Show IS sma FISH and GAME GAM ii V utah fisli fish and ga baine d dehait pat t 1 ment law enforcement history was written during october when nil ail even een persons were arrested and fined filled for foi violations of the ish fish and game laws tile initial report for tho the months month s activities listed 17 1 arrests reported lepor tod in by deputy 1 wa wardens den up until november 3 since then 26 additional arrest reports liae have been sent in ill by I 1 wardens front outlying districts george IV W areld chief deputy warden will den announced of the 26 new arrests 10 wore were violations of migratory waterfowl regulations oil kotlier r arrests were for trapping out of oe season one violation fo lation of deer laws three violation lol atlon of proclamations two failure to tag four hunting without a license one possession of illegal game tour four contempt of court on a previous conviction vic tion one department records reveal that never before have so many arrests been made for any one single month ross leonard state fish and game gains director announced noun ced tile the apprehension of these violators has been the result of constant patrolling pati oiling in the field by the states deputy game wardens plus the cooperation of many special deputies from the various sportsmens sports mens organizations leonard also congratulated the various justices of the peace who heard the cases this cooperation between our oui wardens and the courts is bringing home to certain persons who refuse to abide by state laws that utah intends to protect its wild life resources sources le and that violations will not be tolerated one of veteran game wardens vernon yelton admits that in his 18 years experience lie he never saw or heard of anything like it before sunday november Novem bei 10 while patrolling pati oiling duck hunting areas near ogden yelton stopped three 17 year old lads who were making their way up from the marsh get anything fellows inquired yeah was the prompt leilly ne five ducks and a sage sa gehen lieu sure enough inspection of the boys bos kill revealed leve aled a sage rooster neatly peppered through the neck and breast with no 6 shot dont you fellows know its against the law to shoot sage chickens yelton queried sure but this one came into our blind with a hen mallard the boys explained we got a couple of witnesses down there who had blinds next to us further inquiry revealed the boys were telling the absolute truth the sage rooster flew in from over tile the lake with the pen hen mallard and both birds dropped to the boys decoys there are times when a wardens in tasks are tough impressed with tile the boys honesty yelton was tempted to let them keep the rooster but law Is law and there is nothing in the regulations which says one may keep a sage chicken not matter how it was killed so yelton confiscated the bird and put it in official storage for legal removal year around program of domestic trout production proceeded on schedule during early november with reports from the Spring springville ville and kanias kamas hatch batch irle cries that rainbow ate aie their fall spawning season while rainbow under natural conditions spawn in tile the spring a selective tl e rearing real ing process carried out over oer the years has resulted in a fall spawning period for a large portion of the kanias kamas and Spring springville ville brook stocks al J madsen superintendent of state fisheries explained this fall spawning spanning steps up our hatchery output considerably madsen pointed out since it allows us to practically till fill our hatcheries twice a year ile ho said that a shipment of the five million eggs Is scheduled to continued on last page FISH and GAME UA A ME utah butali fish and game commission continued from page 1 arrive in utah from idaho during february ity by that time the eggs we take now will have been through the hatcheries and the try fry will be in rearing ponds thus making way for the idaho egg shipment while there are many factors in the producing of tall fall rainbow spanners ners such as correct water temperatures and constant supervision the biggest job Is to select the earliest spanners ners each year and segregate them this procedure Is followed each year until the spawning period to is moved up tip from spring to fall madsen also reported that german brown trout at the morgan hatchery had started to spawn the brown spawns naturally in the tall fall and no large scale attempts have ever been made to change its spawning period madsen said also coming in are the first eggs from commercial hatcheries madsen said commercial operators tor for the most part also follow a program ot of developing fall rainbow spanners ners since it allows them to meet year around demands for trout |