REPORT OF STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



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provided, that the United States may at all times control and limit or diminish the 

 number of the seals resorting to said rocks, so as to protect the fisheries and fishing in- 

 dustries; and provided further, that whenever any of said rocks or the space occupied 

 by said rocks shall be required by the United States for the erection or maintenance of 

 any public work for any other purpose, then as to the rocks or space so required the 

 provisions of this Act shall terminate and the United States shall be reinvested with the 

 full title, control, and possession thereof. Said city and county shall signify its accept- 

 ance of this trust, and thereupon the Commissioner of the General Land Office shall file 

 in his office a plat showing the locus of said Seal Hocks, and said plat shall be the evi- 

 dence of the extent and position of the premises hereby granted. 



Sec. 2. That all Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby declared 

 inapplicable to the premises hereby granted. 



The laws for the protection of the salmon fishery should not be 

 changed. 



The shad fisheries continue to be influenced by the demand for 

 SHAD, the fish. The fishermen are limited by the marketmen to that 



amount which is daily consumed, this being deemed the only 



ERRATA. 



Page 11— Number pounds Shad for March, 1896, should be 14,.375; for April 

 should be 75,625 ; and total for six months should be 234,612. 



Page 12— Number pounds Carp for March, 1896, should be 8,659, and total for 

 six months should be 52,495. 



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is needed to protect them. This is equally true of the striped bass. The 

 following table of the number of pounds of shad received in the San 

 Francisco market gives but a poor idea of the abundance of these fish: 



