. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 224 CALIFORNIA FISH AXI) GAME depletion i)\-('i' the ciilii-c hay was lalcr est iiual cd at alxHil (id pci- cent. In otlier words, only about 40 per cent of a normal crop Avas present. This condition was speedily rcjiortod to bolli State and Federal authorities charged with iish and wildlife eunservation. Paul Bonnot of the California Division of Fish <nid (lame, made investigations early in December, 1940, which confirmed the fact
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 224 CALIFORNIA FISH AXI) GAME depletion i)\-('i' the ciilii-c hay was lalcr est iiual cd at alxHil (id pci- cent. In otlier words, only about 40 per cent of a normal crop Avas present. This condition was speedily rcjiortod to bolli State and Federal authorities charged with iish and wildlife eunservation. Paul Bonnot of the California Division of Fish <nid (lame, made investigations early in December, 1940, which confirmed the fact that material reduction of eelprrass had occurred in California in the last few years. Bonnot could find no evidence that the bliylit which in 19;}1 destroyed most of the eelgrass on the Atlantic Coast of North America was contributing to the local decline. Kather, he suggested that deposits of silt several inches in excess of normal which had been brought down to the bays by the unusually heavy rainstorms of recent years, might be a cause for the present depletion. This is a theory wdiieh many local residents of our eelgrass bays believe to be the chief cause of the |)latit's Fig. 61. Eelgrass and kelp washed ashore near Three Arch Rocks, Oregon Coast, near Netarts Bay. Photographed September 27, 19 40, by Stanley G. Jewett, U. S. Fish and W^ildlife Service. ]^r. Clarence Cottam, United States Fish and AVildlife Service, was especially interested in the Pacific Coast eelgrass decline because of his wide experience with the Atlantic Coast catastrophe. When the extent of the California losses was made known to him in December, 1940, he suggested that the writer join him in an investigation of the matter. This was done and the results have been prepared for publica- tion in a paper of joint authorship now in ]iress. It is expected that this review of the Pacific Coast eelgrass situation will be published in a United States Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Leaflet be
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