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Show least ona new man-made water will open to fishing for the first t'me this year. This it Red Creek Reser-voir Reser-voir in Ducheine County, one of the newly created impoundments on the Central Utah Project. General policy of the department is to stock subjegal, or small fish, in all treated and newly created waters. . changes in the distribution pattern of wintering ducks and geese from year to year. The fishery program was outlined out-lined by the department of fish and game today for several of Utah's man-made lakes which were chemically chem-ically treated during the past sev. eral years. Mona and Otter Creek reservoirs reser-voirs will be closed to angling during dur-ing 1961, with each being stocked with small game fish which are expected ex-pected to mature to catchable and larger size prior to the reopening of these two waters in 1962. Three waters, Palisade Lake, Pineview Reservoir and Tropic Reservoir, Res-ervoir, treated in 1959, w.,11 open to angling with the regular season this year. Each was planted last year with advanced fingerling fry and should provide good creel re. turns this year. Two other waters, Gooseberry Reservoir and Bench Pond, treated in 1958, w. 11 also open with the general season for the first time since treatment. At the altitude of these waters the slower growing cutthroat trout, native to these areas, are expected to be small but gamey for the opener. In addition to these waters which have been chemically treated, department de-partment spokesmen noted that at lations, however, showed an increase in-crease of 25 per cent while coot and swan populations increased 36 and 15 per cent respectively. Redhead and canvasback ducks, which were protected by closed hunting seasons last year, showed increases of 40 and 10 per cent. Slight decreases in total wintering winter-ing waterfowl were reported from Idaho, Nevada and Arizona. All other states and provinces included in the pacific flyway reported slight to moderate increases. A total of 352 state and federal observers participated in this annual an-nual winter survey. In addition to car and boat travel, 36 aircraft were utilized for aerial observation, flying in excess of 30,000 miles. The purpose of the annual survey sur-vey is to gain an accurate estimate of total flyway populations of waterfowl wa-terfowl remaining after the close of the hunting season and to record FISH AND GAME HIGHLIGHTS The annual survey of wintering waterfowl in the Pacific Flyway showed an increase of approximately approximate-ly 5 per cent in the number of ducks, geese, swan, brant and coot over a year ago, it was reported this week. According to results of the winter win-ter survey the number of duck counted showed no significant change from last year. Goose popu- |