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Show 2B Sun Advocate Price, Utah Tuesday March 16,2004 Utah hatchery provides for majority of state, keeps eastern Utah fishing different strains of rainbow trout. In exchange for these Many eastern Utah residents spend a good portion of their leisure time fishing for trout in area lakes and risers. But. when eggs, Utah's sportsmen receive other kinds of a large tug is felt on the line, most have probably not considered how that fish got there in the first place. It was probably raised from an egg in one of the 10 fish hatcheries managed by the Div ision of Wildlife Resources. It takes many hours of work and an extensive amount of expertise to get the fish to the stage in its life where it is enjoyed on the end of a fishing line. The egg the trout hatched from probably came from a brood hatchery in Bicknell called the J. Perry Egan Hatchery after a former DWR director. This hatchery provides most of the eggs for the other nine state hatcheries in Utah. Surplus eggs from the hatchery are also shipped to other state, federal and Indian tribal hatcheries across the United States. As an additional fisheries management tool, the hatchery is involved with a process to induce rainbow trout to become triploid Triploid means the fish will have three sets of chromosomes instead of the agencies. The process for taking normal two, making the is a fish sterile. one eggs complex DWR aquatics managers carried out by highly trained personnel. The Egan have requested this so e rainbows can be stocked in hatchery has six Don waters where natural Bone, employees: Richard Jensen, Dennis reproduction is not wanted or where the threat of Hiskey, George Coombs, rainbow trout crossing with Dave Behunin and Dwight Brinkerhoff. cutthroat trout is a possibilNo other hatchery crew ity. in Utah has more years of The Egan crew assists in experience than the crew at this effort by taking cutthroat trout eggs at two Egan, whose combined vv ild trout years of service total more traps in than 120 years. From Daughtery Basin and September to April, the Manning Meadow in the hatchery crew will take spring to help with the approximately 20 million propagation of that species. The Egan Hatchery also eggs to bolster fisheries houses one of the two throughout Utah. statewide fish Eggs provided by the include lake trucks. Behunin drives this trout, hatchery truck from April through splake, tiger trout, albino rainbow trout, brook trout, October. He travels more than brown trout and three 30.000 miles yearly, delivering fish raised at all of the state hatcheries and the Jones Hole Federal Hatchery near Vernal. In 2003, the Egan crew also stocked more than rain206.000 seven-incbow trout in Fish Lake, rainbow 495.000 three-inc- h trout in Scofield Reservoir and more than 7,750 broodstock throughout the state. All of these fish were raised at Egan. During the four months that the crew is not spawning fish, they are busy maintaining the facility and getting equipment ready for the next spawning season. Tucked away in southern Utah, the Egan Hatchery plays an important role in providing anglers the thrill of hooking a fish. The hatchery staff said they wish they could invite visitors to see the facility and meet the crew, but its closed to tours because of the threat of introducing whirling disease to the wildlife, such as turkeys, mountain goats and other species of fish. This is done through a barter system established with the other wildlife full-tim- four-tank- SPU Jeremy Lamph, Andy Hyer and Alden Moon celebrate the top three finishes Results from the singles and d doubles tournament at the College of Eastern Utahs h Athletic Center were as follows: Bunnell-Dmitric- Intermediate 1st Jeremy Lamph 2nd Andy Hyer 3rd Alden Moon Co-e- d ! Price Civic Auditorium 4 hatchery. Doubles st Wendy Meeks and Rinji Gregersen 2nd Jodi Anderson and Jeff Anderson 3rd Randi Williams and Jerimiah Davies 1 h 7:30 p.m. SPtt Wendy Meeks and Rinji Gregersen teamed up for a People planning to take white-taile- prairie dogs (this d includes shooting, trapping and any other method of capture or killing) in Carbon County, or any other location in Utah, need to be aware of a change in the regulations. The prairie dog, Cynomys leucurus, has been added to the seasonal closure white-taile- d list along with the Gunnison dog, prairie Cynomys gunnisoni. The closed season for both species is from April through June 15. During this time, no taking of prairie dogs is allowed. The seasonal closure for both species includes their entire range. In addition to the d seasonal closure, in the prairie dogs Coyote Basin area of northeast Utah are protected 1 white-taile- year-roun- d. black-foote- When Quality Counts IS IF ADVOCATE both species of prairie dogs are part of a protective action to try and keep the two species from slipping further toward extinction. Both species have seen serious declines in their population numbers and available quality habitat. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been petitioned to place both species on the federal endangered species list. An exception to the seasonal closure is those animals directly involved in causing damage to agricultural and private lands. 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