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FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



One of the first acts of the newly formed Sardine Canners Associa- 

 tion was to request the Fish and Game Commission to order a closed 

 season on sardines, so as to prevent the opening of the 1928-29 season 

 before August 6th. While tliis was done as a conservation measure, 

 the main object of the request was to enable canners to dispose of their 

 carry-over stock before the opening of the new season. 



After the beginning of the 1928-29 season, the canners sought, in a 

 further effort to curtail the canned pack, to induce the Commission to 



Fig. 4 4. Unloading sardines at tlie Cali- 

 fornia Pack Plant, Terminal Island. 

 Photo by D. H. Fry, Jr., March 11, 

 1929. 



reduce the requirement of 15 cases from each ton of sardines received, 

 to a requirement of only 12 cases. They argued that by so doing the 

 canners would receive less fish and would pack a reduced amount of 

 sardines, for which they would ffet a better price. They pointed out 

 the fact that the law was indefinite as to what ' ' capacity ' ' is, and that 

 the Commission could consistently make the requirements 12 cases per 

 ton just as well as 15 cases. It was urged as a conservation measure. 

 It was called to the Commission's attention that canners were permit- 

 ted, under the law, to use fish oifal in their reduction plants and, as 

 the term "offal" was not defined in the law, the dictionarv meaning 



