TWENTY-FIRST BIENNIAL REPORT 
OF THE 
BOARD Of FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONERS. 
San Francisco, Cal., November 11, 1910. 
Hon. J. N. Gillett, 
Governor, State of California, Sacramento, Cal. 
Sir : In accordance with law, the Board of Fish and Game Commis¬ 
sioners have the honor to submit for your consideration its Twenty-first 
Biennial Report, showing the receipts and expenditures from July 1, 
1908, to June 30, 1910; also a record of its work from the date of its 
last report, September 1, 1908, to September 1, 1910. 
Owing to the exhaustion of the appropriation given the Commission 
for printing at the thirty-seventh session of the legislature, the Board 
was unable to print for general distribution its twentieth biennial 
report. You will find in the Appendix of this report a reprint of that 
report as submitted to you and the members of the thirty-eighth session, 
that it may in this way take its place in the history of the Commission. 
During the thirty-eighth legislative session we succeeded in having 
the statutes so amended that after July 1, 1909, ample authorization 
could be found permitting us to pay for all necessary printing and 
stationery supplies out of our own funds without taxing the general 
fund of the State therefor, and we are, therefore, able this year to 
present a more elaborate and detailed report. 
We also submit for your consideration such recommendations as in 
our judgment the legislature should, for the betterment of existing 
conditions, provide enactments. 
The personnel of the Commission since its biennial report of 1906 
has undergone several changes. On May 14, 1907, Mr. George Stone 
of San Francisco, who had been appointed by you to fill the vacancy 
caused by the resignation of Mr. W. W. Yan Arsdale, presented his 
credentials and took office. On June 25, 1907, Mr. F. W. Yan Sicklen 
of Alameda succeeded to the vacancy caused by the resignation of 
Mr. W. E. Gerber, who, with Commissioner Yan Arsdale, had served 
nearly six years. At the first meeting of the Board held May, 1907, 
George Stone was elected president, and served until May 12, 1910. 
On July 15, 1908, Mr. M. J. Connell of Los Angeles, who had been 
