236 TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 



States Commission has planted even more. The steady falling off in this 

 highly important branch of the fishing industry makes it necessary, how- 

 ever, to do something further, and plans are already being considered, in 

 the hope of producing an improvement. 



License Pees 



As the State receives little or nothing from license fees for the use of 

 nets, and as fish belong to the general public, and as the fishermen profit 

 by the taking of an article in which they have no special property rights, 

 they ought in reason to pay something toward the support of the State 

 government. Therefore, the rules relative to the issuing of licenses should, 

 in my judgment, be amended so as to charge a license fee according to the 

 size of the nets, or so much per boat according to its tonnage. 



From the foregoing remarks it will be seen that the Department of 

 Game Protection has been fully as busy as usual during the past year and 

 that the results sseured have been fully up to the average. The outlook is 

 for even better results in the future. 



Respectfully submitted. 



J. Warren Pond, 



Chief Game Protector. 



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