. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 189 the subject of "Preservation of Our Nat- ural ; The address was illus- trated by motion pictures, loaned for the occasion by Californians, Inc., and the Fish and Game Commission. Dr. Jordan, who is reputed to know more about fish than any other man in the world, warned the fishermen or "sportsmen" in his audience that the brook trout or "steel- head" (he asserts the
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 189 the subject of "Preservation of Our Nat- ural ; The address was illus- trated by motion pictures, loaned for the occasion by Californians, Inc., and the Fish and Game Commission. Dr. Jordan, who is reputed to know more about fish than any other man in the world, warned the fishermen or "sportsmen" in his audience that the brook trout or "steel- head" (he asserts they are one and the same) in this locality are not nearly as numerous as they formerly were, and that overfishing may practically exterminate them in time, just as the passenger pigeons, once so prolific in the forests of the east and middle west, are now com- pletely gone. The last one died last year. Chinook or King salmon, which abounds The crude oil from tankers. Dr. Jordan asserted, is the curse of the Pacific coast. A national law should be passed to end this oil-dripping that annually kills untold thousands of sea birds, fish, clams—all manner of sea creatures and water birds; as well as enormous quantities of plank- ton, the more or less invisible creatures at the surface, on which many young fishes feed. Birds are destroj'ed mainly because their wings become saturated with oil. Speaking of fishermen and hunters. Dr. Jordan divided them into two classes, "killers or hogs" and "; The former are the ones who are a menace to the future of our natural resources. Speaking briefly of the conservation of. Pig. 37. Black bears in Yosemite. in Monterey Bay at certain times of the year, many of them going north to the Klamath or other colder waters to spawn, is the finest of all salmon. In the fourth year it reaches about 18 pounds weight. Then they spawn and die. All the five species of Pacific salmon, male or female, die after once spawning. A cer
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