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Show , Utah Gets $73,599 For Fish Restoration Utah's fish restoration program pro-gram will receive a total of -.73 599.13 in Federal funds during the current fiscal year, ' Senator Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) announced today. This allocation is roughtly 45 ;per cent more than the 1956 grant of $51,169.88, the Utah Senator was advised by Director Direc-tor John L. Farley of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The federal government contributes 25 of the cost of the jointly-sponsored jointly-sponsored program. The apportionment for fiscal year 1956 was utilized for 7 fish restoration projects. Fund commitments for the 1957 fiscal fis-cal year have not been announced. an-nounced. Projects undertaken in this program in Utah during the past year, and total Federal-state Federal-state funds committed, were outlined as follows by Director Farley. An inventory survey of physical, phy-sical, chemical, and biological characteristics of Utah fishing waters, $26,250; Statewide rough fish eradictaion efforts in 12 lakes, $5,430; Creel census cen-sus at Bear Lake and Fish Lake to evauate stocking, $15,750; payments for lease on Strawberry Straw-berry Reservoir!, $2,250; supplemental sup-plemental investigation of the use of brine shrimp as food for trout in fish hatcheries, $450. Operation of Strawberry Reservoir Re-servoir station to facilitate spawning and provide source of trout eggs, $750; construction construc-tion of access road to Strawberry Straw-berry Reservoir, $4,500; an economic study of fishing and hunting in Utah, $4,500; (acquisition (ac-quisition of 3000 acres in Duchesne Du-chesne county for Lake Canyon Big Game Range and Fishing Lake, $2,496.50; and supervision supervis-ion of Fish and Wildlife Coordination Coordi-nation program in Utah, $5,850. |