Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-12-21
FISH AND GAME WARDEN'S REPORT

vile, 10000 and Glover creek, 5000
eastern brook
Uintah- March 10, 1900 May 2S 1000
eastern brook October Is, 10000 ma
tive
Utah--Aprll Q, $4,000; Spanish Fork,
$4,000, Provo river, $4,000, all eastern
brook May Q, creek tributary to Utah
lake, 100000 native.
Weber February g. tributaries Of
the ogden river. 1000 eastern brook;
September 10, ogden river below DAM
OOOOO native,
Wasatch April 49, streams tributary
to Provo river from Charleston to can
yon above llallstOnes runch, 100000
eastern brook; September 10, Provo
river 100000 native,
In addition to the foregoing general
distribution, there were Matched az the
hatchery 10000 graylng and 5000 land
locked salmon, which We're liberated at
the hatchery. The graying were turn
ed out because they Go not feed artIh-
cially in the Matching troughs like trout
but prefer TO rustic for their own food
In the natural way after they are four
or five days old, and as there were no
suitable nursery rearing ponds on the
hatchery grounds, 1t was deemed adyls-
able to place them In the spring runs
near the hatchery. An effort was
made at FIRST 20 hold them In small
pond near the hatchery, but as tho fry
We're so very small when they were
put out, the finest screens would not
hold them In the pond, and they os-
capped into the waters OF the spring
runs A few Of the land-locked SAL
mon were held In a small ditch pond
on the grounds but the most OF them
escaped like the grayling, and will no
doubt like them show up all right In
a year on two.
Besides the foregoing distribution,
there We're sold 70 private parties a.
600 trout fry OF Various kinds The
total number Of fry that have been
Matched at the hatchery during the
year Of 1900 Is 23iS,0O0 Only two
small lota, one Of 1000 60 Ulntah ccun-
" and ono OF 5000 IN Kanosh Nil ard
county, died IN transit by wagon after
leaving the railroad Commissioner
sharp Is much pleased with the enect
of the planting In the yarlous streams
OF The state. Trout planted in the
spring OF 1900 have already grown to
the length Of 70 and IA inches, and
weigh from three quarters TO little
over a pound Mr. sharp Is enthus
iastlc over his Introduction Of the east
ern brook trout, and he believes that
1t will thrive in our streams better
even than the native mountain or
black.spotted variety. There are two
large fish ponds now being constructed
at the hatchery covering about mn acre
each. and when these are completed d
series of smaller ones will be built for
nursery and rearing purposes, The
expense for pond construction this year
has been SS2Sj. The sum Of 500 has
been appropriated for this purpose for
i9Ol-02 The legislature also made an
appropriation OF $500 each for sub
stations at Fish and Pangultch lakes.
The fish supply is fast becoming ex-
hausted In these lakes The amount
being too small to do much In the way
of a hatchery It has been decided to In
itiate some intelligent persons at each
of the lakes In the delicate art OF
stripping eggs and fertilizlnB them pre-
paratory to Matching.
Mr. sharp speaks In the highest
terms Of the fish laws which were
passed at the last session Of the legis.
ature. he says that the increased
power Of search given to the wardens
and officers OF the law works well ana
has not been abused SO far.
The commissioners financial state
ment shows that Sl33l.I6 of the appro-
prlation OF $3.50 for the year has been
spent. The expense of running sub
stations he puts at 100000 each a year
The total expense for the year has
been Sl,0l9.S6 The 100000 odd fish
that have been Matched at the hatchery
valued Mt So a thousand would thus
leave balance Of profit OF SOS6O.6l