GO FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



by printing across the face of the license the word "Angling" or 

 "Hunting" together with the year. 



During the 1935 session of the state legislature, a law was passed 

 providing that a license would be required by the owner of any 

 vessel, who for profit, transported i^ersons to any area for the ]mr- 

 pose of fishing. The fee for this license is $1. As of June 30, 1936, 

 210 ])o;it ojierator ]iermits were issued. 



The ai)|)lication of section 421 of the Fish and Game Code, regard- 

 ing the re(iuirement of an angling license to angle for game fish in 

 the ocean has increased the angling license sales for the period end- 

 ing June 30, 1936, of the current series, by approximately $50,000. 



The 1935 session of the legislature passed another law requir- 

 ing that in addition to the payment of the privilege tax, a tax of 

 one-half cent be paid on each pound of salmon received, based on 

 the weight in the round. For the period ending June 30, 1936, the 

 sum of $1,998.78 has been paid. 



The law provides that licenses sliall be issued free of charge 

 as follows: Hunting and angling licenses to Veterans of the Civil 

 War and angling licenses to indigent Indians, Avho have not been 

 previoiisly convicted for a violation of the fish and game laws. 

 During the angling season of 1935 and the hunting season of 1935-36, 

 ninrtccn angling and sev(Mi limiting licenses were issued to Veterans 

 (if tlic Civil War. For the six month's period ending June 30, 1936, 

 one hundred seventy-six free angling licenses were issued to Indians. 



In the distribution of the 1935-36 series of hunting licenses a new 

 form of application Avas adopted in Avhich the cooperation of the 

 sportsmen is asked in giving certain information as to the number 

 of each species of game taken in the previous season and the county 

 in which they were taken. The results obtained were so satisfying 

 1lia1 the plan has been adopted with the issuance of the angling 

 licenses also. 



At the present time, licenses are distributed throughout the 

 St;iic to agencies by three methods: \i/.. lo county clerks, who redis- 

 trihiitc them to agencies in their own counties; to agents who pay 

 cash in advance; and to agents, who first have been placed under 

 bond, on a credit basis. It is believed that better distribution, a 

 more prompt accounting of the license sales and a better control 

 of lhe agencies, could be had if the distribution were centered in one 

 dii-cct method. It is our recommendation that the Commission 

 consider having the law, in so far as it a])plies to license distribu- 

 tion, ameiuled at the next session of the legislature to provide for 

 one method of direct distribution to agencies by the Division offices. 



In the appendix, statements may be found, showing the sales of 

 the different kinds of licenses for the years 1934 and 1935. 



