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Show TWO MILLION LEGAL TROUT PLANTED IN '52 Two million legal or larger trout have now gone into the lakes and streams of the state this year from the fish and game department's depart-ment's 12 hatcheries This is the greatest production of such fish on record, according to fisheries division spokesmen. They sight expanded hatchery facilities, feeding of raw and cooked trash fish, use of antibiotics, antibi-otics, closer and more frequent segregation of fish, as chief contributing con-tributing factors to this production produc-tion record of legals. The two ton pressure cooker, installed in-stalled during the past year at the Midway plant for processing trash fish to be used in the feeding of the smaller trout has played an important part in the fisheries program. After cooking the feed is frozen and supplied to the other state hatcheries for use and storage. Expansion of this facility is planned as finnances permit. Planting of legal size trout is near the end of this season. Continued Con-tinued stocking of fry and finger-lings finger-lings will go on through the fall months. Close grading of the fingerling now in the hatcheries is expected to mean that many legal or near legals will be planted plant-ed before the freeze-up this fall or winter. Such plants have proven highly successful in several waters wa-ters during the past two years. One and one half million Yellowstone Yel-lowstone native trout eggs received this week brings the total of such eggs received from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Utah to just under 3,000,000. All are being processed at various of the state hatcheries for early planting in Utah. |