. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 23 administration of the resource should not be based on guess work, so it was decided that knowledge of the resource should be substituted for assumptions and should serve as the foundation of the department. Research workers were called upon to aid the department in learning something of the fundamentals of the fish supply to be administered and the State Fisheries Laboratory was established. The staff was
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 23 administration of the resource should not be based on guess work, so it was decided that knowledge of the resource should be substituted for assumptions and should serve as the foundation of the department. Research workers were called upon to aid the department in learning something of the fundamentals of the fish supply to be administered and the State Fisheries Laboratory was established. The staff was asked to make accurate observations as to the resource, check these observations to be sure they were dependable, make an orderly arrangement of the observed facts, and as a final step to draw con- clusions based on facts rather than on assumptions. That procedure is the essence of the scientific method. It might be called systematized common sense. When the Ford is missing you go over it and trace the. Fig. 15. California State Fisiieries Laboratory, Terminal Island, California. October, 1927. Photograph by G. H. Stone. trouble down to a blackened spark plug rather than oil the timer on suspicion, and to that extent you apply the scientific method without wearing your hair long or using a microscope. The program of the laboratory then is clear cut and definite; to aid the department in getting the necessary information as to fish supply, to estimate how heavily the supply of each species may be drawn upon, to discover any changes occurring in the supply, and to determine at what point depletion begins to show itself. This is a large program but it is the proper one. The complete fulfillment of such a program will require many years of the concentrated effort of the best brains that can be applied to these questions, but complete fulfillment is not. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colo
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