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co-operation of all the people of this State in the great work which 

 is before it. 



This Commission will be for the people, and it wants their 

 expression as to the laws most suitable for their districts. In 

 other words, it wants the people of the great State of California 

 to say to the Commission, 'We want this and we want that,' and 

 not for the Commission to say, ' We will give you this and we will 

 give you that.' " 

 Such recommendations as may be found in this report are to be 

 considered as representing the personal views of the specialists sub- 

 mitting them. The Board does not necessarily endorse any of them. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



The Board desires to express its sense of deep obligation to the State 

 <^.ommissions and departments, and to the universities, scientific insti- 

 tutions and individual scientists in the State and country, whose 

 hearty support during the past two years has made possible the prose- 

 cution of many technical investigations. Particularly is the Board 

 indebted to the University of California, the University of Southern 

 California and to Leland Stanford Junior University, for not only 

 support, but for active effort and the direction of difficult studies. 



We wish also to thank, personally and officially, the many railroad 

 and other transportation officials in the State, through whose unfailing 

 courtesy the transportation of fish and attendants and special em- 

 ployees, has been possible. Without the free and reduced rate trans- 

 portation of fish and fish eggs and game, that has been provided by 

 the Southern Pacific, the Western Pacific, the Sierra, the Northwestern 

 Pacific, the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation, the Nevada- 

 California and Oregon and other railway companies and by the Pacific 

 Coast Steamship Company and the Wells Fargo and Globe Express 

 Companies, the distribution made by the Board would have been but 

 a part of the gratifying total reported. 



In concluding this report we desire to state that during the year 

 that has just past every possible encouragement and assistance has 

 been given by the public. Any success that may have crowned our 

 undertakings must be credited to this favorable and growing senti- 

 ment. 



Respectfully submitted. 



F. M. NEWBERT, President, 

 M. J. CONNELL, 

 CARL WESTERFELD, 



Board of Fish and Game Commissioners. 



