. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. SPECIAL SERVICES Statistical Section The Fish and Game Department's continuing policy of economical operation and high qual- ity service demands that their operations be based on facts. The Statistical Section is the key element in furnishing many facts to ad- ministrators and managers. A professional wildlife statistician is em- ployed to obtain data and analyze trends for the department personnel. At his fingertips are science's most adva
. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. SPECIAL SERVICES Statistical Section The Fish and Game Department's continuing policy of economical operation and high qual- ity service demands that their operations be based on facts. The Statistical Section is the key element in furnishing many facts to ad- ministrators and managers. A professional wildlife statistician is em- ployed to obtain data and analyze trends for the department personnel. At his fingertips are science's most advanced computers. These ma- chines produce in hours the information that was unobtainable a decade ago. The skilled resource manager can work with the statisti- cian and analyze the trends that become ap- parent. From this come the recommendations for administration. An example of this is the shift of the Pacific Flyway to central Montana. Extensive projects were set up to analyze the banding data from 1926 to the present. These facts showed trends that helped convince waterfowl managers that the flyway line should be where it is rather than the Montana-Idaho border, where it was in I960 when the analysis of the data began. The data, carefuly collected, was studied, re- analyzed and restudied to make sure that the the recommendations were sound. A similar service is provided to the Fish Di- vision. Special projects needing extensive or complex analysis are submitted to the statis- tical section. There the fisheries personnel and statistician work as a team. Currently being developed is a system to measure the fishing pressure on lakes and streams. This will aid in water resource development reports to agen- cies requesting information on recreational use. In this case the computer plays a big role since over 10,000 bodies of water have been cataloged and available for reference. Corre- lated information on the number of fish planted in the past 10 years is available from the file
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