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FOREST AND STREAM 
Nov. 29, 1913. 
New Fish and Game Association 
BY GOLDEN GATE. 
The Peoples Fisli and Game Protection As¬ 
sociation of California has filed articles of incor¬ 
poration at San Francisco and will shortly make 
a campaign for membership. The association has 
established headquarters at 349 Davis street, in 
the heart of the wholesale and commission dis¬ 
trict, and in spite of its inspiring title promises 
to be an organization of dealers in game and of 
market hunters. A campaign is to be launched 
shortly for the enactment of laws changing the 
present measures governing the taking and the 
sale of game. It is proposed to allow wholesale 
dealers to sell wild game and fish without re¬ 
striction, to abolish all hunting and fishing license 
fees for persons who are citizens of the state, to 
take from the Fish and Game Commission the 
work of enforcing the laws as to bag limits and 
the killing of game and to assign this duty to the 
Board of Supervisors in the various counties, 
and to place a heavy tax on all lands leased sole¬ 
ly for hunting purposes, the proceeds to be ex¬ 
pended on the propagation of fish and game. 
The organization of this association has been 
encouraged by the success that has been met with 
by the market hunters, restaurant keepers and 
their allies in defeating, for the time being at 
least, the non-sale of game act passed by the last 
Legislature by invoking the referendum. The 
day following the opening of the duck season 
this year fully two thousand ducks were shipped 
to the local market. Since then shipments have 
been heavier and will probably increase as the 
season advances. Of course, these birds are be¬ 
ing shipped in proper form, twenty-five to the 
bag, as prescribed by law, a gentle intimation that 
there has been no violation of the game law. It 
is recognized by all who have looked into the 
matter that the placing of a bag limit on market 
hunters does not interfere with their shooting. It 
compels them to take care in shipping their game, 
but they can and do kill as many ducks as they 
please. 
Dealers and restaurant men have been 
watching their traffic in wild game slipping away 
from them for several years. The sale of veni¬ 
son has been prohibited for some time and for 
several years quail has been off the market. Duck 
is now the only wild game that can be had, but 
while 'the price prevailing is extremely high it is 
being demonstrated that as long as the sale of 
game is permitted a market can be found for all 
that falls to the guns -of the market hunters. A 
desperate effort is now being made to allow game 
of all kind to be sold again, and in the case of 
ducks the dealers have gained a temporary 
victory. 
HUNTING IN CALIFORNIA GOLDEN GATE. 
Although the slaughter of ducks has been 
very heavy this season this has been due more 
to the great increase in the number of hunters 
and to the activity of the market gunners than 
to the number of birds to be found. The lack of 
water in the interior valleys has resulted in the 
birds gathering on the salt-water marshes and in 
many districts where they are usually plentiful 
at this season of the year, but a very few have 
been killed. The rain that occurred about the 
first of the month scattered the ducks for a time 
but was not sufficiently heavy to relieve the situ¬ 
ation materially. In the San Joaquin valleys the 
season is very late in commencing and the out¬ 
look is for but a few weeks of sport. Ducks are 
quite plentiful in the Tulare Lake district, but 
the epidemic that is still making inroads in the 
feathered tribe is serving to keep hunters away. 
Violations of the game law have been quite 
frequent since the opening of the season, many of 
these being infractions of the Federal regulations. 
Five hunters were recently arrested near Los 
Angeles for shooting ducks before sunrise but 
no fines were imposed. Several arrests have been 
made at San Francisco Bay points where gunners 
have been found with shore birds in their pos¬ 
session. L. Johns and John Johns, two market 
hunters, were arrested near Fresno recently with 
eighty-four ducks in their possession, thirty-four 
more than the law allows. The men were taken 
before Judge Smith who imposed a fine of $50 on 
each with the warning that the next offense 
would result in a fine of $500. 
The State Game Farm has had quite a suc¬ 
cessful season, about eighteen hundred pheasants 
having been reared for distribution throughout 
the state. From reports that have been received 
from sections where these birds have been liber¬ 
ated in past years pheasants will soon become 
very numerous, and the time is not far distant 
when sportsmen may expect to have a taste of 
pheasant shooting. The attempts that have been 
made to propagate Hungarian partridges at the 
farm have so far been unsuccessful. 
Everyone owning a gun seems to be anxious 
to slay some game this season, judging from the 
number of hunting licenses that have been is¬ 
sued. Twenty thousand licenses have been issued 
in San Francisco alone, over eight thousand in 
the county of Alameda, two thousand in Contra 
Costa, about as many in San Mateo and fully one 
thousand in Marin. Quite a showing for the San 
Francisco Bay district alone. The state as a 
whole will probably show the heaviest sale of 
licenses ever made and this will be greatly aug¬ 
mented after the first of January when anglers 
will be compelled to take out licenses for the first 
time. 
The Board of Supervisors of Plumas County 
has decided to purchase the notable collection of 
birds and insects of Ed. Garner of Quincy and 
will exhibit this at the Panama-Pacific Interna¬ 
tional Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. The 
collection is said to be the finest ever made of 
California birds. 
The Cooper Ornithological Club will shortly 
issue a splendid work, “The Birds of California,” 
and one hundred citizens of the state have 
agreed to pay $1,000 each for a “patron’s edition.” 
The colored plates are to be from the original 
paintings by Allan Brooks of British Columbia, 
and the work will be replete with beautiful pho¬ 
tographs. 
FISHING IN CALIFORNIA. GOLDEN GATE. 
Twelve cans of black bass have been planted 
in Shaver lake in Fresno County under the di¬ 
rection of deputy fish and game commissioner 
Andy D. Ferguson, and anglers will watch the 
success of the planting with much interest as it 
is in the nature of an experiment. Shaver lake 
is at an elevation of five thousand feet, and no 
instance is known where black bass have thrived 
at such an altitude. Some time ago bass were 
planted in Crane Valley, at an elevation of three 
thousand feet, and so successful was the experi¬ 
ment that it was decided to attempt to propagate 
the fish at the higher altitude. The fish planted 
were adult bass rescued from holes in Kings 
river, which is nearly dry, and from canals in 
Kings County. 
Striped bass fishing is excellent at present in 
the San Francisco Bay section, and some very 
large fish are being taken. Fish seem to be plen¬ 
tiful at all of the various bass fishing grounds, 
and most of the anglers who have been out re¬ 
cently have made good catches. A fifty-pound 
striped bass was landed recently near Wingo, one 
of the largest taken there in several years, the for¬ 
tunate angler being a recent recruit to the Wingo 
brigade. On Schultz slough Robert Sangster re¬ 
cently took eight fine bass in one day, one of 
these being a thirty-two pound fish and three 
others weighing over twenty pounds each. On 
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took a twenty-pound bass and several fifteen- 
pound fish have been landed there during the past 
two weeks. A thirty-five pound bass was taken' 
on Petaluma Creek a few days ago by Henry 
Hellrich and Charles Patterson, and Ralph Rich¬ 
ardson recently had some splendid sport in the 
upper bay. 
Steelhead fishing is not of the highest order 
as yet, the rains having been too light to cause 
much of a run of fish from tide water. The sea¬ 
son promises to be a rather short one for good 
sport, as it closes on December 1st for fishing 
above tide water and a month later in salt water. 
One of the heaviest siezures of striped bass 
ever made was made a short time ago when offi¬ 
cials of the Fish and Game Commission seized 
2,700 pounds of fish in cold storage. 
