170 DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME 



Also reporting to the conservation education officer will be a training officer position 

 immediately responsible for the department's employee training program, which should 

 be broadened and deepened. While the training officer will not directly instruct in 

 more than general phases of the training program, he will organize it and have many 

 other training responsibilities. He will help draft a long-term training program, work 

 out its details and timing, select suitable experts as part-time teachers, help such 

 teachers prepare their lectures, assist in discovering and preparing written study ma- 

 terials, schedule training sessions, arrange for meeting places and obtain secretarial 

 coverage of such sessions. In summary, he will be the planner, organizer, expediter — 

 the sparkplug — of the department's training program. The presently budgeted position 

 of Assistant Chief, Fish and Game Patrol, which has been performing this function 

 for the department should be used in conjunction with this activity. 



Four Chief Staff Officers: This report proposes that four present bureau chief posi- 

 tions, with combined line and staff responsibilities, be changed to staff status. It is sug- 

 gested that the titles of these positions be changed, subject to State Personnel Board 

 approval : 



Present Proposed 



Chief, Bureau of Marine Fisheries Chief Staff Officer, 



Marine Fisheries Branch 



Chief, Bureau of Inland Fisheries Chief Staff Officer, 



Inland Fisheries Branch 



Chief, Bureau of Game Conservation Chief Staff Officer, 



Game Management Branch 



Chief, Bureau of Patrol and Law Chief Staff Officer, 



Enforcement Wildlife Protection Branch 



The chief staff officers will require staff assistants, the number needed depending upon 

 the size of the particular job to be done. The bureau chiefs currently have technical 

 assistants located at headquarters. Some of these subordinate positions will continue 

 to be required at headquarters, but it is believed that several may be transferred to the 

 regions for direct work there, in view of the transfer of responsibility for line operations 

 to the regions. Through such transfers and other personal adjustments the number of 

 new positions required to put the recommended plan into operation can be kept to a 

 minimum. 



Of the four present bureau chiefs, the least change in actual working relations result- 

 ing from change to the staff status will occur for the Chief of Marine Fisheries. This 

 is because the function of marine fisheries has been predominantly research, statistical, 

 and advisory in nature, and will continue on that basis. 



The marine fisheries organizational branch will operate its programs directly rather 

 than through the regions. While the activities of the three other present bureaus can 

 be divided advantageously between the central (staff) office and the regional (line) 

 offices, this cannot be done effectively for the marine fisheries branch. This is because 

 its work is predominantly research, fact-finding, and statistical in nature — staff work 

 calling for centralized administration. Moreover, its operations are along the entire 

 coast, from Crescent City to San Diego, rather than on land. Therefore, its operations 

 should remain controlled or directly operated by headquarters. 



However, there is one important exception. Present marine fisheries activities and 

 personnel dealing with stream improvement and fish screens and ladders on inland 

 streams (notably of the central valley) should be transferred to the appropriate regions 

 involved. 



On the other hand responsibility for handling such activities as maintenance of the 

 marine fisheries installations at Terminal Island and at Monterey may advantageously 

 be left with the branch, rather than be transferred to the regions. These supporting 

 activities represent such a small part of its total work and yet can have such a direct 

 effect upon the success of its work that it will prove advantageous to have the branch 

 continue handling them, at least for some time to come. 



Regional Organisation Structure: A new position of regional fish and game manager 

 will be in complete charge of operations and personnel in each region. 



The regional managers will play a most important role in the new department. Much 

 of the department's success ■will depend upon their capacity and performance. Their 

 task will be to weld separately operating fish and game programs — wildlife protection, 

 game conservation, and fish conservation, and parts of these programs — into one 



