GEOGEAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



The statistics of the fisheries of the Pacific coast are detailed iu the following statements: 



Summary statement of persons employed. 



Persons employed. 



Number. 



Fishermen 11,613 



Shoremen 5, 190 



Total ; 16.803 



Detailed statement of capital invested and apparatus employed. 



Apparatus specified. _ Number. Value. 



Vessels (5,463.42 tons) 5C $346,450 



Boats 5,547 404,695 



Other apparatus, including outfits 407, 238 



Cash capital and shore property 1, 330, 000 



Total 2,748,383 



Detailed statement oftlie quantities and rallies of the products. 



Products specified. Quantity. fl"*,*^ 



Sea-otter skins nnmher.. 6,075 $603,750 



Seal-skins do 155,718 1,540,912 



Seal-flesh pounds.. 1,000,000 10,000 



Whalebone do 61,000 122,000 



Whaleoil gallons.- 158,685 80,150 



Fish pounds fresh..' 178,048,920 a 4, 596, 330 



Crabs and other crustaceans pounds.. 2,500,000 66,358 



Oysters and other mollusks 138, 250 



Marine salt pounds.. 60,400,000 302,000 



Other products b 25, 000 



Total... 7,484,750 



a Including enhancement in the value of salmon in process of canning, 

 $2,345,547. 



b Including fish oil, seal oil. seaweed, and eggs of sea-birds. 



B. CALIFORNIA. AND ITS FISHERY INTERESTS. 



215. STATISTICAL RECAPITULATION. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The fisheries of the California coast, which are to be considered 

 in detail in the following pages, are summed up in the two tables given below. The first, which 

 is the result of a combination of the county tables given further on, shows the coast fisheries, 

 properly so called. They are carried on within a few miles of the shore by means of small vessels 

 or boats too frail to face the dangers of the open sea. These are of diverse patterns, and the pre- 

 dominating types come from the central seats of antipodal civilizations. Side by side with the 

 Chinese junk may be found the lateen-rigged sloop of the Mediterranean. The presence of boats 

 of these kinds is explained by the fact, which will hereafter appear, that most of the fisher folk are 

 either Chinese or Europeans of the Romanic races. Italians and Portuguese are very numerous, 

 and, if we may trust the etymology of the word, it is to the former nationality that the invention 

 of the lateen sail, the roile latino, as the French plainly call it, must be credited. Those who man 



