REPORT OF BOARD OF PISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 53 



It should be explained that an appropriation of $20,000.00 yearly 

 for the support and maintenance of hatcheries, which was available 

 up to June 30, 1910, has not been received since that time. In con- 

 sequence of this loss, the fish cultural work of the Board has been 

 seriously interfered with and will be more greatly impeded and injured 

 within the next two years if the appropriation is not restored and in 

 increased amount. 



As the foregoing statement shows, the Board's receipts from all 

 direct fishery sources — that is, from the sale of commercial fishing 

 licenses and fines for the violation of fish laws — amounts to only 

 $60,000.00 in round numbers for the biennial term. This amount is 

 entirely insufficient to maintain the fish work of the State on a proper 

 plane and can not properly be increased by diversions from the rev- 

 enues derived from game and hunting sources. 



According to Dr. T. S. Palmer, assistant chief of the U. S. Biological 

 Survey, a Calif ornian and recognized by competent authorities as 

 being one of the foremost game conservationists of the world, this 

 State presents a problem that is not faced by the fish and game com- 

 missions of any other state. The problem is unusual and great, not 

 merely because of the great area and length of the State, with 

 attendant geographical and climatic variations, but because of the 

 numbers of species and extensive ranges of some of the most important 

 members. 



