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Show Fish and Game List Of Violations Given by Officer Golden Peay, chief law enforcement en-forcement officer for Utah Division Divi-sion of Fish and Game, has reported that 2,003 arrests were made during 1967 and a total of $37,866, net, was collected in fines. The average fine was $16.90, Mr. Peay reported. Included in the total arrests made during the past year were 430 cases involving juveniles. Mr. Peay listed 79 separate types of violations, but said over ov-er 900 violations fell into six types of cases. The breakdown of these major ma-jor types of violations is as follows : Shooting migratory birds after af-ter hours, 211 cases. Shooting birds without plug in guns, 91 cases. Failure to obey big game tagging laws, 183 cases. Fishing without a license or taking over limits of fish, 269 cases. Carrying loaded guns in motor mot-or vehicles, 166 cases. Mr. Peay stated that "while ignorance of the law excuses no one," every effort will be made during 1968 to get complete com-plete information from the Fish and Game Division to the sporting sport-ing public, through news media, me-dia, radio and television. Proclamations are always a-vailable a-vailable to sportsmen to study and carry with them in the field Fish and game officers are always al-ways available and happy to give advice and answer questions, ques-tions, he emphasized. |