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The following table gives the statistics of the wholesale trade of 

 Oregon in 1922: 



Investment, persons engaged, and wages paid in the wholesale fish trade of Oregon in 



1922 



FISHERIES OF CALIFORNIA 



In 1922, California was the leading fish-producing State on the 

 Pacific coast. There were 9,173 persons engaged in fishing and 

 related industries; 209 vessels engaged in fishing; 53 vessels engaged 

 in transporting fish; 1,297 power boats and 292 rowboats and sail- 

 boats engaged in fishing; an investment of $13,047,414 in vessels, 

 boats, fishing apparatus, shore property, and canneries; and a pro- 

 duction of 191,126,852 pounds of fishery products, with a value to 

 the fisherman of $6,773,981. Of this production 175,779,868 pounds, 

 valued at $5,884,156, were fish; 5,310,609 pounds, valued at $456,970, 

 were shellfish; and the remaining 10,036,375 pounds were whale 

 products, valued at $432,855. 



Of the fishes pilchards or sardines, furnishing the raw material for 

 a valuable canning industry, were most important, producing 

 92,114,542 pounds, valued at $1,381,008. Albacore and tuna, equally 

 important as raw material for canning, produced 25,252,392 pounds, 

 valued at $1,269,417. The production of salmon amounted to 

 7,236,580 pounds, valued at $590,509, consisting mostly of chinooks 

 but including a few silver salmon. A portion of the salmon was 

 canned, though considerable quantities entered the fresh-fish trade. 

 Bonito and skipjack yielded 11,648,413 pounds, valued at $578,150, 

 most of which was also canned. Flounders followed in importance, 

 the production being 4,742,819 pounds, valued at $470,813. In- 

 cluded in this item is the flounder known to trade as " California 

 halibut," of which there were reported 3,068,913 pounds, valued at 

 $419,867. Barracuda yielded 6,284,065 pounds, valued at $439,817; 

 sole, 6,949,557 pounds, valued at $211,800; rockfishes, 4,219,650 

 pounds, valued at $205,239; and white sea bass, or squeteague, 

 2,904,054 pounds, valued at $176,993. The yield of cod, caught by 

 California vessels fisliing in Alaska waters and landing their salted 

 product in San Francisco, amounted to 1,680,000 pounds, valued at 

 $84,000. 



Mackerel, yeUowtail, striped bass, shad, smelts, "lingcod," rock 

 bass, mullet, anchovies, and kingfish, named in order of the value 

 of their jneld, each produced less than $76,000 and over $10,000 

 worth of products. Some 20 other kinds of fish, each having a yield 



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