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Show Waters Closed in Strawberry Fishing closed waters in Strawberry Valley is on the increase in-crease this year as evidenced by Heber City court records. Two dozen over-anxious Utah fishermen recently payed a total of $1272 to Heber courts for fishing before the season opened, according to Eldridge Carter, Wildlife Resources law enforcement supervisor for the Strawberry area. He said the 24 individuals paid average fines of $53. Most of the violators were picked up on tributaries to Strawberry Reservoir before they opened to fishing July 1. These streams remain closed during the first month of the general angling season to protect pro-tect spawning cutthroat trout which are very vulnerable to man at this time. Nets, hands, clubs, firearms, arrows, spears, and occasionally hook and line are the tools of Strawberry Straw-berry tributary poachers. Pre-season stream surveillance surveil-lance over the broad expanses of Strawberry Valley is costly requiring considerable manpower man-power on a round-the-clock basis. Carter stressed the need for either a change in some people's attitude toward taking unfair advantage of wildlife or a greatly increased law enforcement en-forcement effort to apprehend the violators. Effective wildlife law enforcement en-forcement is possible only through the total support of those who care about the future of Utah's wildlife. |