. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 62 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION The investigations in the 8an Joaquin Delta have been o-reatly facili- tated by the construction of the new Fish and Game researcli vessel. Striper. This vessel is owned by the Bureau of Pish Conservation and is manned by a netman and boatswain employed by the Bureau of ]\Iarine Fisheries. His time is divided about e(|ually between the two bureaus. Tlie Sf>-ipcr is a 28-foot Frazer River tyi)e ill-net bo
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 62 FISH AND GAME COMMISSION The investigations in the 8an Joaquin Delta have been o-reatly facili- tated by the construction of the new Fish and Game researcli vessel. Striper. This vessel is owned by the Bureau of Pish Conservation and is manned by a netman and boatswain employed by the Bureau of ]\Iarine Fisheries. His time is divided about e(|ually between the two bureaus. Tlie Sf>-ipcr is a 28-foot Frazer River tyi)e ill-net boat witli a power reel for windinji' up gill nets. Tt is equipped with bunks and facilities for cooking'. When used by Fish Conservation, most of the Striper's. KicJLKK 14. Fish and Game boat .s7;-(;jf)-jointly ii.'^ed liy tlie Bureau of ^Aiarine Fislieries and the Bureau of Fish for research in tlie Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Photoyruph h>/ Ktamrr Adams. time is spent working on striped bass. Marine Fisheries uses most of its share of the boat's time on salmon investigation but has done some work on crabs. The boat has been used for tow net hauls, for the dragging of small trawds and dredges, and for gill-netting to obtain striped bass and salmon for tagging. The power-operated net reel makes this last opera- tion far easier and more efficient. The use of this power reel makes it possible for the operators to make as many as six comparatively short gill-net drifts wdiere a crew w^ith a hand-pulled gill net would find it possible to make no more than two long drifts. This means that the fish spend a relatively shoi't time tangled in our nets, hence are much less weakened by being held. A net is strung out in an appropriate place and allowed to drift for wdiatever length of time seems most desirable, usually about an hour, and then is picked up. To pick up the net, one operator steps on a treadle in the rear of the boat. This starts the big reel turning slowl
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