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Show introduced walleyed pike. Two million walleye eggs are on order this year for spring delivery. They will be stocked into reservoirs res-ervoirs and other waters where trout fishing has not been productive pro-ductive in the past. BROOK TROUT PLANT MADE A recent shipment of 281,500 brook trout eggs have been distributed dis-tributed to several of the state's 12 fish hatcheries for processing, the Game Department reported Wednesday. They were purchased from a private hatchery in Montana. Mon-tana. A. total of two million brook trout eggs are expected to be in the hatcheries by the end of January. Jan-uary. Half will come from the Montana Mon-tana source and half from private hatcheries in the eastern states. ' Cost of the eggs average $1.25 per thousand. The state hatcheries each year process about two million brook trout eggs for planting as fry and fingerling. Majorty of these' small fish go into . the high mountain country over the state where . they are known to be adaptable to the cold water and shorter growing season. Most are taken in by pack train. The two million brook eggs handled each year are only part of the average 25 million eggs so processed and planted into waters of the state. The larger figure represents mostly ttrout but does nclude warm water species such as the recently |