Report of the Chief Game Protector 

 for tf)e Y^ar 1^05 



Hox. J. S. AVhipple, Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner: 



SIR. — The protectors have been unusually busy during the past year, 

 and the statistics of prosecutions under the Forest, Fish and Game 

 Law, show that there were more than two hundred and fifty violations 

 discovered and brought to a final accounting than in the preceding year. 

 The total recovery amounts to vS55.520.40 as against $18,134.42 during 

 the year ending September 30, 1904. 



Protection of Vist) 



The protectors have been very vigilant in the seizure of devices for the 

 illegal taking of fish., and they have seized and destroyed about one hundred 

 more nets than were taken the year before. This work is exceedingly 

 hazardous, and the fish pirates are very bold, because one good haul will 

 pav for a net, and everything taken in subsequent hauls is clear gain. 



Illegal Devices Seized. 



BV REGULAR BY SPECIAL 

 PROTECTORS. PROTECTORS. 



TOTAL. 



Fykes 



Traps 



Gills 



Squats 



Seines 



Set Lines 



237 



156 



178 



176 



19 



19 



57 



108 



159 



83 



13 



4 



SO 



264 

 337 

 259 

 3 2 

 23 

 107 



