16 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION 



BUREAU OF PATROL AND LAW 

 ENFORCEMENT 



E. L. Macaulay was appointed Executive Officer of the Fish and 

 Game Commission on May 10, 1948, and the writer assumed the duties 

 of Chief of Patrol at that time. 



The total number of arrests, convictions and fines in the present 

 biennium have increased tremendously over that of the previous one. 

 Arrests totaled 11,331, or an average of more than 15 per day, for the 

 two-year period. Fines totaled $476,367, or an average of more than $42 

 per case. This represents nearly 100 percent increase over the previous 

 biennium. All fish and game enforcement agencies of the Country have 

 experienced similar increases in violations of the conservation laws. In 

 California, a part of this can be attributed to an unprecedented increase 

 in population (estimated for 1949 to be over 10,000,000), and from a 

 historical stHnd])()int, an aftermath of war. 



No one is naive enough to believe that there will ever be a time 

 when fish and game laws will be observed by the entire public without 

 rigid enforcement. It is axiomatic that the laws of the Legislature, and 

 the regulations of the commission are no stronger than their enforcement. 

 This feature of conservation calls for expensive equipment, and with the 

 advent of the five-day w^eek, increased personnel to accomplish results. 



The patrol areas of the State consist of the following : 



1. The coastal area : Del Norte County to and including Monterey 

 County ; headquarters, San Francisco. 



2. Northern California area : The Counties of Modoc, Lassen, Siski- 

 you, Shasta, Trinity and Tehama; headquarters. Redding. 



3. Sacramento area includes all the counties in the Sacramento 

 Valley, and Sierra Nevada Mountains from Tehama, Lassen, and Shasta 

 Counties, south to and including El Dorado and Sacramento Counties; 

 headquarters, Sacramento. 



4. The San Joaquin area includes counties in the San Joaquin 

 Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains, south of El Dorado and Sacra- 

 mento Counties to and including Kern County, but excluding Mono 

 County; head(|uarters, Fresno. 



5. The Southern California area includes San Luis Obispo, Santa 

 Barbara, A^entura, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, 

 San Bernardino, Inyo, and Mono Counties ; headquarters, Los Angeles. 



6. The lUMrine area consists of the entii'e coast line fi-om the Mexican 

 border to the Oregon line, and th(> commercial fisliing areas of the Sac- 

 ramento, and the San Joaquin Rivers; heathiuarters, San Francisco. 



Each of these areas is under the dii'ect supervision of an assistant 

 chief of piiti-ol, and is further broken down into patrol captain districts. 

 At the ])fes('nt lime there ai"e 16 caj^tains and a total of 170 wardens 

 and assistant wardens, as well as one warden-])il()t. Thirty of the assistant 

 wardens mentioned wrvo ])la('e(l on the pay loll on .luiie 1, 1948, as a 

 result of the five-day week ]'e(|ui)-ement. 



Two ol" the pi'csent patrol areas Avere created during the biennium 

 just concluded; the Northern California area, and the San Joaquin 



