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REPORT OF BOARD OF FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
appointed by yon, presented his credentials to the Board, succeeding 
Mr. John Bermingham, Jr., of Pinole (resigned), who had served from 
March 23, 1905. On May 12, 1910, Mr. W. G. Henshaw of Oakland, 
who had been appointed by you to fill the vacancy caused by the resig¬ 
nation of George Stone, took his seat as a member of the Board. On 
August 15, 1910, Mr. Chas. A. Vogelsang, who had been the Chief 
Deputy of the Board since October 15, 1901, and who on May 12, 1910, 
tendered his resignation as such officer, was succeeded on August 15, 
1910, by John P. Babcock, who was the Chief Deputy of the Board 
from 1892 to 1901. 
In order to better meet the demands made by the steadily increasing 
volume of business, it was decided to establish a southern district, 
with headquarters at Los Angeles, and that office to be under the per¬ 
sonal supervision of the resident commissioner, Mr. M. J. Connell, to 
whom all deputies in southern California should report. This office 
was established July 1, 1908, and embraces the counties of San Diego, 
Imperial, Riverside, Orange, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Inyo, Ven¬ 
tura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo. 
The results proving so satisfactory, another district was established 
June 1, 1909, in the San Joaquin Valley, with headquarters at Fresno, 
and Deputy A. D. Ferguson placed in charge. The San Joaquin dis¬ 
trict embraces the counties of Kern, Kings, Tulare, Fresno, Mariposa, 
Merced, Madera, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne. 
This segregation of the work has greatly facilitated the dispatch of 
business and proved of great advantage to the respective sections, and 
strongly suggests the advisability of establishing a third district in the 
northern part of the State. 
The results that have followed amendments to the statutes during the 
thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth legislative sessions, and which became 
laws by your approval, have been in the main satisfactory. 
The commercial fisherman’s license law, as amended at thirty-eighth 
session produced a total revenue for the first year of its operation of 
$22,350.00, as against a maximum collection under the old law of 
$6,647.50, or an annual gain of more than $15,000.00. Under the pro¬ 
visions of this law a fee is exacted of every person who fishes for profit, 
whether using boat, nets, crawfish traps, or lines of any kind. This 
feature has enabled us to collect from many who were practically 
exempt under the old law, which applied only to those who used boats 
and nets. The total amount arising from this source is added to the 
appropriation of $20,000.00, made for the support and maintenance of 
hatcheries. It has enabled us to carry out necessary improvements at 
our Eel River and Sisson hatcheries, and to acquire two entirely new 
and modern patrol boats, without a cent of appropriation therefor. 
