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REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



The resources and expenditures of this Commission have been as 



follows: 



Forty-sixth Fiscal Year. 



Resources. 



Disburse- 

 ments. 



•f 7,500 00 



Support and Maintenance of State Hatcheries — 



Appropriation 



Restoration and Preservation of Fish — 



Balance on hand 150 00 



Appropriation i 10,000 00 



Fish Commission Fund — 



Balance on hand j 1,379 24 



Receipts from licenses, fines, etc. _ 5,225 92 



Amount expended ! . 



Balance on hand 



Totals ..I 124,255 16 



$7,500 00 

 10,150 00 



4,737 72 

 1,867 44 



$24,255 16 



Forty-seventh Fiscal Year. 



Support and Maintenance of State Hatcheries- 

 Appropriation $7,500 00 



Restoration and Preservation of Fish and Game — 

 Appropriation 10,000 00 



Fish Commission Fund — 



Balance on hand 1,867 44 



Receipts from licenses, etc 1 \ 5,671 90 



Amount expended.. ! 



Balance on hand c 



Totals $25,039 34 



$7,500 00 

 10,000 00 



5,874 89 

 1,664 45 



$25,039 34 



In the Appendix will be found a statement of all the bills passed by 

 this Board and allowed by the Board of Examiners. This statement 

 shows to whom and for what purpose the money was paid. Duplicates 

 of all bills are on file in this office giving in detail the uses to which our 

 funds have been put. 



Having thus given a resume of the work under our supervision, we 

 invite your attention to the details which follow, as well as to many 

 subjects and incidents connected with our fisheries, and to the other 

 matters with which we have had to deal. 



We are pleased to report that the increase in the fishery 

 industry, shown in the Thirteenth Biennial Report of the 

 California Fish Commission, has continued during the last 

 two years, although the fisherfolk have suffered in some 

 measure, owing to the hard times which have affected every industry. 



We regret our inability to present the actual increase. Our resources 

 do not admit of a sufficiently thorough investigation of all its branches 

 to enable us to make complete statistics. The U. S. Commission of 

 Fish and Fisheries have not taken a complete census since 1892, but 

 are now completing one for the year 1895. The results of the cen- 

 sus of 1892 were embodied in the last report of the California Fish 

 Commission. 



COMMERCIAL 

 FISHERIES. 



