FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST IN 1899. 567 
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and San Francisco bays; prices dropped so low that little was left the 
shipper after charges were paid, the market being amply supplied direct 
from San Francisco vessels and boats at the wharf; shipments from 
points dependent on the railroads largely decreased, those from Marin 
County falling to about one-half those of 1895. 
Santa Cruz County.—The fisheries of this county are carried on 
from Santa Cruz and Capitola, the catch being made in Monterey 
Bay. As compared with 1895 there are few changes of note. The 
products show some falling off in quantity, caused by a smaller num- 
ber of fishermen being engaged. The principal item of decrease was 
134,325 pounds in the catch of sea bass. 
Localities occupied long by fishermen have of late vears become 
more valuable, and high rents have compelled them to look elsewhere, 
but their places are largely filled by tourists and sportsmen who find 
great sport in trolling for salmon during June, July, and August; at 
times 60 boats were thus engaged, the salmon catch by hook and line 
being 85,340 pounds. The salmon taken were all chinook, which 
refuse the hook or food after entering fresh-water streams. Monterey 
Bay appears to be the southern limit of migration for the salmon and 
shad. Seldom is a single specimen of either seen south of this bay, and 
at no other place on the Pacific coast do professional fishermen use 
hooks and lines in the salmon fisheries. 
An increased demand with enhanced prices has fully made up in 
yralues the losses from a decreased catch. A large local demand is 
supplied with a good variety of the best food-fishes found on the coast; 
any surplus is forwarded by express to San Francisco. 
Monterey County.—The fisheries of Monterey County embrace a 
large number of species of fine food-fish, also abalones, clams, mussels, 
squid, shark-fins from the sea, and frogs from the shore; to these are 
added whales, sea lions, starfish, sea-urchins, and alge. 
The products of 1895 amounted to 1,109,786 pounds of $20,406 value. 
As compared with these figures the product of 1899 show a gain of 
over 100 per cent in weight and 400 per cent in value as follows: 

Items. | Pounds. Value. 
Fresh fish ...........-- Loe Bt he 2 a mel Ae an nee ae | 1,346,783 | $45, 792 
nw anGopieelied fishes --2 are) eee: ee eee on Bal 209, 199 10, 224 
Miseeeliancous progucia’.......-/201..-.Mes..-.cs.lesseccececeees | 899, 830 24, 805 








ADT hens Se a eee Se Ree ace ey en ee ne ee ee | 2,455, 812 80, 821 


Of the fresh fish products 441,180 pounds were peddled through the 
interior, and 905,583 pounds expressed tc the San Francisco market. 
The dry and pickled fish, 100,824 pounds, with 622,740 pounds of dry 
squid, had a distribution extending to Honolulu, Japan, and China. 
The Japanese follow the abalone fishery, in which divers with diving 
