j5 biennial report of the 



annually by the millions. Today it is claimed there is not 

 a single specimen of the wild pigeon excepting three or four 

 in captivity. 



GAME SHOULD NOT BE EXHIBITED IN SHOPS. 

 It is the custom of many city hunters to bring in their 

 large game whole and send elk and deer to the butcher shops 

 to be skinned and cut up. Of course this is a right which 

 all hunters have, if they do not know how to skin and divide 

 the game they kill, but the action is often seized on by the 

 meat dealers as an excuse for exhibiting whole game animals 

 in front of their places of business — thus conveying to the 

 passer-by and strangers the idea that game meat is for sale, 

 resulting in many baseless reports to this department of 

 violations of the law. I would recommend the passage of 

 an act forbidding the display of game animals on the open 

 market. 



RECDMMENDATIO'NS for AMENDMENTS OF FISH- 

 ING LAWS. 



There is a provision concerning fishing which is the law 

 in many states and which I believe to be a wise provisions — 

 one which should be enacted as a part of our statutes. Just 

 prior to the spawning season, all our game fish work up stream 

 and thousands, aye in some instances millions, of fish congre- 

 gate at the foot of dams. Where, as in Montana, fishing is 

 permitted close to dams the hungry trout, grayling or whitefish 

 fall easy prey to the angler. In Oregon, for instance, no fishing 

 is permitted within three hundred feet below a dam. I believe 

 this provision should be enacted as a part of our fishing laws. 

 I also believe that the custom of fishing in the winter through 

 ice should be prohibited as by this practice our largest trout 

 are destroyed without affording the pleasure that by right 

 belongs to the sportsman who lands one of these splendid 

 specimen after a hard fight in open water. On account of 

 the needless waste of our game fish by some campers, I would 

 recommend a limit of twenty-five pounds of trout per day 

 to the fisherman, with a total of fifty pounds to be the limit 

 in possession of a fisherman at any one time and all trout 

 caught under six inches to be returned to the w^ter. 



Then there are two other evils which destroy more fish 

 yearly than all the fishermen in the state. I refer to cyanide 

 of potassium and open irrigating ditches. Of course the 



