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FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



realize the arduous nature of the work required of our deputies, fish 

 hatchery assistants, cannery inspectors, and game farm employees. 

 High grade men are essential if our work is properly done, and we are 

 justly proud of the men who make up our organization. It is believed 

 that the salary scales established for certain of our activities should be 

 raised to attract the type of men needed. 



Notable accomplishments during the biennium include the purchase 

 and development of a 3000-acre refuge for migratory waterfowl in the 

 San Joaquin Valley, near IjOs Bauos; the completion of the Bluefin, a 

 new seagoing patrol boat for the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 

 specially equipped for scientific research; the completion of the Los 

 Serranos Game Farm, near Chino, San Bernardino County ; the com- 

 pletion of the Xavarro River jetty; the construction of the Yuba River 



Fig. 1. New patrol boat, Bluefin. Photography by D. H. Fry, Jr., August 27, 1930. 



Hatchery, and two series of rearing ponds in the southern part of the 

 state ; and the planting of striped bass in the Salton Sea. 



The division has continued to contribute to, and work with, the 

 Hooper Foundation for Medical Research of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, in the study of problems relating to the fish canning industry, 

 and the control of diseases of game birds, animals and fishes. Financial 

 assistance and cooperation has been given to the State Board of Health 

 in the work of stream pollution studies and prevention, and other 

 cooperative work has been carried on with Stanford University in the 

 study of marine problems. 



Where other state or federal agencies have facilities and trained 

 personnel to carry on highl}^ specialized investigations, it has been the 

 policy to arrange for use of these facilities rather than to set up a 

 duplicate and less effective organization to attempt to accomplish the 

 same result. 



