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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS - Thursday, August 11, 1988 - Page Five SPORTS PAGE Southern Utah fjewi Stocking Trout in Utah happen to a fingerling trout after it to a by Dale K. Hepworth When are you guys going to stock some more trout? The above remark or something very similar is one of the most often asked questions encountered by Utah Wildlife Resources biologists while working in the field. The history of trout stocking is the best long and probably recognized form of fishery management. Many of Utahs lakes, reservoirs, and streams are dependent on periodic stocking to maintain sport fishing. But is good REGION CHAMPIONS In the Junior softball league are these members of the Kanab Sixth Ward team, including, back, Coach Torty Reidhead, Brad Dastrup, Scott Campbell, Brian Huntington, Travis Clark, Robert Hill, Nolan Reidhead and Ben Clarkson. Front row, Rory MacDonald, Danny Button, James Reidhead, Shawn Glover and Jason Wright The team won all games played at the tournament in St George. is stocked and before it grows fish worth taking home. For instance, parasites and disease organisms exist in every lake and stream in the State and can be harmful to trout given the right circumstances. In addition, small fish can swim upstream or downstream and can leave the reservoir or area where they were stocked. It is also well known that larger fish eat small fish and manykinds of waterfowl also eat small fish. But most problems are not insurmountable and much progress has been made in successful stocking of fingerling trout. fishing simply a result of raising a lot of hatchery fish? Fishery biologists have struggled for years evaluating the success or failures of different stocking programs. The goal has always been to improve fishing and not waste fish and money. To make sure fishing is improved, evaluations are conducted regularly throughout the State to learn what happens once the fish are stocked. One of the State's largest efforts and most important to evaluate is called a by fishermen. The concept is very practical because fingerling trout are inexpensive to produce, compared to trout, and larger catchable-siz- e lakes and reservoirs can be used to raise fingerlings to larger sizes rather than hatcheries. It is a fact that all ten State fish hatcheries combined cannot grow enough catchables to stock large trout everywhere. Stocking of fingerlings is a good program--i- f and when it Two relatively recent innovations have paid off, more than most fishermen will every imagine, in the ability of biologists to evaluate stocking success and provide better programs. First, techniques have been developed that allow mass marking of hundreds of thousands of fingerling trout with relative ease. This is done with flourescent powdered plastic pigment that is sprayed on trout with the use of air compressor, similar to sandblasting, and imbeds in the skin and scales. Fish can later be identified by a color such as red, yellow, or green with the use of an ultraviolet light. The second innovation is the use of electrofishing boats to collect small trout after they have been stocked, but long before they are vulnerable to gill nets. Electrofishing boats have been around a long time, but reliable and somewhat expensive equipment has not been available on a wide scale or on a regular basis until recently. trout have been works! That brings us to the problem. Stocking of fingerlings doesnt always work. A lot of things can Color-marke- d stocked inrougnout Utah in such well known waters as Bear Lake, Flaming Gorge, the Green River, Strawberry Reservoir, and Fish Lake. Maybe even more importantof thousands of ly, trout is easy enough that marked trout have commonly been stocked in many smaller and less well known waters, such as Lower Bowns Reservoir, Enterprise Reservoir, Lost Creek Reservoir, Blind Lake and other. Such apparently minor details as an inch difference in size when stocked or a few weeks difference in shocking dates has often meant success or failure of fingerling plants. Studies have not, however, been limited to times and sizes of sih stocked. Evaluations have also included studies of different strains, such as Kamloops rainbow or Bear Lake Cutthroat, hybrids such as splake trout, or even genetically altered and sterile triploid rainbow color-markin- g trout. Not all lakes and reservoirs have problems of low fingerling survival. Some are very consistent producers. Still, it is important to know that biologists are monitoring stocking programs and continually looking for ways to make our lakes, streams and