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PISII AND GAME COMMISSION 



law water conditions or by abnormally high water temperature. The 

 fish so rescued have been partly returned to adjacent waters, and 

 partly distributed to other sections of the state where the greatest good 

 could be accomplished. During the past two years nearly 7,000,000 fish 

 have been rescued and distributed. 



In order to have available a group of trained men, with proper equip- 

 ment, all seining permits to commercial fishermen for the removal of 

 nongame fish are issued with the provision that the permittee will make 



Fig. 6. Conveying striped bass to planting grounds, Salton Sea, The boat is 

 equipped with airplane motor, propeller and aerial rudder so as to speed over 

 the shallow flats. Photo courtesy of Robert Hays, October, 1929. 



available both his equipment and employees at any time when rescue 

 work is necessary. 



To this bureau, and the Bureau of Fish Culture, goes the credit for 

 the successful gathering and transplanting of two carloads of striped 

 bass from the great valleys to the Salton sea. Recalling the remarkable 

 development and spread of these fishes from the two small plantings 

 originally made in the San Francisco Bay region, and with the knowl- 

 edge that the water and food conditions of Salton sea are favorable to 

 these fish, it is hoped that this trial will result in the development of an 

 important supply of game and food fish in the Salton sea. 



GAME REFUGES 



In order to more effectively handle the large areas which have been 

 set aside in the state for game refuges, and to administer those refuges 

 which are purchased from funds set aside by legislative act from the 

 sale of hunting licenses, a Bureau of Game Refuges was created. To this 

 bureau has also been assigned the work of predatory animal control. 



Over two and one-half million acres have been set aside by legislative 

 act, one 3000-acre refuge in the San Joaquin Valley for migratory 

 waterfowl has been purchased, and other similar areas are being con- 

 sidered in order that there may ultimately be a chain of refuges extend- 

 ing from the northern to the southern part of the state, for those birds 

 which are so obviously in need of assistance during this time of an 

 increasing number of hunters, and decreasing breeding and feeding 

 grounds. 



