Van Camp Sea Food Co. v. Fish & Game Commission

From the petition presented herein it appears that the business of petitioner includes that of canning sardines and manufacturing fertilizer as a byproduct of its fish canning industry; that in accordance with the provisions of the statute of this state enacted at the session of the legislature in 1925 (Stats. 1925, p. 595), petitioner made application to the respondent Pish and Game Commission for the purpose of having determined by said Commission the monthly capacity of the packing plant of said petitioner, to the end that its right to manufacture therein the maximum quantity of fish fertilizer as provided by the terms of the statute might also be determined and certified by said Commission; that in accordance with the prayer of said application a hearing was had before said Commission, and thereupon it made certain findings of fact from which certain conclusions were deduced and which resulted in an order being made by, said Commission authorizing petitioner, “while actually engaged in packing sardines a monthly allowance of sardines to be used in its reduction plant of forty-five hundred (4500) tons for each calendar month, based upon its aforesaid canning capacity of 18,000…