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OAT.IPORNIA FISH AND (iAME. 



CONSERVATION IN OTHER STATES. 



OCEAN FISH REFUGES. 



The Bureau of Fisheries is placing sub- 

 way stone and other refuse to a depth of 

 eighteen inches, from Romer Shoals to 

 Long Beach, New York. The ocean floor 

 here is a hard, sandy bottom, and the rock 

 piles will attract marine animal life upon 

 which fishes feed. Captain J. Klein of 

 Bergen Beach has experimented for many 

 years with ocean rock piles, and in one 

 area containing 300 square feet of such 

 dumpings in 66 days of fishing two men, 

 using hook and line, took seventeen tons of 

 fish. This convinced Dr. H. F. Moore of 

 the United States Bureau of Fisheries 

 that such feeding grounds were worth 

 making on a larger scale, and if the Romer 

 Shoals-Long Beach newly made grounds 

 produce results the idea will be applied 

 elsewhere. — The American Angler, August, 

 1917. 



FISH AND GAME ADMINISTRATION 

 IN WASHINGTON. 



The Fish Commission of Washington 

 is made up of the state fish commissioner, 

 the governor and the state treasurer. 



In the state the county unit is most im 

 portant in fish and game legislation. The 

 fish commissioner and state game warden 

 act in an advisory capacity to the various 

 county fish and game commissions. The 

 state receives 20 per cent of the fund 

 from the sale of licenses, while the re- 

 maining SO per cent is expended by the 

 various counties. 



WASHINGTON'S GAME REFUGES. 



Instead of setting aside large areas as 

 game refuges, the state of Washington ci"e- 

 ates refuges for wild fowl by preventing 

 the killing of all waterfowl on the Colum- 

 bia or Snake rivers or within a quarter 

 of a mile of the shores thereof through- 

 out several counties. This provides a 

 safe breeding place and a sanctuary for 

 many waterfowl. 



NO INCREASE OF BOUNTIES IN 



PENNSYLVANIA. 

 The governor of Pennsylvania recently 

 vetoed a bill providing for increased 

 bounties on wildcats and weasels. His 

 excuse for so doing is as follows : 



1. Uneconomic conditions would be pro- 

 duced owing to the fact that idle and 



irrcsiioiisilile persons arc incited to waste 

 lime in the woods. 



'1. It would cause unnecessary drain on 

 hunters' license funds. Noxious animals 

 are, as a rule, overrated in their destruc- 

 tiveness. Nature's balancing of life, un- 

 disturbed by man, is, on the whole, wise 

 and good. 



In spite of forcible arguments ad- 

 vanced, many sportsmen in Pennsylvania 

 ai'e disappointed in the failure of the 

 bounty bill to become a law. 



$15,000 FINE PAID FOR TRAPPING 

 WILD DUCKS. 



A check for $15,000 from Heni-y C. 

 I'hipps, in settlement of a case against 

 him for illegally trapping wild ducks 

 upon his estate at Wantagh, Long Island, 

 has been received by Conservation Com- 

 missioner George D. Pratt of New York. 

 This is the second largest fine in a game 

 case ever obtained by the commission, the 

 largest having been for $20,000 for illegal 

 sale of wild ducks in 1913. 



The case began with a raid by Chief 

 I'rotector Llewellyn Legge and a corps of 

 game protectors upon Mr. Phipps' estate 

 at Wantagh on February 20, when 442 

 live wild black ducks, 25 dead wild black 

 ducks, 5 pintails and 1 wood duck were 

 seized. A court of investigation was held 

 the same day. — Bull. Amer. Game Prot. 

 Assn., May 1, 1917. 



DOVE PROTECTION IN TEXAS. 



At the last session of the Texas legisla- 

 ture a bill was passed extending for two 

 months the open season during which 

 doves may be killed. The main reason 

 advanced why this change ought to be 

 made was that .sportsmen of north Texas 

 were deprived of the sport of killing these 

 useful birds and that the south Texas 

 gunners got the best of the dove shooting. 

 Because many farmers and others were 

 opposed to changing the open season for 

 doves to suit the convenience of some 

 sportsmen, they were criticized and ridi- 

 culed, their motives impugned, their state- 

 ments misquoted and misrepresented, and 

 themselves contemptuously referred to as 

 "silly sentimentalists," "extremists," "hay- 

 seeds," "bird cranks," etc., by many of 

 those who proposed and advocated the 

 amendment. 



