is administered by the Department of Tidewater Fisheries. The
Commission also has power to make regulations governing the crab
fisheries and to enter into compact with the State of Virginia in this
regard, subject to review and approval by the Board of Natural
Resources. The Department is administering a three-part program
for the conservation of the fisheries. The first is concerned with
"farming" for the purpose of conserving and increasing the oyster.
The second is a fish management program which limits the number
of commercial licenses issued each year for the taking of fin-fish.
The third is a program of interstate cooperation which is concerned
primarily with the crabbing industry. In addition, each of these:
crabbing, fin-fishing, and oystering is subject to certain regulatory
restrictions. To enforce these regulations, the Department maintains
a fleet of thirty-six patrol boats and one patrol plane (Code 1951, Art.
66C, sees. 6,12).

Advisory Committee to the Commission
of Tidewater Fisheries

Chairman: Charles R. Renn

John A. Cochran, Samuel W. Snitzer, William Mason
Shehan, William Woodfield, Edgar H. Langral, G. F. Beaven.

The Advisory Committee to the Commission of Tidewater Fisheries
was appointed by the Governor in 1951. It is the purpose of the
committee to advise and consult with the Commission of Tidewater
Fisheries in formulating the policies for the development of the
resources of the Chesapeake Bay and in the administration of the
fisheries program.

Appropriations 1953 1954
General Fund $875,318 $877,165

Staff: 139.

DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND INLAND FISH

W. Desmond Walker, 1954; William B. Holton, 1955;
Charles G. Nathan, 1956; R. Frank Wambrow, 1957; Royden
S. Blunt, 1958.
Ernest A. Vaughn, Director

Harold Smith Kolmer, Assistant Director
George B. Shields, Chief Game Warden
Edwin M. Barry, Chief, Inland Fish Management
Chester M. Kearns, Chief, Game Management
Malcolm E. King, Public Relations Director
Albert M. Powell, Superintendent Fish Hatcheries
L. Maurice Amoss, Accountant

516 Munsey Bldg., Baltimore 2 Telephone: Saratoga 7-3054—7-3055

Region I: Allegany, Garrett and Washington Counties
Joseph A. Minke, Regional Game Warden
Dale Howard Arner, Wildlife Field Superintendent

Region II: Frederick, Carroll, Howard and Montgomery Counties

Benjamin F. Phebus, Regional Game Warden
Lewis S. Rudasill, Wildlife Field Superintendent