30 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



Special attention has been paid to conserving the remainder of the 

 native bi^-^anie animals, sneh as antelope and mountain sheep, with 

 favorable ri^sults. The d(!er situation, iiowevei', is unsatisfactory and 

 additional protection is felt necessary. 



Cooperation with county supervisory boards toward eradication of 

 lions, pests upon stocki'aiser and sportsman alik(\ cojitinue bearing' 

 apparent results, as one county after another adds enou;iih to make the 

 state bounty attractive to professioiud lion inmters. 



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

 stocking of inunicii)ally owned reservoirs with black bass and the open- 

 ing of these reservoirs to tishermen. This will 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 gi'owing 

 industry requiring ever-closer patrol. 



Special problems of a local nature requiring 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 necessary special 

 attention, with improvement generally conceded. 



