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Show Buck Bag Will Be Limited To 15 Birds A dispatch from Washington announces an-nounces that Secretary Hyde has decreed de-creed that the number of ducks that may he killed in 1930 has been reduc-ed reduc-ed from 25 to 15, and the number of geese from' 8 to -4. Concerning the decree J. Arthur Mecham, state game and fish commissioner says that he was aware of the pending change in federal regulations as announced by Secretary Hyde and that Utah is ready to conform with the limitations It is the commissioner's conviction that taken over a period of several I years, ducks are really on the decline. de-cline. Some years are more outstanding out-standing than others, as was the present when hundreds of thousands of ducks died due to the unusual 1 1 conditions. It has been found, according to the commissioner, that the deaths during the last year were due mainly main-ly to rapid receding of the waters during the nesting period. Canada reports that thousands of the ducks in that district never found the water wat-er after the hatching season, due to the nests having built in the water lines at the high water season and the water, receding faster than usual, us-ual, when expected rains failed to I Utah lost many thousands of ducks due to similar conditions, and periods of like losses have been registered during the past few years. Commissioner Mecham expressed the opinion that a few years might -bring about a better condition, which again would likely result in the bird i limit being increased. The regular season on ducks clos- , ed a three months' activity Decern-' ber 31 and nimrods must forego their favored sport until October 1, 1930, with the exception of in thirteen i counties of the state. Shooting in ' the following counties carries an expended ex-pended open season until January 15: Rich, Summit, and Morgan of the ! northern district, and Uintah, San-' San-' pete, Millard, San Juan, Iron, Sevier, j Washington, Grand, Kane and Beav- 'Commissioner Mecham reported, that the duck hunting was very good, the early part of the season, but that; nimrods had reported ill luck during the later stages of the period. Freez-1 Freez-1 ing weather had driven even the mal-! mal-! lards south, declared the fish and i game commissioner. |