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or calls for three or four kinds and consequently nearly seventy-five per 

 cent of the fish sold are of these four species. Depletion of these species 

 and high prices are the natural result of such concentration of con- 

 sumer demand. The lack of knowledge of the housewife of the great 

 number of varieties of food fisli and sea foods, and the many ways to 

 properly prepare them, has led us to compile our cookery book "Five 

 Hundred Ways to Prepare California Sea Foods. ' ' 



The recipes used in our fish cookery book were contributed by 

 leading chefs and cookery experts and were thoroughly tested before 

 including them in the book. The index contains all the varieties of 

 fish and sea foods taken in California. It indicates the most popular 

 ways of preparing and refers the reader to the page whereon the 

 recipe is found. It also gives the seasons of each variety and the months 

 in which they are in greatest abundance. 



Copies of this cookery book can be procured without charge by 

 writing to the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the Division of 

 Fish and Game, 450 McAllister Street, San Francisco. — A. A. Alstrom, 

 March 2, 1934. 



FEDERAL WILD-LIFE RESTORATION PROGRAM 



Momentous developments with reference to the Federal Govern- 

 ment's interest in alleviating unsatisfactory wild-life and game condi- 

 tions throughout the Nation transpired in Washington in January of 

 this year. Never, in the history of our country, has the Federal Gov- 

 ernment displayed such an interest in this problem and at no time 

 have official branches of the Government, conservation, farm and 

 sportsmen factions been in such unanimity of opinion as was recently 

 evidenced in Washington. 



On January 2, 1934, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace appointed 

 the so-called President's Committee on Wild-life Restoration consist- 

 ing of Thomas H. Beck, Wilton, Connecticut, chairman ; J. N. Darling, 

 Des Moines, Iowa, and Professor Aldo Leopold, Madison Wisconsin. 

 This committee, which was charged Avith the consideration of a national 

 wild-life restoration problem of the broadest scope, met continuously 

 from January 6 to February 8 when their initial report comprising 

 conclusions and recommendations was transmitted to the Secretary. 



This committee concluded that: "A national wild-life restoration 

 program is economically justifiable and innnediately practical by 

 utilizing submarginal and commercially unprofitable agricultural lands 

 now contributing so largely to the surplus of agricultural projects." 



Projects comprising approximately 5, 000. 000 acres Avore selected 

 by the committee and submitted in their report for consideration. 

 Nineteen projects embracing the restoration of migratory waterfowl 

 breeding grounds and totaling 198,000 acres were herein included for 

 the State of California. Foremost among these is tlie restoration for 

 migratory waterfowl breeding grounds ])urposes of Lower Klamath 

 Lake. In fact, so important does the committee consider this matter, 

 that the following quotation is made from the introduction to that 

 portion of their report relating to migratory waterfowl : 



"An ironic commentary on our neglect of waterfowl nesting 

 areas is had in the proclamation of President Theodore Roosevelt 



