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Show Fish & Game Dept. To Make Record Trout Plant Final preparations for the largest lar-gest plant of legal-sized trout in Utah history were mapped at a recent re-cent meeting of fisheries' Division workers with Ross Leonard, State Fish and Gamp Director. M. J. MadseA, Superintendent of State Fisheries, announced the planting program will get under way around May 10, depending on water and weather conditions. "From then on until opening of the general season on June 14, the planting program will be an almost al-most continuous operation," he asserted. as-serted. In readiness for the big drive to stock Utah's lakes, reservoirs, and streams are the department's 15 fish planting truck units. Each of the 12 hatcheries has been equipped equip-ped with a small truck unit to handle hauls of 35 miles or less, while the remaining three large units will operate out of all hatcheries hat-cheries on hauls up to 250 miles. "We expect to have all streams accessible by ,auto planted well in time for the general opening on June 14," Madsen said. He pointed out that waters not accessible by auto would be planted by pack train later in the season. Most of the waters in the latter category are in the high Uintah area and do not open until July 1, date for waters over 7000 feet elevation. Meanwhile, the Department extended ex-tended an invitation to all interested inter-ested sportsmen to visit any one of the 12 hatcheries and see for themselves them-selves the : amount of legals on hand and ready to plant. |