. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 18 CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME As a citizen and taxpayer of California I have been proud of the economic development of California and have aided it as f could. I believe in developing all the sea products, intelligently, saving for the people everything that can be used; but it is very evident that the people cannot trust the army of alien market fishermen to conserve American interests. They do not understand the meaning of the word. T
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 18 CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME As a citizen and taxpayer of California I have been proud of the economic development of California and have aided it as f could. I believe in developing all the sea products, intelligently, saving for the people everything that can be used; but it is very evident that the people cannot trust the army of alien market fishermen to conserve American interests. They do not understand the meaning of the word. The people must conserve wild life, fish and game, or it will disappear. The alien mai'ket man and some Amei-icans have no intin-est or patience in this. Ignorance and avarice often go hand in hand and the people of California must protect themselves from this combination, or their. Record Catch of Swonl l-'isli ;it Santa ("atalina Island, The largest one weighed 202 pouinls. Septemlier 14, most valuable products w'ill go to waste or to the enrichment of the few. It is not the object of this paper to suggest remedies. ])ut to point out that it has taken years to obtain the primitive reforms we have or stop the extinction raids of aliens and it is significant that after ten months' trial these men would revoke one of the best laws for the conservation of the fisheries any state has had. It is not California alone that confronts this problem. The valuable shad fisheries of the east are threatened. The entire season's catch of shad in the Chesapeake Bay in 1914 did not equal that of one day in 1900. The market men were told by the United States Fish Commis- sion, that if they would allow 10 per cent of the migratory fish to go up the rivers, this would insure them a livelihood and a catch the fol- lowing year, but the men were so densely ignorant, their brains so clodded with avarice, that they preferred to take the last shad and face. Please note that these images are extrac
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