CONTENTS 



Page 



LETTER OP TRANSMITTAL 5 



IN MEMORIAM 7 



FRONTISPIECE 8 



REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER 9 



Finance and Accounts 11 



Patrol 11 



Volunteer Deputies 13 



Fish Planting 13 



Fish Culture 14 



Hydraul ics : 16 



Research IV 



Public Relations IS 



Education -- IS 



Game Farm 18 



Game Refuges 20 



Commercial Fisheries 22 



Legal Bureau 25 



The Future : 26 



Bureau Reports — 



Bureau of Finance and Accounts H. R. Dunbar 27 



Bureau of Patrol K. P. Allred 30 



Volunteer Deputies Walter Welch 32 



Fish Planting O. P. Brownlow 30 



Bureau of Fisli Culture W. II. Shebley 36 



Bureau of Hydraulics John Spencer 68 



Bureau of Research R. E. Ludlum 74 



Bureau of Public Relations : Frank H. Vore 79 



Bureau of Education H. C. Bryant 82 



Bureau of Game Farms August Bade .89 



Game Status and Game Protection J. S. Hunter 97 



Bureau of Commercial Fisheries N. B. Scofield 103 



California State Fisheries Laboratory W. L. Scofield 118 



Legal Department Euc/ene D. Bennett 123 



Appendix — 



Financial Statement 128 



License Sales 131 



Arrests and Convictions 136 



Report of Operations of Licensed Game Breeders '. 140 



Sumary of Fish Distribution 140 



Fish Distribution by Counties and Hatcheries 142 



Map Showing Pheasant Planting 149 



Deer Killed by Counties 150 



Lion Bounties 151 



Summary of Fur-Bearing Mammals 152 



Canned, Cured and Manufactured Fishery Products, 1926 153 



Fresh Fishery Products, 1926 155 



Report on Sardine Canneries, 1926-27 : 159 



Canned, Cured and Manufactured Fishery Products, 1927 163 



Fresh Fishery Products, 1927 164 



Report of Sardine Canneries, 1927-28 168 



