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next iii order of importance. There are a few small places in addition, where scarcely any fishing 

 is done. 



No stationary apparatus is used by the fishermen of Santa Barbara. There are about fifteen 

 gill-nets, the greater number of them about 240 feet by 15 feet, having a 2-inch mesh. These are 

 chiefly used in winter, when the fish stay in deep water. Among the fishermen belong three or 

 four baskets of set lines, each with 146 hooks. They have six seines, averaging 300 feet by 12 

 feet, with a half-inch mesh. These are used chiefly from April to October. The best bait is craw- 

 fish flesh, and for the capture of crawfish bonito is preferred as bait; any flesh, fresh or salt, will 

 do. Their own species makes a very good bait. 



There are five small sail-boats at Santa Barbara. These are usually laid up from November 

 until March, the winter fishing being done in smaller boats with gill-nets. 'In the summer they 

 fish extensively for barracuda. 



The fishing is usually carried on between Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz Island, about 25 

 miles from shore, and also along the shore from Carpenteria to Los Pueblos, at which point the 

 hook-and-line fishing is said to be the best. 



Carpenteria is a small farming village, 12 miles east of Santa Barbara. Its name is derived 

 from the timber liveoak which was formerly very abundant there. The fisheries are of little 

 importance. Occasionally a man fishes from the wharf or drags a seine on the beach. 



Mr. A. Mclntyre, of Carpenteria, is a ship's carpenter by trade, and is chiefly engaged in the 

 building of fishing smacks. He does all the work himself, and in the past eight years has built 

 two, besides an abalone boat, and is now at work on the third a fishing boat of 4 tons burden. 

 These boats are the Restless, built 1877, now belonging to the fishermen on Santa Catilina, worth 

 $500 when new; the Virginia, built 1872, now gone to pieces, worth $1,000 when new; and the 

 Rosita, engaged somewhere in the freight and abalone business. When such work offers, Mr. 

 Mclntyre builds houses; spending time, otherwise not engaged, in boat-building. 



At Goleta, on the site of the former whale fishery, a little fishing is carried on with the seine. 



The fish are taken in Santa Barbara County, (a) in winter, near shore, by seining; (b) in gill- 

 nets, near shore; (c) by hook and line, in the kelp; (<7) by gill-net, off the islands; (e) by trolling, 

 in summer; (/) by hook and line from the wharf, in winter; (g) by hook and line, in summer; and 

 (li) by seining, near shore, in summer. The fish caught by trolling in summer are chiefly barra- 

 cuda, bouito, albicore, yellow-tail, jewfish, and sea-bass. 



The following list shows the comparative importance of the several fisheries of this county: 



Pounds. 



Santa Barbara 110,000 



Santa Cruz Islands 50,000 



Goleta 15,000 



Guadaloupo 2,000 



Lompoc 2,000 



Carpenteria 1,000 



And by species roughly as follows: 



Dilrara jacksoni 15 | 000 



Other surf-fish 20,000 



Barracuda 42,000 



Redfish 10,000 



Bonito, albicore, &c 18,000 



Smelt 8,000 



Flounders 5,000 



Rock cod 3,000 



Pompauo, &c 10,000 



