Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishgabien19501952cali2 (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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To keep an accurate account of the State's fisheries is an extremely complex job requiring the services of a trained staff. This is the machine room of the statistical unit. The tabulating machine is in the fore- ground, with the sorter, key-punch and verifying machines against the walls. Phofo by Herb Phillips, San Pedro. north. The office selected was large enough to provide a local headquarters for other bureaus of the Department, with the result that there has been a unification of the activities of all concerned, to the benefit of all. This reorganization of the work has entailed only a nominal increase in the staff. In the biennium two clerical positions and one supervisory position have been established and the total staff in the statistical unit now numbers 23. "We have not had the full benefit of this number, how- ever, because of an appreciable turn-over in help and the difficulty of securing competent, permanent employees. The supervisory position was requested in order to centralize responsibility for the machine operations. A single major change in equipment has sufficed to accomodate the work. Both tabulating machines have been increased in capacity by the addition of 15 numeric type bars, 24 additional counters and a subtrac- tion unit which gives us greater flexibility in the resulting reports. A major improvement concerns the coordination of the statistical routines with the field offices, the field biologists and the patrol force. At a number of conferences statistical problems have been presented and discussed with patrol, laboratory and office personnel and their interest and cooperation elicited. As a consequence there is now better integration of the work and the resulting record has improved con- siderably.

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