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Show State Dept. Plans 'Expended Fish Planting Program A greatly expanded and "efficlen-cized" "efficlen-cized" fish planting program will get underway this spring with the arrival of seven aerator motors,' according ac-cording to director Ross Leonard. Utah Fish and Game Commission. Tlw motors are needed to complete the equipping of each state hatchery with its own planting outfit for the I first time in history. All 12 hatcher-'t hatcher-'t ies now have planting tanks, the Salt Lake uid Springville and Midway i establishments boasting two. Four the tanks are permanently mount-! ed on trucks, the others being smaller tanks that can be mounted i and demounted from ordinary pickup pick-up trucks. j Advantages of enabling 'every hatchery to handle its own planM-,,; are several-fold Fisheries Supt. M. J. Madsen pointed out: ; "First, it will take the close-in planting pressure off our four big j trucks, enabling them to stock the ifr.r coiners of the state more fre-'quently. fre-'quently. Second, it will enable Imt-'chery Imt-'chery superintendents to plant when the time is ripe Instead of having to wait when the big trucks :.re av.ilhl:le. Third, it will permit instant rescue of stranded fish. j Fourth, the lighter pick-up trucks can re:ch more inaccessible areas". : The sum-total is bound to be ! greatly improved fishing for the rank and file of Utah anglers this year, cither periodically or permanently. perman-ently. Madsen predicted. |