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Show Wildlife -Plants Thousand of Trout Last Monday and Wednesday members of the West Millard Wildlife Wild-life Federation assisted Mr. Ford, of the Springville Hatchery, in planting close to 180,000 trout fing-erlings fing-erlings in the river. The fish were German Brown and Rainbow, who seem to thrive and flourish in the river waters. Mr. Ford made careful care-ful checks before and after planting, plant-ing, and according to his findings food and water are entirely agreeable agree-able to the new finny denizens. The planting was from Leamington Canyon down the river. ' The same amount and varieties were also planted in the Diversion dam. A trip was made to Clear Lake to seine the carp and trash fish. Bass fishermen will be gladdened gladden-ed to know that 20,000 to 30,000 bass fingerlings are promised by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Fish and Game department, for delivery deliv-ery to the Delta area, according to Mr. Madsen, of the Utah State Fish and Game department. Also, Clear Lake is to be repaired and re-built as a bird refuge and bass hatchery in the near future. Plans are now underway on the project. The state department is trying out an electric trap, a device designed de-signed to keep fish from wandering wander-ing too far and too wide. The try-out try-out is on the Weber River at present. pres-ent. If successful, such traps would prove beneficial in this area, to keep the fish from getting lost in canals or over the dam. |