NINETEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT 



OF THE 



STATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



To Hon. George C. Pardee, 



Governor of the State of California : 



Sir: In accordance with law, the State Board of Fish Connni.-sioners 

 submits for your consideration its Nineteenth Biennal Report, the same 

 being a record of its work and expenditures from September 1, 1904, to 

 September 1, 1906. 



We also submit for your consideration the recommendations which, 

 in our judgment, and based upon our experience in carrying on this 

 work, would tend to the betterment of existing conditions as they refer 

 to the fish and game interests of our State. 



Since the Eighteenth Biennial Report was issued, the personnel of 

 this Board has undergone one change. At a meeting held on March 23, 

 1905, Mr. John Bermingham, Jr., of Pinole, who had been appointed by 

 you as a member of the Fish Commission, presented his credentials and 

 was thereupon seated as a member of this Board. 



Regular meetings of the Board have been held during the first of 

 every month, and at such other times as the interests of the work 

 seemed to require. 



We are pleased to report that, in spite of the great disaster which 

 visited San Francisco and destroyed our offices in the Mills Building, 

 together with most of their contents, our Chief Deputy, Mr. Charles A. 

 Vogelsang, saved the minute book, containing the records of every 

 meeting, since June 3, 1898; also the expenditure book, showing the 

 amount of every claim drawn against the funds over which we have 

 control, since July 1, 1905. The fishermen's licenses for the current 

 year, duplicate bills, inventories of State property, deeds, leases, con- 

 tracts, and book of arrests were also saved. We regret, however, to 

 state that our library and long list of reports from other states, together 

 with a great deal of valuable data on fish cultural work in this State 



