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REPORT OF ^TATE BOARD OF FISH COMMISSIONERS. 



In the larger waters, near the mouths of the Sacramento and San 

 Joaquin rivers, the salmon fishermen inform us that, in their opinion, 

 in two or three years they will be as plentiful as the carp, which, on the 



other hand, are not nearly so numerous as they were five years ago. 

 This information seems hardly credible, but it indicates the remarkable 

 development of bass. In Cache and Miner sloughs, in Solano County, 



