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Show FISH AMI GAMi; The clci-ipluM of Isaac Walton may look forward to tin; giuatrst season thry ever liail. So declares D. II. Madt-mi. flute fish and game commissioner, com-missioner, who passed through Richfield Rich-field Monday returning Trout an m-npcctlon m-npcctlon trlj) lie had made Friday, Saturday and Sunday and Monday, accompanied by District Warden Byron By-ron Hanchett, to the Glenwood hatchery, Fishlake, Pnnguitch laKe and the Heaver hatchery. The hatcheries hatch-eries of Glenwood and Beaver, he ayn. are being operated to capacity. In Glenwood the hatching troughs are being emptied as fast as possible to make room tor the spawn being brought down from Fishlake, and two truck loads of fry .'ire being ta"K-en ta"K-en every day from the hatchery to the lake. Rainbow trout are spawning spawn-ing fine In Fishlake as well as In Pangultch lake. At. the latter lake oondltions are greatly improved, the trout are gradually overcoming the chubs and from present indications finning will soon be good again. Mr. Madse nis planning to take twomil-llon twomil-llon eggs from Tanguilch lake. Half ef this spawn will be hatched right at the lake and planted there, the other half will go for hatching to the Beaver hatchery and the fry will be planted in Tuffer lake. Navajo lake, Duck creek and other southern Utah waters. More than double the amount of fish ot any previous year will , be planted In these waters during the present year. Commissioner Madsen also announces an-nounces the consumatiou of a working work-ing agreement wi;h the United States bureau oC fisheries to the-effect that fish hatched from all wild eggs collected col-lected in Utah will be planted back Into Utah waters. Eggs from new species ot game fish will bo furnished the state game department for propagation. Tho bureau of fisheries at Wash-nigton Wash-nigton has already shipped in some 250,000 Mackinaw trout eggs which will be planted at Fishlake, about 100,000 Steel Head trout eggs which will be hatched at the state hatcheries hatcher-ies and planted at Fishlake, the Strawberry reservoir and Panguitcb lake. In addition, about 20,000 eggs of the landlocked salmon have bees received. The latter is a new species of fish reputed to be one ot the gamest varieties va-rieties of fresh water lite known. The fish Is believed to have developed develop-ed from the landlocked salmon over a period of centuries and from which It gets Its name. It is somewhat similar sim-ilar to the Rainbow trout. Plantings ot the specios in high moun'ain lakes has proved successful in Maine and ther will be placed in one of the barren bar-ren lakes of the Grandaddy basin, where observations can be made on results. Fish hatched at the federal hatchery hatch-ery at Springville. will be planted under supervision of Superintendent C. S. Wallick upon requisition of sportsmen's organizations and others The fish will only be allocated upon uch requisitions made direct to the federal bureau ot fisheries at Washington. Wash-ington. Upwards of 2.000.000 fish will be developed from wild eggs and planted plant-ed by the federal bureau in Utah this year, according to estimates. District Game Warden Hanchitt, supplementing Mr. Madsen's statements, state-ments, reports that the game birds planted last year in Sevier county Chinese pheasants and Hungarian patrldges, are doing exceedingly well and promise new diversions and joys for our nlmrods In the near future. To protect the birds from the. rapacious rapa-cious magpies so numerous here, Mr. Hanchett Is wagiug an intensive campaign against this canibal bird cf prey. He himself and his employes already killed over. 500 of them, and to complete the extermination of magpies, he Is paying a cent a piece for every magpie egg delivered to him and 2 1-2 cents for every young bird. Boys, here is a new source of Income for you! Richfield Reaper. |