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PISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



Figure 20. 63-foot Fish and Game patrol boat BLUEFIN. The commission operates 

 two of these vessels in Southern California waters. Equipped witli two 630-h.D. Hall 

 Scott Defender engines, radar, radio and full marine equipment. Photograph hy Vernon 



M. Haden. San Pedro. 



another vessel of this type to cover San Francisco Bay and ocean waters 

 adjacent as far south as Monterey. The next fiscal year's budget provides 

 for this purchase. 



Considerable progress is being made with car and boat radio com- 

 munications for the warden service. A number of areas in the State 

 which in the past have not had this type of communications are operating 

 satisfactorily with either county sheriff's installations or state facilities. 

 In many instances the counties furnish the equipment. 



We had hoped to report that arrests and convictions for the biennium 

 would have decreased over the previous period, but this is not the case. 



Total arrests for the biennium were 12,947, an increase of 1,616 

 over the previous like period. The average fine was over $43, a slight 

 increase over the last biennium. A survey of arrests and fines throughout 

 the Nation indicates the average fine to be $21 for fish and game law 

 violations. The commission and the bureau at this time wish to thank 

 the California courts for their cooperation in assessing penalties more 

 than twice the general average for the Nation. 



It will be noted that the arrests, fines and forfeitures were con- 

 siderably higher during the first fiscal year than in the second fiscal year 

 of this report; however, the jail sentences were more than two and 

 one-half times greater in the second fiscal year than in the first. 



A recapitulation of arrests, fines and seizures will be found in 

 Appendix E. 



