Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-05
FISH ND GAME.
Deputy Commissioners Dismissed fo

Deputy Commissioners Dismissed for
Breaking the Laws.
There was an interesting meeting of the
State Fish and Game Commissioners in
San Francisco yesterday, at which Com
missioners Reuter- and ]. Downey Harvey
were present.
The Chief of Patrol, F. D. Callundun,
reported that during January fishing had
been difficult, owing to extreme high water.
The law regarding doe killing had been
well observed, and not one doeskin had
been found in the San Francisco market.
Complaints have been received of illegal
fishing by persons representing themselves
as deputies of the Chief of Patrol. Com.
plant has also been made of restrictions on
fish put by MIR Lamotte in the Sonoma
creek. The prosecutions for illegal fishing
by Chinese and others were detailed. There
is an obstruction interfering with salmon
spawning near Cazadero, but this is being
watched 1t was recommended that full
reports be required monthly from all depu-
ties.
Carl Precht and Charles Ohm, having
been complained against for fishing for
trout and small fish out of season, were
questioned regarding their fishing. They
are Deputy Fish Commissioners, and
claimed that the fish they have been catch
ing in Sonoma creek are not trout, but sal
mol. Some Of these fish weigh twenty
one pounds and specimens have been sent
to the Academy of Sciences to determine
precisely what they are.
Mr.. Reuter- spoke very emphatically
against the practice of deputies catching
the same fish under different names in
both the open and close seasons. The ar
rest of both the fishermen was threatened,
and at Mr.. Reuters suggestion the services
of both as Deputy Commissioners were
dispensed with. Mr.. Reuter- ssid that IN
questionably the spawn taken from the fish
caught by these fishermen would hatch
tout. The Commissioners considered that
the action of these fishermen was repre-
hensible, not so much as individual fisher
men, but for fishing out of season while
acting as Deputy Fish Commissioners.
Mr.. Ohm challenged the Commissioners
TO send officers up Son0ma creek, where he
was confident they would discover men
spearing the same sort of fish that he has
been taking with hook and line.
Mr.. Briggs of San Francisco expressed the
opinion as a sportsman that the action of
the fishermen named was not sportsman
like. Such practice, if universal would
prevent all sport in summer of a large
number of fishermen.
Ramon Wilson, the legal adviser of the
Board, said that without regard to exact
nomenclature the fish should be protected,
and the Commissioners should let it be
generally known that prosecutions will fol-
low such fishing at this time OF the year.
Superintendent Woodbury. of the Com
mission has just received permission,
through Senator Stanford, to take trout
spawn from Pyramid Lake, New. These
spawn will be taken at the proper time to
the new Tahoe hatchery, or brought to
this city, where it is proposed soon to
establish hatchery. The lake is one of
the best stocked lakes in the West. Ii is
on an Indian reservation, and the Indians
have been killing great numbers with
clubs. The Government officers on the
reservation have now been ordered TO
check this iudisc7iminate killing. The In
disns have been destroying the trout dur
ing the spawning season by going into the
shadows of the Truckee river.
There are now over !, 500 coo young sal
mon at the hatchery at Sissou, ready for
distribution but the weather has been such
that transportation has been impossible.
The fish are all in excellent condition snd
could have been sent out six weeks ago.
The hatchery water. running all the time,
keeps an average temperature at its spring
source of 4So and never freezes in the
hatchery.
Senator Sprague of Yolo has promised to
arrange an importation of Monaghan
pheasants from Oregon. a hundred pairs
will be brought down early in the summer
aud distributed at different points.
A number Of Bob White quail are to
be brought to the State from Texas. Walter
Bryant of the Academy of Sciences con-
siders the wild turkey and the Eastern
quail desirable birds to import. He ques-
lions the desiIsbiliiy of the Monaghan
nhaasent