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DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME 



The board continued its practice of approving only 

 projects which did not burden the Department of Fish 

 and Game with additional operating expenses. The 

 angling access program and the warmwater fish pro- 

 gram are the two major programs in this category. 



During the biennium 15 new projects, involving a 

 total expenditure of f598,000 were approved. Three 

 were hatchery and stocking projects, seven warm- 

 water and other fish projects, three fell in the fish 

 screen and ladder category and the others were in- 

 cluded in the inland access program. 



In addition, the board allocated $25,000 for project 

 evaluations, surveys, engineering studies and property 

 appraisals. 



Additional allocations, totaling f 1,503,000 were made 

 to 19 old projects. Hatchery and stocking projects 

 led the list with six, followed by five flow maintenance 

 and stream improvement jobs, four in the category 

 of warmwater and other fish, three waterfow 1 projects 

 and one in the coastal angling access program. 



Twelve projects were completed during the bien- 

 nium and three were canceled and funds recovered. 



CHANGES OF BOARD MEMBERSHIP 



The Joint Legislative Advisory Committee was 

 composed of Senators Charles Brown, Ben Hulse and 

 Ed. C. Johnson, and Assemblymen Frank P. Belotti, 

 Thomas M. Erwin and Lloyd W. Lowrey. Depart- 

 ment of Finance Director John M. Pierce and De- 

 partment of Fish and Game Director Seth Gordon 

 continued to serve on the board. Harley Knox replaced 

 William J. Silva as chairman during the biennium. 



E. E. Horn continued as the board's coordinator. 

 Because of the increased workload, the board author- 

 ized and the State Personnel Board established the 

 position of assistant coordinator. 



ANGLING ACCESS 



The Wildlife Conservation Board authorized the 

 hiring of a special consultant to make a field survey 

 of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and the 

 Delta area and to report on the need for angling 

 access along with a series of suggested access sites. 

 This survey was in progress as the biennium ended. 



Two access sites were purchased from the U. S. 

 Bureau of Reclamation. One was a two-acre parcel 

 located along the Sacramento River near Redding. The 

 other consisted of two acres, five miles east of Vina 

 on Deer Creek in Tehama County. 



As the biennium closed, a number of angling access 

 sites along the Sacramento, Feather and San Joaquin 

 Rivers in the Delta area and along the ocean were 

 being planned for development. 



This program was deferred until the major hatchery 

 and waterfowl projects could be completed. It consists 

 largely of constructing fishing access facilities at reser- 

 voirs and creating new impoundments where seasonal 

 runoff can be secured. Certain facilities were also nec- 

 essary to safeguard the public health where municipal 



water supplies were involved. Operation and mainte- 

 nance of these projects is planned almost exclusively 

 by counties or cities. 



OTHER FISH PROJECTS 



On the following projects the board authorized, in 

 addition to land acquisition, such facilities as access 

 roads, parking areas, fishing docks, launching ramps, 

 sanitary facilities and fencing: 



San Diego City Reservoirs-San Diego County; 



Whittier-Narrows— Los Angeles County; 



Santa Margarita Lake-San Luis Obispo County; 



Inland Lake— San Bernardino County; 



Finnon Reservoir— EJ Dorado County. 



Four projects in this category received additional 

 allocations to complete the development. Construc- 

 tion was completed on Ramer Lake, Imperial County, 

 and was continued on Lindo Lake, San Diego County, 

 and .Avocado Lake, Fresno County. The Salton Sea 

 project, a program to establish a fishery in this 225,- 

 000-acre body in Imperial County, was continued with 

 encouraging results. 



The Los Serranos Warmwater Fisheries Manage- 

 ment Station at the Serranos Game Farm near 

 Chino and the Plaskett Meadows Public Fishing Area 

 in Glenn County were approved and construction 

 started. 



The Dallas Warner warmwater fishing project re- 

 ceived no new allocations but work was completed 

 during this period. 



Stream Flow Maintenance 



The stream improvement program in Southern Cali- 

 fornia was continued. This allocation was made after 

 a survey revealed these small impoundments provide 

 exceptional fishing. 



Allocations were made to continue the highly suc- 

 cessful stream flow maintenance program in El Dorado 

 and Alpine Counties within the El Dorado National 

 Forest. A similar program carried on within the Tahoe 

 National Forest in Nevada, Placer and El Dorado 

 Counties likewise received an additional allocation. 



The stream flow maintenance program was con- 

 tinued in the Emigrant Basin area in the Stanislaus 

 National Forest and in the Granite Creek Basin of the 

 Sierra National Forest through additional fund alloca- 

 tions. 



During this biennium four projects were completed. 

 They were the Dry Lake Level Maintenance, Twin 

 Lakes Level /Maintenance, Hume Lake Dam Level 

 /Maintenance and the San Diego Flow Maintenance 

 Projects. 



Although the stream flow maintenance and im- 

 provement program met with considerable success, it 

 was becoming increasingly difficult in some areas to 

 locate adequate and economically feasible small dam 



sites. 



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