CONTENTS. 



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 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL 7 



ACCOMPLLSIIMENTS IN BRIEF 8 



TWENTY-EIGHTH BIENNIAL REPORT 9 



Introduction 9 



Personnel 9 



Finances 9 



Value of Fish and Game Resources 10 



Law Enforcement 11 



Fish Culture 1^^ 



Commercial Fisheries 13 



State FLsheries Laboratory 14 



Education and Publicity 15 



State Fair Exhibit 10 



Mountain Lion Control 17 



Fish and Game Protective Associations 17 



Game Conditions 20 



Fish Conditions 20 



Problems - 22 



Acknowledgment 24 



DEPARTMENTAL AND DISTRICT REPORTS— 



Department of Fish Culture W. H. Shelley 2o 



Department of Commercial Fisheries IS!. B. Seofield 48 



State Fisheries Laboratory W. F. Thompson 56 



Department of Education. Publicity and Research H. C. Bryant 71 



Sacramento District Office Geo. Neale 77 



San Francisco District Office J. S. Htinter 79 



Los Angeles District Office E. L. Hedderly 82 



APPENDIX— 



Fish Distribution by Counties 87 



License Sales 94 



Violations of the Fish and Game Laws 98 



Seizures of Fish, Game and Illegally Used Fishing Apparatus 100 



California Fishery Products 101 



Nativity of Licensed Commercial Fishermen 108 



Lion Bounties 110 



Financial Statement 111 