reservoirs better. An increase of ten percent survival here and five percent there eventually adds up. Not only is fishing better, but production savings accumulate. It is not unrealistic to think savings will eventually be as much as building an entirely new fish hatchery. Understanding what happens once the fish are stocked is a big part of Utah's fishery management program. d the LDS Church softball region tournament in St George were these young men from Kanab and Fredonia. They are, back, Coach Brent Brinkerhoff, Alan Hunt Matt Purvis, Bob Kinderknecht Mike Dinsmore, Royce Cox, Paul Marshall, manager Ralph Parker. Front Brian Black, Shane Stucki Travis McAllister, David Compos, and David Henderson. This team also received the sportsmanship trophy for the tournament THIRD PLACE IN First-Secon- No Hunting Without Education Card CEDAR CITY-Effect- ive January 1, 1988, no hunting licenses shall be issued to any person born after December 31, 1965, unless heshe presents to the license agent a CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY (Hunter Education Card). In many rural areas of Utah only one or two hunter education classes are taught each year. In most areas there is a class taught in August or September. This enables the local sportsmen to participate in the fall hunts. To avoid being left out of this falls hunting activities, contact your nearest conservation officer and enroll in what may be the last class taught this year. The Division of Wildlife Resources will be offering a special hunter education class to hunters only, just' prior to the season in archery-dee- r These small classes will be held in the five regions of the state, one per region, to provide service to the nonresident hunters, who were unaware of Utahs requirements concerning hunter education. In Cedar City, Gary Mackelprang l hunter will be holding a education course. Preregistration is a must for this limited enrollment class. Applications may be picked up at the DWR office in Cedar, then students will be accepted on a basis. For more information contact Mackelor prang at pre-fal- Tim Miles (left) and Leon Bogedah! (right) stock fry size Arctic Grayling in southern Utah lakes. first-serve- first-com- 586-253- 586-488- Pipe Spring Activities Superintendent William M. Herr said that visitation for July was 5,926, up 688 (13 percent) when compared to July 1987. The year to date visitation is 25,914, up 3,898 (18 percent) for the same period during 1987. The Monument will be having many special August: 1. Cheese August 18. activities making during Thursday, 2. W'ool dying demonstration Monday, August 22. 3. Soap making every Friday. 4. Cookie baking every Monday and Friday. 5. Candle making every Saturday. Visitors may reach Pipe Spring National Monument by traveling West 14 miles from Fredonia, Arizona on State Highway 389, or East 42 miles from Hurricane, Utah on State Highway 59. The Monument is on summer operation schedule with guided tours through the historic fort from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Colorado Woman Wins 5K Swim BULLFROG A Colorado woman, who topped the 1987 womens division of Lake Powells Hall's Crossing to Bullfrog swim, beat a field of 42 to win the fifth annual event. swim is one of a number of annual events at four Lake Powell marinas operated by Del Webb Recreational Properties. A triathlon is scheduled for Sept. 17 at Bullfrog. g Kim Buck's 1:26:35 for the 5K distance was nearly four minutes faster than the 1987 time of 1:30:30 logged by Ed Hadley. Buck, 21, is a resident of Cortez, Colo. Brandon Hill of Provo, Utah, won the men's division with a time of 1:27:33. The field of 20 women and 22 men was double the total entries in 1987. Contestants ranged from Amanda Cox of Price, Utah, to Pat Sheya, 60, of Salt Lake eight-year-ol- d City. Others included Lisa Klarich, 17, of Price, Utah, who has swam in all five of the Hall's Crossing-Bullfro5K races; Heather Seaver, 22, from Arvada, Colorado, who is blind and was assisted by her mother who swam alongside her; and Lisa Reidel, 28, of Halls Crossing, who is paralyzed from the waist down and came in 14th with a time of 2:46:45. Trophies were awarded in men's and womens categories at a WANTED Concessions for the Kane County Fair " luncheon. Each participost-swipant received a souvenir Competitors are required to provide a chase boat, captain and observer with a red warning flag. Halls Crossing-BullfroThe Food Makes A Better Fair g to the highest bidder over $100,000 The Castle Family Fun Center 163 Bids South Hwy 89 (100 accepted E.) until Sept. 1, 1988 For more information cali Priority PealEstate - 644-242- 4 |