The morning call., 1892-08-10
THE CRY IS MORE MONEY. !"
Mr.. Redding Says the Fish An.
preparation Is Too Small.
To This Cause he Lays the Evils Of the Devas-
tation Of Chinese Fish Pirates as Ex-
posed in The CALI

The Fishermen's Political, Protective and
Industrial Club is booming and promises to
play an interesting part In State politics
this year.
Legislative candidates who viii pledge
themselves to the cause Of preserving and
protecting the fish and fish industries Of
California Will receive the unstinted in
doTsement of the club.
And when the next Legislature meets thu
club will 60 to Sacramento and do some
tall lobbying and buttonholing in the inter-
ests of needed laws and reforms.
Already the club has about 500 members
in this city. and most of these are natural
lied citizens. One good work that the club
is pushing rapidly is to effect the natural
ization Of every fisherman who has been a
resident OF this country the required length
of time.
AT its last meeting the Fishermens Po-
iitical. Protective and Industrial Club
passed vote of thanks to THE CALL for
''its unselhsh labors in behalf of the pres
ervation oil fish 10 San Francisco Bay.''
One good result of THE CALLS recent
expose of the Chinese fish pirates and their
methods has been TO scare off the junks.
Several OF the largest Chinese fishing camps
on the bay are now deserted, and ii is said
that those still running are catching moth
ing but shrimps.
Unfortunately shrimp-ca,ching is free the
year round. This is entirely wrong. As
heretofore pointed out in THE CALI.
shrimps are one of the main foods OF the ed
ible fish. Their wholesale slaughter by the
Chinese Is as deplorabe as the catching Of
young fish. 1t is to be hoped that the next
Legislature will make a stringent close sea-
son Tor shrinps. 1t is also to be hoped that
the Legislature Will provide some means for
enforcing The laws pertaining to the preser-
walton OF fish.
THE LAWS VIOLATED.
That the laws are openly aud fagrantly
violated The CALL has shown plainly and
at great length. Either some means should
be provided Tor the enforcement of these
laws or the Fish Commission abolished as a
useless and expensive luxury.
new Fish Commissioner is needed
badly. Since last February Joseph Morizio
has neither attended to any OF the duties Of
bis Office nor any of the meetings of the Fish
Commission. The secretary of the COM
mission, Ramon L. Wilson, has repeatedly
written to Morlzio requesting his attend
ance, but has invariably received no answer.
The same fate has befallen the letters, per-
sonal and official, sent by joseph ID. Red
ding. the president of the commission, to the
absentee.
Al last, in order to perform the necessary
business oil the commission, that body de-
posed Morizio from the treasurership of the
commission and added the treasurer's du~
ties 10 those OF the secretary
Neither Mr.. Redding nor Mr. Wilson
has the slightest idea as to the where
ab0uts Of MOriZio. At the latter's Office on
California street two months mail has
accumulated, and the elevator man SAYS
Morizo has not been there for that length
OF time.
Frequent visits to Morizlo's reputed resi-
depee on Railroad avenue. in Alameda. by
CALL reporter elected the informs alton
that the missing Commissioner had either
"just gone over TO the city, or had mot re-
turned home yet, the rather comedy lady
who answered the door-bel always insist
Ing, however, tina tMr. MoriZio was in the
city attending TO his usual duties.
new Fish Commissioner Is badly
wanted.
Joseph ID. Redding has just returned from
his European trip. He has been going over
the commissions scrapbook and the back
flies OF The CALL. What he read there of
commission and tue baneful work of tho
Chinese fish-pirates has perplexed him
sorely, and furnished much food where
witha to accord THE CALL reporter who
visited him yesterday the following inter-
view:
THE COMMISSIONERS.
81 hardly think The CALL ought to have
been so severe in what it said about the
inactivity Of the commission" began Mr..
Reddng.
1--WE are doing all we possibly can do to
protect the fish and enforce the laws, but it
Is utterly impossible TO do either with any
degree Of efficiency with the available
funds.
"Just think of 1t. now, we have territory
to patrol equal to that OF New England,
the Middle States, aud North aud South
Carolina. Where the Fish Commissioners
Of these States have an appropriation Of
$4,000 we have but $4,000. They have
2ooooO00 people. which is great advan-
tage, since In athickiy populated community
Illegal fishermen find their path more thorny
than here 10 California where the popula-
ton is but 1,000.O0
I'VE have the same coast lire and the
same interior waters 10 project as that COM