Show Located at Whiterocks Fish Hatchery modernized Superintendent Max North of the Whiterocks Fish Hatchery has announced the completion of a project at the started last which has in replacement of dirt fish rearing systems with 24 concrete legal-size fish Actual construction of the ponds was completed in but finish-up work on land leveling and landscaping will wait until the frost is out of the Contractor for the project was Ned with financing assumed by the State Fish and Game THE PONDS run in a series of with over Vz second foot of water per Each pond is feet by 6 feet wide and 42 inches Two roadways separate the four with a roadway on each According to each pond will have an individual with an individual which will keep the fish In their respective and allow separate cleaning of each In addition to the above a spring development project was approved by the five-man Fish and of which Paul G. is THIS PLAN ALLOWED for twelve smaller ponds to be built on exactly the same pattern for the rearing of fry or small This spring development was over and above the original bid on construction of the large concrete NORTH observed that concrete ponds are better for several They preserve the fish from predators or shore-line which are unable ascend from the ponds after going down the concrete Concrete ponds also allow in sorting the fish according to size groups and the feeding system on a cement bottom is much more efficient in comparison to a mud The cement system also allows perfect control of eliminating the problem of rats and other rodents digging around the which they arc prone to do in dirt THE WATER temperature Is also controlled in the new thereby increasing the water and improving its When the water flows out of the naturally it is exposed to the weather 7 by running it through a pipe it has a more constant It also kept clean from cattle and wading thus improving the North extends an invitation to the public to drive to Whiterocks and see the newly completed The improve ments have added much to the and will more attractive for the |