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FACTS OF CURRENT INTEREST. 



A number of aliens who have purchased citizens' hunting licenses 

 have found that it does not pay. In each instance they have had 

 their license confiscated and been made to pay a $50 fine. 



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Splendid fish have been reared at the Yosemite and Kaweah 

 experimental hatcheries, thus demonstrating the feasibility of con- 

 structing permanent hatcheries at these stations. 



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state lion hunter J. Bruce recently succeeded in bagging four lions 

 in Tuolumne County. 



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Plans are under way for a State Fisheries Laboratory to be located 

 near San Pedro. This will furnish working quarters for the scientific 

 staff of the Department of Commercial Fisheries and will give room 

 for an educational exhibit showing the work of the department. 



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Nearly three-quarters of a miUion golden trout were successfully 

 reared at the hatcheries this year. Most of them will be planted m 

 the Southern High Sierras, but some will be placed m the Tahoe 



region. 



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So great was the demand for the Trout Number of CALIFORNIA 

 FISH AND GAME with its colored plates that the supply is prac 

 tically exhausted. 



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Hundreds of campers availed themselves of the public camp on the 

 hatchery grounds near Tahoe City this past summer. It will be 

 remembered that several acres of land were set aside for campers by 

 the last legislature. 



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Several additional wardens have been employed this past summer 

 to help patrol the state game refuges. Added protection has also 

 been accorded by the eight aeroplane patrols estabhshed by the 

 United States Forest Service. 



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Ducks are again dying from alkali poisoning in the Marysville 

 Butte region of the Sacramento Valley. 



