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of Salinas fined T. Kohaiihoni, a second offender, $150 for the possession 

 of illegal Pismo clams : May 17, 1923, Judge Evans of Loleto fined Fred 

 Simmons $150 for killing a deer during the closed season; July 30, 



1923, Judge Griffin fined Joe Trupiano $200 for possession of illegal 

 abalones ; August 14, 1923, Judge Boyd of Plantation fined R. F. Webb 

 and D. S. Cloughn $100 each for killing a fawn; September 2, 1923, 

 Judge Snow of Napa fined Manuel Lopez and Tony Alvorez $100 each 

 for killing a fawn ; October 21, 1923, Judge Johnson of Daly City fined 

 four Italians $450 for taking 133 song birds in an Italian bird net; 

 April 25, 1924, Judge Jacks of San Francisco fined Paladini Fish 

 Company $250 for having small striped bass in possession ; May 25, 



1924, Judge McGuinness of Dunsmuir fined the same fish company 

 $500 for shipping small bass to Portland ; June 19, 1924, Judge Rudolph 

 of Novato fined John Albert! $300 for killing illegal deer. 



Respectfully submitted. 



J. S. Hunter, 



In charge. 



LOS ANGELES DISTRICT REPORT. 



Tlu Honorahle Board of Fish and Game Commissioners 

 of the State of California. 



Gentlemen: Geographically comprising but the lower third of 

 California, this southern division, during the biennial period ending 

 June 30, 1924, has had to deal with the most spectacular population 

 growth ever experienced anywhere over an equal area, bringing upon 

 us an even greater than proportional gain in outdoor sporting 

 enthusiasm. 



Inevitably, this enormously has increased our responsibilities, 

 far beyond capacity of the dollar-unit of license income adequately to 

 finance meeting such demands by the general expansion in every 

 department thereby indicated as necessary. 



That these primary outdoor-attraction assets have assumed a new 

 and greater importance in their ever more valuable relation to the 

 general public welfare, scarcely needs suggestion excepting to the ever- 

 shrinking minority which sees in fish and game pursuit only a pastime 

 of our large leisure classes, and with more wilful perversity, persists 

 in ignoring the enormous material, physical and psychological worth 

 of wild-life to the entire commonwealth of California. 



Our guiding principle during these troublous times steadfastly has 

 remained the greatest general good, not only to the sporting classes 

 most directly interested in conserving fish and game attraction-assets 

 through their loyal and liberal support of our work with their hunting 

 and angling licenses, but also to the non-sporting public. Through 

 upkeep of these outdoor resources, so alluring to sportsmen of other 

 older Eastern states where conservation has been less forehanded than 

 here, our wild-life has called countless thousands of well-to-do men this 

 side the Sierras to invest themselves, their families and their lifetime 

 accumulations in the material up-building of this state. Yet, the 

 nonsporting citizenry of California in this matter still continues 

 enjoying the unique role of better than incidental beneficiary without 



