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Show Fish hatcheries receive eggs for new season ) Fish hatcheries over the i state are beginning to feel the annual space squeeze as more fish eggs arrive at these stations sta-tions in preparation for the upcoming up-coming fishing season in Utah. Over two million rainbow trout eggs were taken from brood fish at the Kamas Hatchery and an additional five million have come in from commercial com-mercial hatcheries. The Kamas Hatchery also received 400,000 Mackinaw eggs and are now feeding these young fish waiting for conditions at Fish Lake and Bear Lake to improve before they are planted. Brook trout eggs were sent to the Kamas and Loa hatcheries hatcher-ies where they will be held until un-til most of the 400,000 are stocked into high mountain lakes by aircraft later this summer. Midway Hatchery is holding 300,000 Kokanee salmon and these will be stocked as soon as the ice goes off and some plankton for food is produced in the waters where they are scheduled to be planted. In addition to the rainbow, Mackinaw and brook trout eggs, the Kamas Hatchery now has 250,000 Dolly Varden trout which will be stocked this summer. sum-mer. Additional trout eggs are scheduled to arrive and will be put in hatcheries throughout the state until all eleven of the state's fish rearing facilities are raising the fish they can safely handle. |
