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111 addition to work oil San Franci.sco liay it is intended to use tlie 

 "Steelhead" at Monterey and Fort Braj^jjj during the fishing seasons 

 at tliose plaees and to engage in experimental fishing to develop 

 methods of catching fish now little used. 



Patrol Launch "Albacore." 



For tile patrol of southern California waters we have the boat "Al- 

 bacore," built in 1918 and described in the last Biennial Report. She 

 is si.xty feet long, twelve foot l)caiii and has a draft of five feet. She 

 is equipped with a sixty-five horsepower Acme engine and has a speed 

 of eleven miles per hour. An ample cabin is provided with sleeping 

 neeommodations for six persons, a fully equipped galley, a lavatory and 

 lockers. She is built plainly on the model of a tuna fishing lioat and is 

 a good substantial seaworthy boat, well adapted to patrol and investiga- 

 tion work. "With a crew of three, captain^ engineer and deckhand, she 

 covers the coast from Santa Barbara to San Diego. 



The "Albacore" has been used a great deal in experimental "long 

 line" fishing for albacore and has assisted in the fisheries investigation 

 work. For more than a year, however, practically all of her time has 

 been occupied with patrol work. With constant demands made upon 

 lier by the patrol work and with long distances to cover she has been put 

 through a lot of hard work. We doubt if the log of any boat of its size 

 on the coast will show as much work done. 



Other Patrol Work. 

 lieside.s the fisheries patrol carried on l)y boat we employ a patrolman 



in the vicinity of San Pedro who works about the piers, fishing docks 

 ond part of the time on the patrol boat. As occasion has demanded 

 extra men have been secured from the Los Angeles County sheriff's 

 office. 



At San Diego we have a patrolman who devotes about all of his time 

 to the fisheries patrol work. At San Francisco one man gives this 

 branch of the w^ork all of his time. As already stated the three boats, 

 "Rainbow," "Barracuda" and "Shad," while doing some game patrol 



work are largely employed on fisheries work. Game deputies wherever 

 -stationed in commercial fishing localities devote part of their time to 

 fisheries work and during fishing seasons may give all their time under 



the direction of this department. In this way the fisheries patrol is well 

 cared for. 



SALMON INVESTIGATIONS. 



In the salmon investigations this department is cooperating with the 

 Department of Fishculture for each is equally concerned with the con- 

 servation of these fish. Investigations of California salmon which have 

 been mad(> in tlie past have in a large degree been superficial, but to 



