I '2 REPORT OP STATE BOARD OF PISH COMMISSIONERS. 



taxpayer of this State who has visited any one of our hatcheries will 

 heartily approve of this recommendation, also every individual who 

 is in any way connected with the fishery interests of this State, whether 

 it be the men who delight in angling in the mountain streams, or those 

 who are engaged in the commercial fisheries — all would be beneficiaries 

 from whatever improvement is made in our hatchery department. 



We would also recommend that, in accordance with the practice of 

 such states as New York, Minnesota, Colorado, Washington, Idaho, 

 Maine, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and New Jersey, the same right be 

 granted to our deputies and assistants to make search, without war- 

 rants, of any hunting outfit or place of business where game is handled. 

 In many cases it is impossible to secure the evidence without having 

 authority to act on the instant. Many justices of the peace and police 

 judges hesitate about issuing search warrants, fearing it might interfere 

 with their chances at election time. In the meantime, the offender dis- 

 poses of the illegal game. In some of the states authority has been 

 given to the game wardens to seize fish and game improperly shipped, 

 and to sell it. 



We would respectfully recommend that a law be enacted that will 

 prohibit the use of any live blinds. 



We would also recommend that a close season be declared for the 

 taking or killing of grouse, for a period of three years. 



We would recommend the abolishment of the law of protecting all 

 fish-eating birds except sea gulls, and the blue and white crane or 

 heron. 



We would recommend the following modifications of the existing 

 game laws: 



Amend section 626a, relating to doves, making the open season from 

 July 15th to October 15th. 



Amend and modify section 626a, relating to tree squirrels, by grant- 

 ing an open season for their killing between September 1st and January 

 1st; placing a bag limit of six for the season, but prohibiting sale at 

 any time. 



Amend section 626; so as to prohibit the use of hounds at any time to 

 run, track, or trail any deer. 



Amend section 637a by adding the word "robin" after "meadowlark." 



With reference to the bag limit on ducks, we recommended two 

 years ago a reduction from fifty to twenty-five. The recommendation 

 failed of passage. It was our intention to renew this recommendation, 

 but at a large meeting composed of representative sportsmen from differ- 

 ent sections of the State, as well as representatives selected by the boards 

 of supervisors from many of the counties, after an earnest discussion of 

 this question in all its phases, it was agreed to recommend a bag limit 



