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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



fishermen iu regard to sturgeons, as well as their system of traps and tightly- woven nets, is nothing 

 more nor less than wanton destruction. Already the young salmon, sturgeon, and trout are becom- 

 ing scarce, and unless measures are speedily taken to suppress this wholesale destruction by the 

 Chinese a scarcity of fish may be apprehended. The Chinese fishing companies are continually/ 

 sending to China an average of $12,000 worth of dried fish and shrimps per month. The Italian 

 and other union fishermen have been fishing on the California coasts, bays, and rivers for over at, 

 quarter of a century, never giving cause for a complaint about their trade. They have adopted 

 the same system of fishing practiced iu the Mediterranean Sea, which system, above all others, 

 insures the non-destruction of small fish. The Italians and other union fishermen have no ill-feeling; 

 against the Chinese fishermen; neither do they fear their competition. All that they desire is a> 

 less destructive system of fishing on the part of the Chinese, and a law which will compel all the 

 fishermen to adopt a similar system of fishing."* 



STATISTICS OF FISH TBADK OF SAN FRANCISCO. The following estimate of the amount of fish 

 sold in San Francisco for the years 1S79-'80 was made with great care by Mr. Garibaldi, bookkeeper 

 for Pardiui & Silvestra, fish dealers: 



Salt salmon ............................................... . ............................ barrels of 200 pounds.. 



Salt salmon ........................................................................ half-barrels of 100 pounds.. 



1,300 



3, 'JUD 



........................................................................ .. , 



Smoked salmon ..................................................................................... pounds. . 140, Ol'l) 



Salt herring ...................................................................... half-barrels of 100 pounds.. 2,100 



Smolied herrins ...................................................................................... boxes. - 25, 000 



Smoked halibut ..................................................................................... pounds . . 12, 000 



Siu'kiTs. chubs, and pike ...................................................................................... 80, 000 



Statement of (lie coast fisheries of San Francisco County, showing the number of fithermcw, tlie amount of capital invested, 



and tlie quantities and rallies of tlie products. 



' San Francisco Weekly Bulletin, January 6, 1878. 



