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.'to avoid birds and other preda
trout survived thie winter, but al
high-percentage of the ~bows caine

the work at 1t8 next meeting,

-logical -

- opening week of the season.
~streams and lakes after the close

- of trout season.

~while in| hatchery ponds; how to

with suspicion.

experimental: portion of a natur
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Seturday, July 17, 1954

Trained Trout

LANSING ~ Michigan~s pioneer experiment in ~training~
trout indicates ~ according to
the resear~th workers involved~
that the work: has: been ~~significantly~ stecessful:

State officials have received 2~
premliminary report from PsychoResearch Services, Inc.,
the independent group that under
conse } department contract:
have been: ~sending trout to
school~ at Oden hatchery during
the last year.

The report says that, compared
to untrained trout, the trained
fish showed a higher rate of winter survival and that the angler~s
catch of trained trout was more
evenly distributed over. a_ long~
period of time.

These have been two. of the
biggest problems ~in trout planting work, The fish were always
too easy as targets for the fisherman~s Jute and few ever survived

Also, experiments showed that
hatchery fish rarely lived through
the winter when planted in the

The psychological experiment
was an attempt to teach the fish,
live after release in natural
streams. |:

Fingerling-sized brook,
and rainbow trout were taught
How to feed as natural fish, how.

tors and how to regard humans

After training, the fish were
released last fall in a blocked off

al stream. In the spring, it was
found that: ~A high rate of. survival was realized for all types..~ ac~ording to the report.
On legal-sized fish, the report
says the training: proved of little

value to brook trout, but of sig-| &
mificant value: to rainbows.

Few of the legal-sized brook

through.

The report says the trained fish
also proved ~their superiority to|.
untrainad fish by avoiding~ ang
lers~ with studious caution. Un-|:

trained fish have long been notorious | for their. gullibility; if
be trained to be tougher
to catch;. the angler can be provided with more sport.

The year of research work end-|.#

ed with the close of the fiscal}
year on June 30; the conservation commission
discuss

the report and results of

Hen Pheasant
Proves Courage

LANSING A) courageous: hen
pheasant put on an umusual show
for two: state game workers early

this: week and: showed: the-men er"

was: willing to sacrifice hersel
for heribrood:.~ -

Ralphi Bailey: and
Green, Jacksn area~ game workers,
report. they were making a rou

tine chéck on the SHaronvillé state
game area souttiwest of Jackson};
when their progress through #4,
field. Was blocked~ by an irate hen] i

pheasant.

Unlike most-hen. pheasants, whoi}
desert. their. young. when humans}

approath,: this. mother made~ it!

plain. ~she. wanted no interference):

from: humans;

The: hen. placed. herself between}
brood ~and human. intruders. attd)

started! war: maneuvers. Repeat:

edly, ste. dashed, at their lg |

thumped: her: ruffled wings: and
squeiwked ~lomdly:

Baileys and: Green: conid: see the}

brood was: justin the: process 0

brown! g

is expected to}.

Howard}:

New Seasons Set.
[fee Meuties |
NSING ~ ainie work

have. recommended! no changes b
made in the hare and~ rabbit s
sons) this: year, ani have su
ted: only slight changes in. squi
rel nting: regulations, the co
ion department reports:

Wildlife workers sey. thait: pop:
ulations: of cottantail~ rabbits
again good this year and th
num of snowshoe hares:
fair to good: |

hii reborintelilt an October 1
March. 1, inclusive, season: in the
upper and northern lower peninsulas, except: that a closed season
on cottontail rabbits is again
urged for Beaver Island. |

In the southern lower peninsule
an October 30-January 31 season
on rabbits and hares was recommended:

Fox and gray. | squirrels are
again plentiful in the lower peninsula this year anid game wor kers
have asked that the maximum sea:+
son as set by law: the same as
provided for hunters in the lower peninsula last) year ~ again
be authorized this year. That
would provide an October 20-November 10, inclusive, season on

both species, with maximum ban;

limits as set by law.
For the Upper Feninsula, game

_men have urged that the entire

region be open to gray squirrel.| bag: limit: im the upper peninsula

120 meeting at Haven~ Hill:.

fr
t

| hunting from October 1-20 and
that no season be authorized on
fox squirrels. In: 1953, only the
western. UP was open to gray
squirrel hunting. As for the last
~several years; the gray. squirrel

will bé reduced~ from the maximum set by law.

The | conservation dohiiiieion
'willi degide seasom limits: on) most
small game species at: its July 19 -
~has received reports from a.num
White Fails Or

Squirrels

LANSING ~ State game workers~ admit~ they--are stumped for
an answer to the question: ~How
come all the white-tailed squirrels in parts of southern Michigan?~

The conservation department
ber of cities that young fox~squirrels have been seen with white

tails, paws. or nose-spots. Apart
from the touches of white, the
animals appear otherwise normal
in~ color and behavior. >

The mottled squirrels have
been reported from Lansing, -ELansing, Potterville, Charlotte,
Hastings, Lyons, Greenville, Hudsonville and Grand Rapids.

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