12 P'ISII AXI) r.AMi: COMMISSION 



REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER TO THE BOARD OF 

 FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS 



Your Executive Officer has endeavored during the bieunium to 

 ]jerfect the organization and financial structure of the Division in 

 accordance with your instructions to the end that the program of fish 

 and game management outlined by you during the thirty-fourth bien- 

 nium could be made effective and produce the most desirable results. 

 The reports of the several bureaus of the Division cover in detail the 

 management of that portion of the fish and game with which each was 

 charged. I will not summarize these in my report as was the custom in 

 the past, but rather devote my report to a number of specific matters 

 which you charged me with perfecting, none of these being new as far 

 as this biennium was concerned but all being matters designed to carry 

 out more effectively the general program of fish and game management. 



During the biennium, your Executive Officer has made several 

 trips out of the State. The first one was to Grand Rapids, Michigan, 

 in 1936 for the purpose of attending the annual meeting of the Inter- 

 national Association of Pish and Game Commissioners and the American 

 Fisheries Society. No trip was necessary to meet with the Western 

 Association of Game and Fish Commissioners as this organization met 

 in San Francisco, California, during this year. A trip was made dur- 

 ing the year 1937 to attend the meeting of the Western Association of 

 State Game and Fish Commissioners at Denver, Colorado, and proceed- 

 ing from there to Mexico City to attend the meeting of the International 

 Association of Fish and Game Commissioners and the American Fisher- 

 ies Society. During 1938 your Executive Officer made one trip to 

 Washington, D.C., at the request of the Secretary of State for the pur- 

 ])Ose of discussing with them the necessit}' and advisability of a fisheries 

 treaty with the Republic of Mexico. During the summer of 1938 your 

 Executive Officer attended a meeting of the International Association 

 of Fish and Game Commissioners at Asheville, North Carolina. In 

 the spring of 1938 your Executive Officer traveled to Portland, Oregon, 

 where he met with the Chief of the United States Bureau of Biological 

 Survey to discuss the future expenditures under the so-called Pittmau- 

 Robertson Act, known specifically as "An act to provide that the 

 United States shall aid the states in wildlife-restoration pro.jects, and 

 for other purposes." 



The 1937 session of the California Legislature increased the number 

 of members of the Board of Fish and Game Commissioners from three 

 men to five. At the opening of the biennium and before the enactment 

 of this statute, tJae Fish and Game Commission was composed of Dr. 

 E. C. Moore, President ; A. T. Jergiiis, Commissioner, and I. Zellerbaeh, 

 Commissioner. Toward the latter part of the biennium, Mr. Jergins 

 resigned and the Governor of California appointed Mr. Raymond Grey, 

 of Taft, Mr. Newton G. Bootli of Harljin Springs and Mr. E. L. 

 McKenzie, of Red Bluff, to fill the vacancv created h\ ]\Tr. Jergins' 



