612 GEOGRAPHICAL EEVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



Ophiodon elonaatus. Leptocottus armatus. 



Zaniolepis latipinnis. Hemilepidotus spinosus. 



Odontopyxis trispinosus. Poriclithys porosissimus. 



Srachyopsis verrucosus. M icrogadus proximus. 



Artedius megacephalus. Lycodopsis paucidens. 

 Artedius quadriseriatus. 



CHINESE PURSE-NET FISHING. The Chinese fishermen in San Francisco County devote their 

 attention to catching shrimp by means of purse-nets. Some small fish (herring, tomcod, sculpins, 

 &c.) are taken with the shrimp and afterwards salted and dried. The amount of all other fish 

 taken excepting shrimp is, however, inconsiderable. 



THE SHRIMP FISHERY. The Chinese settlement at Bay View, in South San Francisco, con- 

 sists of about twenty-four men, who, with one hundred seines and six junks in use, and five hauled 

 up for repairs on shore, are engaged in catching shrimp, and incidentally some fish. 



The seines are bag-shaped, deeper than wide, mostly about 10 by 25 feet, though some of them 

 are larger. The mesh is 1 to 1 inches above, diminishing gradually to J inch in the rear 

 part or bag, which, as in all Chinese nets, is closed with a "puckering string." The boats are 

 long, rather narrow and sharp, flat-bottomed, very thick-sided, and heavy, being built by the 

 Chinese themselves out of redwood lumber. They range from 12 to 25 feet in length. The 

 shrimp are, when caught, put into live-buckets made of basketware, with a covering of netting, also 

 home-made. As elsewhere, the opening in the netting is closed by a sphincter or puckering string. 

 These live shrimp are taken to the Vallejo-street market and sold at 5 cents per pound. Those 

 unsold are brought back and put into boiling brine. They are then taken out and put on the 

 ground to dry, being spread out and turned over with a sort of broom, with the broom part at an 

 angle with the handle, like a hoe. The ground is denuded of grass, and made bare and smooth, 

 like a croquet ground, for the purpose of drying the shrimp. When dry they are taken and 

 crushed under large wooden pestles, and then put through a fanning mill, which separates the 

 meat from the shells. The fanning-mill is constructed on precisely the same principle as the kind 

 used for winnowing grain. The edible part goes where the grain should, and the thin shrimp- 

 shells go oil' as chaff. The fanning-mill is built by the Chinese themselves, and is unpainted. 

 This machine is about 8 feet long and five feet high. The pulverized meats are shipped to China 

 or consumed in Chinatown. They are worth here 5 cents a pound. The shells are used for manure, 

 most of them being shipped to China and sent far inland for use on the tea plantations. The 

 shrimp shells are worth here about 25 cents per hundred weight. 



Some fishes are taken in the shrimp-nets, the chief species being the catfish and the tomcod. 

 The following species were noticed, all small individuals, excepting the sharks and rays, of which 

 no use is made : 



Leptocottus armatus. Heptrancliias indicus. 



Hicrogadus proximus. Osmerus thaleiclitliys. 



Paroplirys vetulus. Myliobatis californicus. 



Pleuronectes stdlntus. Nustdus canis. 

 Psettielitltys melanostictus. Vraptera linomlata. 



Cymatogastcr aggregatus. Syngnatltus griseolineatr.s. 



Stolephorus ringens. Triads semifasciatxs. 

 Jelly-fish sp. 



