California Fish and Game 



" CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE THROUGH EDUCATION " 



Volume 8 SACRAMENTO, APRIL, 1922 Number 2 



CONTENTS. 



Page 

 A HISTORY OF FISHCULTURAL OPERATIONS IN CALIFORNIA 



W. H. Shehley G2 



FISHCULTURAL DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL Harold C. Bryant 99 



THE RETURN OF MARKED KING SALMON GRILSE J. O. Snyder 102 



THE WHY AND HOW OF MOUNTAIN LION HUNTING IN CALI- 

 FORNIA Jay Bruce lOS 



BLACK BASS SHIPMENT TO MEXICO George Neale 114 



EIDITORIALS 118 



FACTS OF CURRENT INTEREST 131 



COMMERCIAL FISHERY NOTES 132 



LIFE HISTORY NOTES 134 



CONSERVATION IN OTHER STATES 135 



REPORTS 137 



Expenditures 137 



Seizures 137 



Fishery Products 13§ 



Violations of Fish and Game Laws 140 



A HISTORY OF FISHCULTURAL OPERATIONS IN 

 CALIFORNIA. 



By W. H. SiiEBLEY, in charge Department of Fishculture. 



The California Fish Commission was created by an act of the 

 legislature, entitled ''An act to provide for the restoration and preser- 

 vation of fish in the waters of the state, ' ' approved April 2, 1870. 



The United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries was established 

 by joint resolutions of Congress, approved February 9, 1871. Califor- 

 nia, therefore, had an organized fish commission nearly a year before 

 the federal government took up the work of multiplying the food fishes 

 and thereby increasing the food resources of the United States. 



The object of the first endeavor.s of the California Fish Commission 

 was the introduction and acclimatization of new species of food and 

 game fishes. As eggs could be obtained more easily than adult fish, 

 suitable hatcheries for the hatching of eggs became a necessity. 



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