Some statistics:
California Fish and Game Wardens:
• Cover 159,000 square miles of land
• 1 million acres of Fish and Game properties
• Cover 1100 miles of coastline/ 7 major ports
• Responsibilities to 200 miles at sea
• Over 300 million pounds of commercial fish landings
• Cover 30,000 miles of rivers
• Cover 66,000 fish businesses
• Cover 900,000 vessels registered
• 37 million Californians
* over 1,250,000 resident sport fishing licenses issued a year
* 6,000 resident and non-resident commercial fishing licenses issued per year
* 187 licensed fish wholesalers
* 262,000 resident hunting licenses issued per year
CAL-TIP receives over 3,000 calls a year.
