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Show NewDU Film A new full color and sound motion mo-tion film entitled "Water is Life," will shortly be released by Ducks Unlimited, C. A. Gross, president of the famed international sportsmen's sports-men's conservation organization announced today. Produced by Ducks Unlimited (Canada) during the past summer months, the film depicts the vital necessity of water not only to wildlife wild-life but to the adjacent human life as well. Its theme dramatically portrays the economic value of a marsh. "Water is Life," will be shown throughout the United States at meetings of Ducks Unlimited members mem-bers and will also be available to other sportsmen's groups upon request. re-quest. Producer Ormal I. Sprung-man Sprung-man has employed the use of the breathtakingly realistic commercial commer-cial Kodachrome for the first time in the new picture. Sprungman is the producer of many other Ducks Unlimited pictures during past years. AAA Break for Anglers Two and one-half dollars of federal fed-eral aid to make fishing better for the followers of old Ike Walton will be spent by the states during the coming year largely to find out what fish resources they have and what can be done to increase them, according to the National Wildlife Federation. The money comes from an excise tax on sport fishing tackle which was earmarked by a 1950 federal law known popularly as the Dingell-Johnson Act. Twenty of the first 26 fund applications ap-plications received by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were for projects pro-jects classified as "research." Apportionment Ap-portionment of the first year's Dingell-Johnson collections, $2,574,910, was announced last Sept. 21 and by Nov. 1 project plans had been received from 12 of the 48 states. John S. Gottschalk, assistant chief of the Service's federal aid branch, said when all applications are in be expects the first-year proportion to run about 70 per cent for investigations and 30 per cent for acquisition and development. Utah Is First Utah was first in with a plan to survey the fishing ' pressure, the extent of the angling harvest and its economic value to the state. Virginia will launch a similar study of game fish in impounded waters, going into fish growth rates and other biological factors. New Hampshire Hamp-shire has been granted funds for two statewide surveys, one covering cover-ing lakes and ponds, the other measuring fishing pressure and fish populations in streams of the Granite Gran-ite state. Kentucky will experiment with farm ponds and make a scientific study of Kentucky Lake. Maine has filed fund applications for seven research projects, ranging from trout stream management to a creel census of ice fishing. An Idaho project calls for a survey sur-vey of spawning area in the Salmon Sal-mon River and tributaries. One of the purposes will be to estimate the losses if and when proposed Hells Canyon Dam is built on the Snake River, cutting off salmon runs from the Pacific. A preponderance of research is expected at first under the Dingell-Johnson Dingell-Johnson program because in most states fisheries investigations have lagged for lack of funds. Development Develop-ment projects, such as construction of new fishing lakes and stream improvement, will come later. Similar Evolution The older Pittman-Robertson federal-aid game program, started in 1937 with a tax on sporting arms and ammunition, went through a similar evolution. Most of the money went into research in the early years. During the 1950 fiscal year, however, how-ever, 50 per cent of Pittman-Robertson funds went for development of wildlife areas and game habitat, 25 per cent for acquisition of game lands, and only 20 per cent for research. re-search. The remaining 5 per cent went for maintenance of prior developments de-velopments and for coordination within the states. A few states Michigan, Missouri and Pennsylvania are good exampleshave exam-pleshave been carrying on fisheries fish-eries research on their own for several years and are ready to start using federal aid money for development projects. Pennsylvania Pennsylvan-ia already has submitted plans for construction of a new fishing lake in the Pittsburgh region. On all Dingell-Johnson projects, as with the Pittman-Robertson game projects, pro-jects, the states must put up $1 to match each $3 of federal aid. AAA Color Unimportant This will come as rankest heresy to many plug addicts, but we'll stick with the contention that the color of surface lures for bass isn't too important. Of course, most of them are made in a wide variety and pattern as regards color, but as anglers know, the great majority of them have neutral shades on the bottom that portion which alone is visible to the fish. The main factor in fishing surface sur-face lures is plug action. |