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Show Sportsmen To Study Plans Trout Ponds STATE TO FURNISH FISH FOR PLANTING NYA Project Okeyed To Sein, Process Trash Fish Here Visualizing the possibility of obtaining ob-taining 500.(100 or more fish for planting in this county, the Franklin Frank-lin County Fish and Game association associa-tion and other interested sportsmen sports-men were pleased to hear this week that the State Fish and Game Department De-partment would cooperate. In a letter from Owen W. Morris, director of the Idaho Fish and Game Department, to C. S. Code, . conservation officer, the director stated that the state would bo in a position to furnish sufficient quantities of fish to fill rearing ponds after they had been established estab-lished in this county. Conservation Officer Code believes be-lieves that at least half a million 1 inch minnows could be obtained if satisfactory ponds were constructed. con-structed. Last year this county received about one-fourth of lb amount for planting, 125,000. A move is now underway t' crease the membership o' Franklin County Fish an association to a point wl r'icicnt 'finances would 1 able for the construction which is the present ; be solved before the pre,, be carried out. , e Also approved is an NYA pi --o 3 for seining ..IT;, u .-. . ossng. ot trash fish from the streams in the county. coun-ty. The program has been okeyed both by the Fish and Game Department Depart-ment and by the NYA. I n a |