Show Record Plant From 1 Midway Hatchery An time all-time record plant of ot legal legal- sized trout Is scheduled to be made I from the Midway hatchery this summer I for the benefit of Utah anglers Dave Wright veteran hatchery superintend superintend- superintendent I. I ent reported today to the Utah fish and game department Actual number of ot on hand Is 15 impossible to compute because the trout aro are so thickly congregated However Wright reported that two of Midways Midway's mile-long mile rearing channels are com corn completely completely filled I Indicative of the vast number of ot trout lis Is the f fact act that the hatchery Is presently using 2700 pounds of or feed a day The i former record was 2000 pounds We could use pounds and not a abit abit abit bit of it would ever touch bottom Wright asserted I In addition to the rainbows the hat hat- hatchery hatchery hatchery chery has on hand sock-eye sock salmon fry four million rainbow fry ana and eastern brook fry fr The salmon were obtained from an an Idaho hatchery at Sandpoint and are scheduled to be planted late this summer in Strawberry and reservoirs The eastern brook were received from Cape Wareham Mass and will wUl be planted In numerous waters known to be favorable for this species of trout To expedite feeding operations at the thc big plant the game department recently completed Installation of another re- re unit It is now possible to storo approximately tons of fish lood A mounting problem for the fisheries division particularly at Midway has been obtaining horsemeat Much of or the Utah supply is being diverted to com corn commercial commercial mercial packing plants Midway is pur pur- purchasing purchasing purchasing chasing from three different sources but Wright reports that It Is becoming Increasingly difficult to meet the hatch- hatch hatchery's crys cry's demands Price of ot horseflesh has Increased from Iron 2 cents before the war warto warto warto to the present rate of or 4 cents |