Show Sports In The Open Spaces CARDS MAILED Forty thousand game harvest questionnaire are now being mailed from Utah Department of Fish and Game Some will go to upland game bird hunters and to deer The department urged sportsmen who receive one of these cards to answer the questions accurately and return them Dach card is postpaid and Information tabulated from these cards plays an important role in determining the annual harvest and future management of these Sportsmen receiving have the opportunity of assisting in this management Names of those to whom cards arc mailed arc selected each year on a random basis from the department's license FISHING SEASON NEW DATES ARE SET Utah's general angling season for 1961 closed the department of fisli and game reminded Starting last June the day season covering most of the state's trout waters has shown continuing high creel returns from most major waters despite another extremely low water The serious decrease in precipitation resulted in a dry-up of many waters with a loss of the fishery in those Substantial losses of fish occurred in several lakes and streams where lew water found fish dying from suffocation and other factors common to critical drought One long range benefit from the low water condition was the treatment of Strawberry Reservoir at a much reduced cost compared to the cost of such projects at higher water The department said any forecast of fishing for would have to be tempered by the current tow table of both surface and stored water at the present with further fish losses from winter suffocation a probability under current Production of fishes from state is continuing at the normal but waters to be stocked next spring and summer will depend upon the level of each one at that time and tipon its ability to sustain fish plants this year wore confined to a reduced number of waters because of drought with many are normally stocked being dry or too low for These are the plants of finger-ling sized trout which make up a major portion of the following year's creel General angling season for was recently set by commission action as June 2 through SF Recent action set the following waters in Utah to be opened to angling on an all year basis 1 through All such waters are open to angling each day of the year on n 24 a day All other rules and regulations governing the regular angling season apply to all year fishing The by arc as DUCHESNE Boreham Duchesne River below ence with Strawberry below confluence with Red UINTAH Ashley Creek below Vernal-Manila Big Brush Creek to Big Spring in Brush Creek Green Reservoir and White UTAH All waters west of Highway |