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Show FISHING SEASON OPENS ON MAY 13 Due to the anticipated drouth conditions in Utah this season and the fact that the fishing streams of the state this year will be at their best fully a month earlier than usual, fishermen of Utah will be granted the privilege of beginning their fishing fish-ing Sunday morning, May 13, with all of the waters commonly fished by Beaver county sportsmen 'open on that day. According to the best interpretation in-terpretation to be made of the proclamation pro-clamation issued Saturday by Newell B. Cook, state fish and game commissioner, com-missioner, all the waters of Beaver county, including Puffer lake, will be opened then, also the streams of Juab, Millard, Iron and Washington Washing-ton counties. Panguitch lake, long a favorite with local sportsmen, wilt be open on the earlier date, it appears, ap-pears, but Fish Lake will remain closed until June 15, the regular opening date. May 13, the new opening date is more than a month earlier than the statute provides. According to the law, angling in Utah opens on June 15, but because of the prospects of low water and drying streams, Commissioner Com-missioner Cook availed himself of the emergency provisions of the fish and game law and ordered the early opening. An appeal to anglers to cooperate with the state fish and game department de-partment in combating low water problems was made Saturday by the commissioner. In discussing the conditions which have made it advisable to open the season a month earlier that usual, Cook said: "Because of the scarcity of snow in our higher mountains and because of the experience of the last three years of drouth, it is our belief that an earlier fishing season is most desirable desir-able from the standpoint of the fishermen fish-ermen as well as the fish. The death loss of fish during July and August, 1931, due to drouth, was alarming, and we believe utilization is essential in conservation. "We have endeavored to protect the spawning areas which may, be used by the few remaining native trout, and at the same time we have taken into consideration the fishing public, allowing them access to a goodly portion of the streams of the state. "As the season advances, it is the desire of the fish and game department depart-ment that all irregular fishing, all stranded fish, etc., which are noted by the sportsmen, be called to the' attention at-tention of the department. It is only through cooperation of the public that we will be able to maintain reasonable rea-sonable fishing because of the drouth. "We believe the water will be sufficiently suf-ficiently high by May 13 to furnish good fishing. At the present time it is extremely low in most of our streams." Cook declared that the fish plant for the past year has been the largest in the history of the department. depart-ment. He predicts extremely good ! fishing in the early part of the sea- san. |