Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-31
FISH AND GAME.
Interesting Discussion Thereon Last
Evening Before Legislative Committees


evening, for the purpose of considering the
! several bills introduced affecting the fish
and game interests of the State. The at
tendance was quite large, representing the
! salmon-fishing, canning and sportsmen's
| fraternities Assemblyman Coleman pre-
| sided.
The first bill taken up was Assembly Bill
No 30, introduced by Wood of Sierra. The
bill re-enacts the law Of 1888, but has an
additional section empowering Boards of
| Supervisors 10 regulate the open and close
season.
Munday of Sonoma thought that the bill
would virtually destroy the whole matter
of game protection. In some counties quail
are a nuisance, but it would be very in
| iudicious to leave the matter to Boards of
! Supervisors That course would not reach
the desired end.
PYLE of Santa Clara moved that the bill
be adversely reported on.
Henley said il was getting late in the SEES
sion. Some bill should be disposed of as
early as possible, and he moved that they
| be considered at once
McGlashan wanted action postponed on
! the bills.
Hazard thought the bills should be con-
sidered tonight.
The Chair ruled that discussion was in
order He should rule that no bills go
| over unless the committee SO ordered.
Munday renewed his motion that Assem-
bly, Bill No. so be reported against by the
committee.
J. W. Todd, President of the Forester
Club, of Sacramento, said his associates
were as u unit opposed to the Supervisors
of counties fixing the limits of open and
close seasons.
H. H. Briggs, a representative of the
State SportSmen's Association, spoke on
| behalf OF that Association. He said the
| Association had been at great trouble and
expense in procuring information relative
to the condition of the game of the State,
| and the kind Of legislation necessary to
protect game interests. From the informa-
ton received ii was evident that no general
law could be made applicable to all parts of
the State. The Association believes that
| discretionary power to shorten or extend
the seasons should be lodged somewhere
say to some Board not dependent on the
popular voice for its guidance
would be a good thing. If such Board
could be appointed by the Governor it
| would answer the purpose. In the absence
of such an authority he thought such
power should be lodged in the Board of
| Fish Commissioners, instead of SuperyisOrs,
as named in the bill. If that power were
| given to these Commissioners they would
doubtless be governed By a desire to do the
right thing
Mr.. McGIashan moved that the words
State Board of Fish Commissioners be in
serted instead Boards Of Supervisors.
c. \. Post of Sacramento, argued against
the proposed amendment. If the open sea
| son III Nevada county were TO begin Sep
TENDER LIST, the market-huntersi in adjoining
counties would kill quails in September,
! and thus the total abrogation Of the game
| law would result. He said that many pro-
minent grape-growers and horticulturists
| were now convinced that quails We're
benefit rather than detriment in vine
| wards and orchards Another erroneous
! impression is that game laws are generally
in the interest OF the rich. On the contrary,
game laws are in the interest of the poor,
as the rich can have their own preserves
and protect their own game.
Mr. Pyle said he still felt like pressing
his objection to the bill. Under its pro-
| visions a man living in a county adjoining
one in which the close season was month
or two later might unknowinglv cross the
line and transgress the law by killing game
| outside his own county.
McGlashan argued in support of the bill,
but would prefer to have the power to
regulate the seasons reposed in the Board
| of Fish Commissioners.
Munday moved that a vote on the bill be
postponed until bill introduced by Mr..
Pyle on the preceding day be laid before
the committee. SO ordered.
The next bill taken up was Assembly
Bill No 80. introduced by Mr.. Goucher Of
| MarpOsa, prohibiting the deposit of saw
dust in streams.
Hazard moved to amend so as TO apply
only to redwood sawdust as he was in
formed that pine sawdust was not detri-
mental to fish
Goucher said he could produce an album
! dance of affidayits from his district show
ing that trout are killed by sugar-pine
saWdust.
McGlashan said it would cost the Truckee
river lumbermen $4,000 a year if the bill
were to become q law.
! Henley of Mendocino said he did not
| know what effect pine sawdust in the
! Truckee river has on trout. but in Mendo-
elmo county redwood yellow pine and SUI
gar pine sawdust does kill the trout. Ali
the information that has come to him on
the subject from other numbering districts
comedies with his own observations. Per-
haps sawdust does not have the same effect
| on Truckee river trout that it has on the
! trout of other streams.
Goucher asked McIlashan if the trout
shipped from Wadsworth are not taken
| from Pyramid Lake.
NcCilashan admitted that the trout were
taken soon after leaving Pyramid Lake on
their way up the Truckee.
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