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HISTOEY AND METHODS OP THE FISHERIES. 



San Francisco codfish fleet of 1879. 



* A tender for the Pirate Cove station. She brought its catch and that of the Unga and the Nagay. The Nagay was lost in the spring 

 of 1880. 



tNumber estimated. 

 I All foreigners. 



In Professor Jordan's notes the number of seamen engaged in 1879 is given as 247; of these 

 about one-third are Americans, more than one-half are Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians, with a 

 sprinkling of Irish, English, Germans, Russians, and Portuguese. The nationality varies with 

 each vessel and cannot be more closely ascertained. 



The number of dories per vessel varies from nine to twenty-five. 



San Francisco codfish fleet 0/1880. 



