80 FISniNG-GRODNDS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



are largely u-setl for taking rockfish. lu the bays seines are extensively used. Trolling and 

 stilllisliing in the kelp arc little practiced, because the fishes caught in this way are mostly 

 southern in their range. Between the rocky headland of Point Reyes and the entrance to the 

 Golden Gate is a long stretch of smooth sandy bottom at a considerable depth. The bottom here 

 swarms with flounders, and a mode of fishing is pursued analogous to the trawl-net fishing of 

 the x^tlantic — the fishing of the Paranzella. This mode of fishing is doubtless possible outside 

 the kelp at many places along the coast, but the markets elsewhere are too small to make it 

 profitable, excepting on a few small reefs in the neighborhood of the Farallones where rock-cod 

 abound, and at the mouth of Monterey Bay; and, beyond this stretch of deep water now fished by 

 the Paranzella, we can hardly say that any definite ofi'-shore fishing-grounds exist south of the 

 Straits of Juan de Fuca. Off the mouth of the Straits of Fuca, about eight miles northwest of 

 Cape Flattery, there is an extensive halibut bank, where the Indians take halibut in large 

 numbers, and which may some time become of importance to the white people. 



The channels among the islands in Puget Sound and to the northward are resorted to by 

 dogfish {Squalus), and the bays at certain seasons swarm with herring. In Alaska many banks 

 frequented by halibut and cod doubtless exist, but thus far the only ones developed to any 

 considerable extent are about the Shumagin Islands. 



