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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



Industries related to the fisheries of California, 1929 — Continued 



MANUFACTURING 



Items 



Establishments 



Persons engaged: 



Proprietors 



Salaried employees 



Wage earners 



Total— -. 



Paid to salaried employees 



Paid to wage earners... 



Total salaries and wages 



Number 



95 



378 



6,503 



6,976 



$1, 004, 341 

 3, 665, 902 



4, 670, 243 



Products 



Salted: 



Cod, dry-salted ' pounds.. 



Salmon, mild-cured do 



Sardines do 



Other do 



Smoked -do 



Dried; 



Shrimp do 



Other products ...do — 



Canned: 



Sardines standard cases 2.. 



Tuna and tunalike fishes do 



Mackerel do — 



Miscellaneous ^ 



By-products: 



Fish meal, scrap, and flour 



tons.. 



Fish and whale oils, .gallons.. 

 Miscellaneous *. 



Total. 



Quantity 



1,622,000 

 951, 225 

 352, 095 

 184, 017 

 325, 791 



138, 097 

 541,914 



3,831,215 



1, 504, 306 



692, 451 



45, 741 

 7, 240, 484 



Value 



$82, 510 



286, 000 



17, 148 



23,553 



99, 348 



16, 451 

 21, 677 



11,996,997 



9, 873, 453 



2, 428, 058 



238, 445 



2, 414, 842 



3, 220, 885 



261, 332 



30, 980, 699 



i Cod were salted in Alaska waters. 



' A standard case contains forty-eight 1-pound cans of sardines and mackerel, or forty-eight H-pound 

 cans of tuna and tunalike fishes. 



3 Includes canned salmpn, shad, shad roe, barracuda fish cakes, abalone, squid, and fish for cat and dog 

 food. 



< Includes liquid glue, pilchard scales, kelp products, and crushed-shell products. 



HISTORICAL REVIEW 



Fifteen general surveys have been made for statistics of the fisheries 

 of the Pacific Coast States during the 42 years from 1888 to 1929. 

 The catch for 1888 amounted to 87,043,000 pounds. Since that time 

 the catch has continued to increase, with the largest catch on record 

 shown for 1929, when 1,034,434,000 pounds were taken. Compara- 

 tive statistics for each of the more important species taken are shown 

 in the following tables: 



Fisheries of the Pacific Coast States, 1888 to 1929 



SUMMARY: By States 



[Expressed in thousands of pounds and thousands of dollars; that is, 000 omitted] 



Note. — Salt fish have been converted to the equivalent weight of fresh fish. All statistics for oysters 

 are now shown in pounds of meats. In previous reports the data from 1888 to 1918 usually included the 

 weight of the shells. 



