REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. ' 21 



[Under date of July 2, 1892.] 



I accompanied Deputy KopjDitz to Harbor View for the purpose of 

 collecting licenses from fishermen at that point. We had very poor 

 success, as many of them refused to pay, and dared us to make an 

 arrest. We arrested five men, and locked them up, with the charge of 

 fishing without a license. They gave bail to appear on the 5th, and on 

 paying their licenses they were discharged. 



Mr. Koppitz re^Dorts that since then he has collected from all the 

 fishermen at that place without trouble. 



[Under date of July 13, 1892.] 



Accompanied by Deputy Babcock we went down the bay and arrested 

 two Chinamen who were catching sturgeon with sturgeon lines, and 

 took them to Redwood City to await trial. Their cases come up at San 

 Mateo on the 22d. We have made almost weekly trips to the Chinese 

 shrimp-fishing stations during the season of 1891-92, and the constant 

 howl that we do not enforce the law as regards the Chinese, is done for 

 some other purpose than is apparent upon the surface. These camps 

 are regularly and systematically overhauled, and all that we can do 

 with the means at our hands is being done, to see that they do not 

 destroy the young of fish. The drying beds at all these camps are mostly 

 free of small fish. I do not believe that the law is violated to the 

 extent that is complained of. 



[Under date of August 29, 1892.] 



We took up a lot of sturgeon lines at Roe Island, Suisun Bay, and 

 ordered the Italians who run the camp to move away. We could not 

 arrest these men, as we could not catch them in the act of using the 

 lines. We have taken no less than four miles of line and twelve anchors 

 from these men during the year, so that their business cannot have 

 been very profitable to them. 



REPORT OF .JOHN P. BABCOCK. 



[Under date of July 13, 1891.] 



I went to Port Reyes on July 7th, as directed. I saw Mr. ; he 



repeated to me the story that he had told to Mr. , and gave me so 



good a description of the Swiss that he saw with the deer on July 1st, 

 that I had but a few hours' search before locating the man at Millerton. 



I took Mr. there to identify him, but he failed to do so, though 



he admitted the man answered the description to a nicety. I am fully 

 convinced that "the little sawed-off Swiss, with small, black eyes, and 

 a long, black-haired mustache so thin that you can see all of his upper 



lip," is the man at Millerton, and that did not want to identify 



him, for fear that the large Swiss element in the neighborhood would 

 resent his information and burn his valuable property. 



[Under date of August 17, 1891.J 



Mr. Storey, of Chip's Island cannery, told us that he would pay the 

 orders given on him by fishermen who had any money due them; 

 that the last spring run of salmon had been the poorest in his expe- 

 rience for years; that most of the fishermen quit in the spring in his 



