110 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 



course farther on, beyond the city limits up along the line of the aque- 

 duct where municipal jurisdiction ceases, there has been no objection. 

 Since this sport -within the city limits is so inexpensive and easily acces- 

 sible, it is of prime popular importance; and efforts of this Commission 

 to continue it upon a recognized and properly regulated basis, such as 

 has proved so successful in San Diego's municipal lakes, have resulted 

 in a ])etter all-around understanding and general education of the 

 public to the necessity of carefully respecting sanitary regulations to 

 perpetuate the privilege. 



The precedent thus established already is bearing fruit in setting an 

 example to privately-controlled water companies throughout tlu' south, 

 several of which have found it paid them well to enlist all possible popu- 

 larity through permitting the public to enjoy this cheap and good fish- 

 ing right near home. Friends always are an asset in any enterprise ; fish- 

 ing might help float bond-issues^stranger things have happened. 



Sport in the sea has had special attention despite the manifest diffi- 

 culties of reaching conditions so vast as those of the changing ocean. 

 Efforts to protect the rights of the sporting angler from unnecessary 

 and unavoidable encroachment by the alien professional have on the 

 whole. ])een fairly successful, although maintenance of any. entirely 

 efficient patrol is beyond present financial possibility until all who 

 enjoy fishing of any sort from ocean wharves, piers, break- waters,. etc., 

 realize that to keep net-fishermen 750 feet away from them is a most 

 practical form of protection, for which they must expect to pay the costs 

 in the form of purchasing angling licenses, without hair-splitting tech- 

 nicalities as to whether the species they are angling for is technically 

 classified as "game fish," or not. 



LICENSE SALES. 



Expansion of the license-sales system developed by this office has con- 

 tinued until now hunting and angling licenses are obtainable in every 

 country village and most of the crossroads hamlets. Rendering licenses 

 easy to obtain probably has played fully as great a part in stimulating 

 sales as patrol work, since after all, the nominal dollar is regarded by 

 the great majority in its proper light as virtually a voluntary contribu- 

 tion to improvement of their sporting conditions; "chipping-in" to a 

 state-wide association of sportsmen. In the southern division during 

 the fiscal year ending eJune 30, 1921, $54,11-1 was the net total of hunting 

 license sales ; the last year, a gain of 3620, or 6.6 percent ; angling license 

 showed a gain of over 10 percent, totalling $40,496 net to December 

 31, 1921. Sales of commercial fish(>rmen's licenses, however, showed a 

 serious falling off from $28,(HJO April 1, 1921, to $19,860 last April, 

 due in great measure to the curtailing of the fish packing industry fol- 

 lowing the armistice, and slackening of the war demand. This class of 

 revenue supports the research and regulation of commercial fisheries, 

 together with tonnage taxes and privilege licenses for wliolesale shellfish 

 dealers, fish packers, kelp harvesters, etc. 



LAW ENFORCEMENT. 



Consideral)le comfort is derived from the steadily stiffening disposi- 

 tion of southern division judges to impose fines of sufficient size to really 



