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Show Bag Limits Reduced By Commissioner Reduced bag limits and improved concentration grounds will eventually even-tually mean much better hunting for the sportmen of Utah .1 A- thur Mecham, state fish and game commissioner, declared recentlv Mr. Mecham recently announced a reduction in the bag limits of ducks from 25 to 15 and the limit of geese from 8 to 4. The new regultions permit the. hunter to have, in his possession at one tim thirty ducks and eight geese but these must represent ' two days' limit. The season is opened from October 1 to December 31 with thtt exception of the following counties: coun-ties: Washington, Kane, Grand Emery, Uintah, San Juan, Iron' Beaver, Summit, Morgan, Wasatch' Rich, Sevier and Millard which will be open until January 15 ." ituuiuun in uag limit was made to have the Utah law coniform con-iform with recent federal migratory migra-tory wild fowl legislation. For many years the game conservationists and sportsmen have been learning ihac the future of wild fowl shooting shoot-ing depends upon the strictest kind of cooperation of the people of the entire continent. From the nesting nest-ing grounds on the north to the southern most limits of the flight the various game birds are harassed harass-ed by natural enemies and men with repeating shotguns. "Conservation in America would be useless if the nesting grounds in Canada were depleted of eggs by predatory birds and beasts," Mr. Mecham said. "Conversely the Canadians would gain nothing it they protected the young birds only on-ly to see them fly southward in the fall and perisli at the hands of game hogs or in poison areas ' in the states. ic"n uiigiuiuiy act was passed some time ago and has been amended from time to time each amendment being considered an improvement. Utah is in line with this to give the reduced bag limit a chance to operate. It will help but the reduced bag limit alone will not solve the problem. But the people of two nations are awakening to the value of protecting pro-tecting the migratory birds and the solution of the problem is much nearer now that so large a body are sympathetic to protection of wild life." Mr. Mecham reports that there was very little sickness in the duck grounds during the summer. He j anticipates a good hunting season He declares that the hunting on ' opening day depnds a great d.il I upn weather and the position c j the flights. It has happened that birds would feel the urge to move just before opening day and sev- ; eral days would elapse before an- ' other flight would come into the shooting areas.. That Is a matter which Mother Nature rules in her own wav George Mushback, the new superintendent su-perintendent of the Bear River water fowl refuge, said recently that he did not believe the biological biolog-ical survey would regulate refuge this year but would wait until next year. .The federal refuge is about half complete and will be imished by the middle of next summer. |