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Show Fisli Used for Live Bait Threaten to Spoil Utah Fishing SALT LAKE CITY. Fishermen Fish-ermen in Utah's trout streams are threatened with serious damage to their sport because other fishermen make use of live bait. This ironic situation has received the attention of W. F. Carbine, of the University of Utah. Small fish used as live bait sometimes slip off the hook, and live to grow up and reproduce. Prominent among fish thus Introduced Into Great Basin Ba-sin waters is the chub, a species not particularly esteemed for either sport or food. This fish makes life harder for trout In two ways. It produces many more eggs In the same spawning spawn-ing grounds that the trout frequent. The more numerous and hardy young chub gobble up a great deal of the food that the troutllngs would normally have for themselves. Young trout that survive this period pe-riod of over-competition for nourishment nour-ishment find that their troubles are not over by any mean3. As they swim down the streams, the adult chub, which are big fish measuring up to 16 Inches in length, pounce on them and gobble them up In numbers. num-bers. Young chub, on the other hand, are not taken for food to any extent by the adult trout. To reduce the number of this troublesome enemy of the trout, Mr. Carbine suggests forbidding the use of live bait, the use of nets, and the lowering of the water levels In the lakes which are their favorite waters. |