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Show I Utah Fish & Game Commission Hews MOURNING DOVE SEASON Utahns will hunt Mourning Dove in all of thirteen counties and part ol two others from Sept. 1 thru September 10 this year. Earlier Ear-lier recommendations by the Fish and Game Commission became official of-ficial recently when they were accepted ac-cepted by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Wild-life Service, controlling agency for all migratory birds. Counties open to shooting will be Beaver, Emery, Iron, Grand, Juab, Millard, San Juan, Sanpete, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Washington, Wayne, and parts of Duchesne and Salt Lake counties. Much enthusiasm was expressed by sportsmen participating in the dove hunt last year. It is expected that mnrrv imnrp will en afield I this season to hunt this fine game bird. All Field reports indicate there will be ample birds in all areas open to shooting. Bag and possession limit are both ten birds. No larger bore than a ten guage shotgun may be used and said shotgun must not be capable of holding more than three shells in magazine and cham ber combined. Shooting hours are from one-half hour beofre sunrise to sunset. Sportsmen should check these times daily for the district in which they expect to hunt. Either Eith-er the game bird or combination fishing or hunting license is required requir-ed before going afield for doves. RECORD HATCHERY OUTPUT Two million legal or larger trout have now gone into the lakes and streams of the state this year from the Fish and Game Department's Depart-ment's twelve hatcheries. This is the greatest production of such fish on record, according to fisheries fisher-ies division spokesmen. They say expanded hatchery fac ilities, feeding of raw and cooked cook-ed trash fish, use of antibiotics, closer and more frequent segregation segrega-tion of fish, as chief contributing factors to this production record of legals. TROUT EGGS SHIPPED TO UTAH One and one half million Yellowstone Yel-lowstone Native Trout eggs received re-ceived this week brings the total of such eggs received from the US Fish and Wildlife Service to iust under three million. All are J j irti.c nf the being processed at various of the State Hatcheries for early planting to waters over the state. One or two more shipments of eggs are expected from this source These are the eggs annually received rece-ived in payment ofr the work of department employees who help the Service with the spawning run in Yellowstone Park each spring. One million grayling eggs were earlier received for eventual planting plan-ting in selected lakes of the high Uintahs. -ri -A1 SOME FISHING WATERS CLOSE Sportsmen should note the following fol-lowing early closing to fishing of some waters as originally noted in the 1952 Angling Proclamation. Such closures and dates include: Cache County, Newton Reservoir, August 3; all waters in Northwestern Northwes-tern Box Elder County including the Raft River and its tributaries, August 3; Stawberry River from its confluence with Avintaquin Creek to Sulphur Springs, August 3;Witts Lake in Wasatch County, Sept. 1. |