SEP 51935 



California Fish 



'CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE THROUGH IEDU 



Volume 20 SACRAMENTO, JANUARY, 193^"'—^'' ~^/ No. 1 



:, 193)—-^ 



CONTENTS 



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 A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF MISSION BAY STATE PARK 



Donald H. Fry, Jr., d Richard S. Croker 1 



TAGGING OF STRIPED BASS G. H. Clark 14 



OCTOPI OP CALIFORNIA J. B. PMlUiis 20 



PREDATORY ANIMAL STUDIES D. D. McLean 30 



HISTORY OF THE YOSEMITE ELK HERD James Moffltt 37 



MULE DEER STUDY PROGRAM James Moffltt 52 



EDITORIALS AND NOTES 67 



REPORTS — 



Statement of Income 95 



Statement of Expenditures 96 



Violations of Fish and Game Laws 98 



Fresh Fishery Products 100 



A PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF MISSION BAY 



STATE PARK* 



By Donald H. Fey, Jr., and Richard S. Croker 



INTRODUCTION 



After Mission Bay was declared a State park and a wild life 

 sanctuary, it was desired to learn how the wild life of the bay could 

 be maintained and how sport fishing could be improved. At the request 

 of Assemblyman George B. Bowers of San Diego, two members of the 

 Staff of the California State Fisheries Laboratory (Division of Fish 

 and Game) were sent to the area to make a survey, to report upon the 

 existing conditions, and to suggest methods by which those in charge 

 could improve them. Conditions ])roved to be far better than might 

 have been expected in an area so close to a city the size of San Diego. 



* Contribution No. 134 from the California State Fisheries Laboratory. Novem- 

 ber 28, 1933. 



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