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CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 



CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME 



A publication devoted to the conserva- 

 tion of wild life and published quarterly 

 by the California State Fish and Game 

 Commission. 



Sent free to citizens of the State of Cali- 

 fornia. Offered in exchange for ornitho- 

 logical, mammalogical and similar period- 

 icals. 



The articles published in California 

 Fish and Game are not copyrighted and 

 may be reproduced in other periodicals, 

 provided due credit is given the California 

 Fish and Game Commission. Editors of 

 newspapers and periodicals are invited 

 to make use of pertinent material. 



All material for publication should be 

 sent to H. C. Bryant, Museum of Verte- 

 brate Zoology, Berkeley, Cal. 



APRIL 22, 1922. 



"Of all sports, commend me to angling; 

 it Is the wisest, virtuousest, best." — 

 Thomas Hood. 



NEW EXECUTIVE OFFICER. 



On March 14 Mr. Charles A. Vogel- 

 sang, who ha.s been executive officer since 

 1920, resigned to accept another, more 



George Neale, executive officer. 



remunerative, position. Mr. George 

 Neale, who has been in charge of the 

 Sacramento district office since 1911, was 

 appointed to succeed Mr. Vogelsang. Mr. 



Neale comes to his position as one inti- 

 mately acquainted with the fish and game 

 of this state and the problems connected 

 with its consei'vation. Every employee 

 of the commission is extremely well 

 pleased with the appointment, for they 

 know that from the standpoint of 

 knowledge, experience and personality, 

 Mr. Neale is well equipped for his future 

 work. It is fortunate, also, that the new 

 position comes as a promotional appoint- 

 ment under civil service. 



George Neale came to California when 

 he was sixteen years of age, spending two 

 years in San Francisco and then settling 

 in Sacramento, where he entered the mar- 

 ket produce business. Due to his inter- 

 est in fish and game he was appointed 

 game warden of Sacramento County in 

 January, 1901, and two months later was 

 appointed a deputy state fish and game 

 commissioner. He proved himself a ca- 

 pable warden, cleaning up a particularly 

 bad situation due to the laxity of enforc- 

 ing the laws. On August 3, 1911, he was 

 placed in charge of fiie Sacramento dis- 

 trict office, which he has efficiently 

 managed up to the present time. 



Mr. Neale is an ardent angler and 

 hunter and a true conservationist, and 

 sportsmen and conservationists alike may 

 look forward to an efficient administration 

 of the fish and game resources of the 

 state. 



A HATCHERY NUMBER. 



Perhaps the most outstanding achieve- 

 ments or the California Fish and Game 

 Commission have been the successful in- 

 troduction of numerous food and game 

 fishes and the artificial propagation of 

 trout and salmon for use in stocking bar- 

 ren streams and lakes and restocking de- 

 pleted waters. Everybody knows from 

 the local papers that sometime during the 

 summer and fall the fish car makes an 

 annual vi.sit to some town close by and 

 that thousands of trout fry are carried to 

 nearby streams by interested sportsmen, 

 but of methods and actual output fi'om 

 the hatcheries the average citizen knows 

 little. How many hatcheries are there? 

 What is the annual output? How are 

 trout fry planted? These and many more 

 (juestions are answered in this "Hatchery 

 Number." 



The Fish and Game Commission boasts 

 of having retained the continuous services 

 of a skilled fishculturist for thirty-nine 

 years. Mr. Wm. II. Shebley, in charge 

 of fishculture, whose picture is shown 

 above, has the distinction of being the 

 commission's oldest employee and of hav- 

 ing been trained under such pioneer fish- 



