. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. TWENTY-SEVENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 65 July were to be kept closed Init the eoutiimed use of trammel nets was to be permitted in the district during open seasons, a concession whieh had been granted as a war measure by the United States Food Adminis- tration. That part of the law whicli provided a closed season of .J\nie and July in District 12b was later attacked by counsel for the fislier- men who claimed that the section of the Penal C
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. TWENTY-SEVENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 65 July were to be kept closed Init the eoutiimed use of trammel nets was to be permitted in the district during open seasons, a concession whieh had been granted as a war measure by the United States Food Adminis- tration. That part of the law whicli provided a closed season of .J\nie and July in District 12b was later attacked by counsel for the fislier- men who claimed that the section of the Penal Code which deseril)es the kinds of nets which may be used, permitted the use of gill nets of certain mesh in the district during June and July. Tlie ease was finally decided in favor of the fishermen. Judge ^Icdvenzie of tlie superior court of Contra Costa County deciding that laws restricting the right to fish must be clear and without ambiguity. The linal result was that salmon were getting less protection than Fig. 2 0. State Fisheries Laboratory, East San Pedro, California. It is here that important research work on tlie commercial fisheries is being carried on by a staff of scientists. Photograph by W. F. Thompson. At our request a bill was introduced at the liJ21 session of the legislature which proposed to give the Sacramento salmon a fair meas- ure of protection. It provided that salmon netting be eliminated in the river above the city of Sacramento; that the months of June and July be closed to conform to the season already provided for striped bass and shad; and that the fall season be closed on September ir)th instead of the 25th. Closed seasons were also provided to curtail the catch of salmon in sea trolling. The measures finally adoi)ted were inadequate. Fishing in the upper Sacramento continues; the months of June and July are still open and the closed seasons adopted for the outside trolling districts were cut down so as to give but little |>nitir tion
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