Show Uintah Mountain Lakes t to be Stocked With S Silver lver Trout From Washington 1 Utah is to have a new colony or several everal o of them numbering it is hoped a fair fall proportion of individuals They are not poor fish sh either according to D. D H. H Madsen adsen state fish and game commissioner commissioner commis- commis loner although some sume da day they I should be sure enough fish I Mr Madsen announced that J. J W. W Kinney Cinney state fish and game game commissioner com com- com com- missioner of oC Washington is shipping shipping ship- ship I ping ing to Utah through the fish and game ame department eyed eed eggs ggs of the silver trout which will willbe wille he be e propagated here and the fingerings fingerlings finger finger- lings ings will be planted in the higher lakes akes and similar bodies of or water that hat are not considered at present to o be well stocked with fish The Utah tah commissioner expressed the he belief that the so called so-called silver sUver i trout rout is in reality a species of ot the eye sock eye salmon which has accustomed tomed itself somewhat to conditions with which it was surrounded when the he fish became landlocked In the higher lakes of Washington The silver trout does not grow to anything anything anything any any- thing like the size of Its Us noted ancestor ancestor ancestor an an- for or instead of ot weighing when mature eight to twenty five pounds it weighs only about two and one- one half haIr pounds In habits said Mr 11 Madsen Itis It Itis itis is similar to other trout and it has become the most hardy ot of the trout family It thrives pa particularly well wellin in high cold lakes but buts Is s not particularly particularly larl- larl well adapted to streams It is of fairly rapid growth and when once started in iu suitable waters has proved to provide excellent fishing I and is very popular with sportsmen The eyed eed eggs will be shipped about December 15 and the fish willbe will willbe willbe be planted In some of ot the lakes atthe of at the Uintah mountains and probably in Bear lake and other bodies of wat water r not now plentifully supplied with fish It may be added that the taking of eastern brook trout eggs at Fish Fishlake Fishlake I lake under the direction of William Whitney superintendent of oC the state fish l hatchery at Springville is now I in progress Something like 1000 1000 1 eggs have been taken to date under cooperation between state and federal fishery services and we expect expect expect ex ex- ex- ex I to harvest a total of oC eastern brook eggs at Fish lake this fall |