Show Whiterocks Fish Hatchery-Prepares for Summer Season With the lakes and streams ol the high locked in the icy grip of the thoughts oi even the most ardent fisherman are far from the rod and bui in spite of this season lack of work and preparation foi the summer season continues unceasingly at the Whiterocks fish According to Jay Larsen operates the rainbow trout eggs and Eastern brook trout eggs were received in December from the Kam-as When about the size or peas they are placed on trays in the building and inspected daily for bad After the are young fish are kept in the hatchery for about a For the first two weeks they do not require but live on an egg sac which Is attached to At the end of this 1 period they are fed twice daily on finely ground liver When the young fish are about one month they are removed to the outside ponds to prevent The troughs in which they are confined must be swept daily with a large wire Legal Size Fish require about a year to grow to seven inches in legal All of them are not held in the hatchery ponds until that about one-half being planted as fingerlings when they are from three to four inches At the present time there are approximately one million young fish and one-half million of three to six inch size at the Whiterocks During the spring and months more fish eggs will be received including rainbow trout eggs from Fish lake and native trout eggs from the ana Strawberry of Fish When the time comes to the fish to streams and they are placed in tanks and taken on trucks as far as the roads Water in the cans must be kept in motion or the fish would This is done by means of small gas engines attached to each When the end of the road is the fish are transferred to milk loaded on pack and the next lap of the journey The motion of the horses takes the place of the gas engines and keeps the water circulating in the Eastern brook trout arc taken to the higher lakes of the whore they do very well and the rainbow trout are placed in lower lakes and following the pattern laid down by Mother Nature herself the preparation for next summer's trout filled waters goes on steadily all through the winter at the Whiterocks |