30 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Special attention has been paid to conserving the remainder of tlie 

 native big-game animals, such as antelope and mountain sheep, with 

 favorable results. The deer situation, however, is unsatisfactory and 

 additional protection is felt necessary. 



Cooperation with count}' supervisor}' boards toward eradication of 

 lions, pests upon stockraiser and sportsman alike, continue bearing 

 apparent results, as one county after another adds enough to make the 

 state bounty attractive to professional lion hunters. 



A plan is being worked out to furnish additional sport through the 

 stocking of municipally owned reservoirs with black bass and the open- 

 ing of these reservoirs to fishermen. This yAU provide easily accessible 

 and inexpensive fishing. 



Regulation of commercial fisheries has had constant attention in 

 cooperation with the Commercial Fisheries Department, whose special 

 responsibility it is, the south now being the center of a steadily growing 

 industry requiring ever-closer patrol. 



Special problems of a local nature reciuiring intensive patrol of the 

 congested centers of duck-shooting interest ; the lee waters of Santa Cata- 

 lina Island, reserved for their attraction-value to sportsmen from the 

 world over; lobsters, clams, all have come in for the neeessarj^ special 

 attention, with improvement generally conceded. 



