establish this species since they will occupy an ecological eco-logical niche in the Reservoir not presently used by other fish. Considering the small size of the bass, it will be some years before they will be caught by fishermen. Stocking of 680,000 two to four inch rainbow trout into Flaming Gorge Reservoir by the Utah and Wyoming Fish and Game Department person-Lei person-Lei was completed last week. All of these fish were stocked into the reservoir using fish planting barges. These barges allow the fish to be stocked in numerous locations in both Utah and Wyoming parts of Flaming Gorge. Last week's plant of rainbows rain-bows came from both federal and Utah Fish and Game Department De-partment hatcheries. Wyoming has already stocked approximately approxi-mately 500,000 fish in Flaming Gorge this year. An estimated two and one-half one-half million fish will be stocked in Flaming Gorge in 1967 from state and federal fish hatcheries. hatch-eries. Anglers are not expected to begin catching any fish from this year's fish plants until 1968 when these fish will be about 10 inches long. The majority of the fish stocked this year, which are caught, will have been taken by fishermen by 1970 as studies stu-dies show few fish older than four years remain in the reservoir. res-ervoir. Heart disease was the leading lead-ing cause of death in Ceylon last year, according to the island's is-land's hospitals. Of the 25,433 recorded deaths, 2,683 were from heart disease a little over 10 of the total. The ancient Phoenicians were the first to introduce liquor into in-to Ireland. |