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Show Opening Dates Listed For Popular Utah Outdoor Seasons Opening dates for three general gen-eral outdoor seasons were listed again today by the Utah Depart-ment Depart-ment of Fish and Game in answer an-swer to the continuing inquiries about these seasons. Fishing season opens June 1, closes Oct. 6. General deer season opt ns Saturday, Oct. 19. Game bird season (pheasant, quail, chukar and Hungarian partridge) opens Nov. 9. All waters, with some local exceptions where private lands are Involved, will open to ang-ling ang-ling Saturday, June 1. With few 'exceptions, all will remain open through Oct. 6. The general deer season opening open-ing is set by law as the nearest Saturday to Oct. 20, thus the Oct. 19 date this year. Length of the general season, or any of the many early, late and other type special season, will not be set until the executive session of the Utah Board of Big Game Control Is held In late June. All facts covering the deer seasons will be published, following this meeting. Elk, antelope and other oth-er big game hunts will also be set by the board during late June. Only the opening date of the game bird seasons has been set for Nov. 9. as listed above. Bag limits, length of seasons and other regulatory measures will not be formed by t'le Utah Fish and Game Commission until late summer when brood counts and other field surveys are concluded. conclud-ed. These will be published soon thereafter. The Commission will set the sage grouse hunts as soon as the field surveys are available about mid summer. Proclamations ATailablo Proclamations listing all rules and regulations for each open season are published as readily as possibly after the date they are -?. Keprints of the procla. matlons are then made and may be obtained from license vendors over the state or from depart-ment depart-ment offices, 1506 West North Temple, Salt Lake City. The department noted that only on-ly the 1957 angling proclamation Is now printed and available, that those for all other seasons will be ready for distribution soon after all regulations for each season are set, and again reminded everyone going afield I to know the rules governing the .various open seasons each year. |