Excerpt from Report of Commissioners of Fisheries of the State of California for the Years 1870 and 1871 The Commissioners of Fisheries for the State of California, appointed under an act of the Legislature, entitled An Act to provide for the restoration and preser vation of fish in the waters of this State, approved April second, eighteen hundred and seventy, respectfully submit their first biennial report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.