Share your fishing ideas with the DWR

Please share your ideas no later than June 4

If you'd like to see a fishing regulation change in Utah in 2009, now is the time to let biologists know about it.

Please share your ideas with the Division of Wildlife Resources no later than June 4.

"2009 is still a long ways off, but our biologists need time to determine how practical and biologically sound each idea is," says Drew Cushing, warm water sport fisheries coordinator for the DWR. "They would like to receive your ideas before June 4. Then they'll do the work needed to decide which ideas will work."

The DWR will present its final recommendations to the public in September.

If you have an idea, Cushing encourages you to share it. "We hear a lot from the angling groups in the state, but we don't hear much from anglers who don't belong to a fishing group," he says. "We hope those who don't belong to a fishing group will share their ideas with us too."

Three ways

You can share your ideas with the DWR three different ways:

• e-mail your ideas to DWRComment@utah.gov


• mail your ideas to:
  Sport Fisheries Coordinator
  Division of Wildlife Resources
  Box 146301
  Salt Lake City, UT 84114-6301


• attend your upcoming Regional Advisory Council meeting. You can share your ideas at any of the following meetings:
  
  Southern Region
  May 27
  7 p.m.
  Cross Hollows Intermediate School
  2215 W. Royal Hunte Dr.
  Cedar City
  
  Southeastern Region
  May 28
  6:30 p.m.
  John Wesley Powell Museum
  885 E. Main St.
  Green River
  
  Northeastern Region
  May 29
  6:30 p.m.
  Western Park, Rm. #2
  302 E. 200 S.
  Vernal
  
  Central Region
  June 3
  6:30 p.m.
  Springville Junior High School
  165 S. 700 E.
  Springville
  
  Northern Region
  June 4
  6 p.m.
  Brigham City Community Center
  24 N. 300 W.
  Brigham City
  

For more information, call the nearest Division of Wildlife Resources office or the DWR's Salt Lake City office at (801) 538-4700.