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trout in western North Carolina
| streams
When trout are ready to be re-
leased in given locality, sportsmen
and sportsmen's organizations in
the area will be notified and urged
to select in distributing the fish. The
plan is designed to effect a wider
distribution of trout in public wat
ers. To stock trout properly it is Of
ten necessary to carry them in buc',
cts or packs over considerable dis
tances for release in suitable areas.
Cooperation of sportsmen in stock
ing operations would tend to reduce
overall costs of trout production
and result in more efficient sy-
stem of stocking.
Trout Egg. And Fingerlings
A total of nearly 100000 trout
eggs are now being incubated in the
North Carolina Wildlife Resources
Commissions trout hatcheries, ac-
cording to Clyde P. Patton, Execu-
tive Director of the Commission.
Included in the total are 293,924
eyed brook trout eggs from the Fed
eral hatchery at Berlin, New Hamp-
shire, and $4,000 rainbow trout
eggs from the Wytheville, Virginia,
federal hatchery. The eggs, valued
at $917.50, were received from the
III. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
hatcheries without cost to the State.
One hundred thousand brook
trout eggs and $4,000 rainbow trout
eggs are being Matched at the Roar
ing Gap Hatchery, and 193,924
brook trout eggs are being hatched
at the Waynesville Hatchery. In ad
diticn to the eggs received from the
Fish and Wildlife Service are 30O,-
900 Brown trout eggs and 100000
rainbow trout eggs purchased from
commercial hatcheries and now be-
ing Matched at the Waynesvillle
hatchery.
| Besides the eggs received from
| the federal hatcheries, the Wildlife
| Commission has obtained 1854
| brook, rainbow, and brown trout
fingerlings, running from five to
six inches in length. The fingerlings
are now in rearing ponds at the Ma
rion hatchery, and are to be reared
ito seven inch size for release this
year.
Trout eggs and fingerlings are
received by the State under an a
greement with the Fish and Wildlife
Service which allows for free dis
tribution of surplusses to State
wildlife agencies. Total value of
fingerlings and eggs received from
the Fish and Wildlife Service is
S2,7O6.6O.
Development Game Regulations
The North Carolina Wildlife Re-
sources Commission has reinstated
several regulations applying to
game which were first instituted by
the North Carolina Division of Con-
servation and Development, accord
ing to Clyde P. Patton, Executive,
Director of the Commission. Action
was taken at recent Commission
meeting in Raleigh to put the fol-
lowing regulations in force:
l. 1t shall be unlawful for any
hunting guide to aid or accompany
any person or persons in the taking
of any wild animal or bird, unless
such person or persons first possess
the proper hunting license.
2. All regulations dealing with
the taking of migratory wildfowl as
established by the Department of
the Interior are hereby adopted and
have the full force of State regula-
tions.
3. 1t shall be unlawful to allow
dogs to run or chase. deer during
the closed season
4. 1t shall be unlawful to permit
dogs to chase deer or to take deer
with dogs at any time in and west
of the following counties: Vance,
Wake, Chatham, Montgomery, and