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Show t Sports In The Open Space & V v w ' A A A A. A A A, A. A. A, A. A, A. A. A, A. A. A. A, A Ai A, A A, A' A" ! A, A, . The department said a majority of the small trout going into the high mountain waters over the state this year would be planted by plane for the first time. Don Demming, department pilot, will make all plants with the department depart-ment plane purchased last year. A special four compartment tank has been installed in the plane for this work. The pilot flies solo as the tank takes up the second seat space in the two-place Piper Cub. It is so constructed that solenoid controls at the pilot's hand will automatically release any one, or all the tanks, of the fish being carried at a given time. Experimental runs and the above early plants show this modern mod-ern method of stocking small trout into off-the-road waters to be far superior in nearly all cases to the past plants wherein the fish were taken in by horse and mule packs.. Chief gain noted was the saving of time in planting during the short summer planting period when the high lakes are open and the fish, are of proper size for stocking. The department said it is expected ex-pected that 254 million native and 150,000 brook trout will be stocked stock-ed into waters of the High Uintah Mountains and other ranges as the plane planting program goes forward during the next two months. F & S Two major construction contracts con-tracts have been awarded for work at the Midway and White-rocks White-rocks hatcheries, according to the Utah Department of Fish and Game. Work is to begin immediately and is in line with the department's depart-ment's planned program to each year substantially increase the production of game fish from the state's twelve hatcheries. Included Includ-ed in both contracts will be the improvement of old and addition of new fish rearing facilities. The Midway contract was awarded to Ashton's of Heber on a bid of $52,091.03. Hansen Construction Con-struction Company of Altamont received the Whiterocks job on a bid of $44,285.45. New fry ponds, renovation of old ponds and other important work are included in both contracts. Each year the department plans call for major developments of this kind as monies are available. Major contracts were let and com- pleted during 1955 for such development de-velopment and improvement work at the Glenwood, Kamas and Panguitch hatcheries. F & S" Department of Fish and Game personnel have recently received many questions from anglers regarding re-garding fish they had caught with one, or more, clipped fins. The department noted that most such reports had come from Deer Creek, Scofield, and Strawberry reservoirs or the Lower Provo River between the Deer Creek dam and the Murdock dam near the mouth of the canyon. A department release in May had told of the program to plant some 60,000 finclipped rainbow, distributed in these four waters, for the purpose of determining better stocking methods and the percentage return of these fish to the anglers' creel, i It was noted that marking for indenticifcaticn by the finclipping method is in no way harmful to the trout or its future growth. Different fins are clipped on the fish going into each water. Creel census studies are being conducted throughout the season on the four waters where these plants have been made. Day by day creel sampling techniques employed by the census taker gives adequate data to determine the information being gathered.. Anglers are urged to cooperate with any department field employee em-ployee if approached and asked to display the fish they have taken. |