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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga3_1917cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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70 CALIFOENIA FISH AND GAME. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME A publication devoted to the conserva- tion of wild life and published quarterly by the California State Fish and Game Commission. Sent free to citizens of the State of Cali- fornia. Offered in exchange for ornitho- logical, mammalogical and similar period- icals. The articles published in California Fish AND Game are not copyrighted and may be reproduced in other periodicals, provided due credit is given the California Fish and Game Commission. Editors of newspapers and periodicals are invited to make use of pertinent material. All material for publication should be sent to H. C. Bryant, Museum of Verte- brate Zoology, Berkeley, Cal. April 15, 1917.
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THE NEW COMMISSIONER. On December 8, 1916, Mr. Edward L. Bosqui of San Francisco was appointed fish and game commissioner to succeed Carl Westerfeld, who was elected at that time to the office of executive officer of the commission. Mr. Bosqui is a son of Edward Bosqui, a pioneer printer and publisher of San Francisco. The present commissioner, like his father, is a lover of field sports and has found I'cci'e- ation in fishing and hunting since his boyhood days. This long experience with the fish and game of California makes of Mr. Bosqui a most valuable ally of the men who hunt and fish and of those interested in wild life conservation. Acquainted with the out-of-doors as few men are, he brings to his new position a knowledge of conditions that is sure to count for better fish and game conservation. His slogan is: "More fish and game for all of the people." NEW GAME LEGISLATION. As in past years there has been much interest taken in the fish and game legislation before the present legislature. In all 60 senate bills and 106 assembly bills relative to fish and game were introduced during the month of January. Some of these bills are constructive conservation bills; others would tear down much of the protective work of past years. Noticeable among destructive bills are those relating to the taking of protection from such nongame birds as the red- shafted flicker or "yellowhammer," the meadowlark and the blackbird, and the taking of protection from ducks and geese in certain areas where it is claimed they are causing damage to rice. Provisos in our laws already stipulate that crops may be protected from the depredations of nongame birds. At least four bills provide for extensive bounties on predatory birds and animals. One bill sets aside $80,000 for bounties, and still an- other, one-fourth of all hunting license fees. Any such step would be a back- ward step, judging from the experience of other states. The bounty system has no- where been a success except in those rare instances where a single animal of uncommon occurrence is the one on which a bounty is paid. In almost every case where the bounty system has been tried it has resulted in fraud and misrepresentation and in an early depletion of the public treasury. A number of bills of constructive character have been introduced by the Fish and Game Commission. Many of them are amendments to existing laws and are designed to make enforcement easier. For instance, the laws protecting beaver and sea otter have been amended to include green skins as well as the possession of the animals themselves. During the past two or three years two attempts at conviction have failed owing to the inadequacy of these two laws. Amendments have also been made to the Bow- man law, so that game breeding can be

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