74 U. S. BFREAU OF FISHERIES. 



Pounds of Fish Frozen Monthly, by Species for 1921 and by Total for 1920. 



Species. 



Bluefish 



Butterfish 



Clscoes 



God, hake, pollock, and 



haddock 



Croaker 



HaUbut 



Herring 



Lake trout 



Mackerel 



Rockfishes 



Sableflsh 



Salmon 



Seabass 



Shad 



Shad roe 



Smelt, culachon,etc 



Squeteagues 



Squid 



Whitefish 



Whiting 



Miscellaneous 



Jan. 15. 



2,000 



7,000 



45,000 



172,000 

 2,000 



303,000 



427,000 



81,000 



81,000 



7,000 



4,000 



344,000 

 5,000 

 1,000 



Total 1921 . 

 Total 1920 



253,000 

 6,000 



19,000 

 148,000 



36, 00 

 900, 000 



Feb. 15. 



1,000 



7,000 



38,000 



39,000 



2,000 



153,000 



205, 000 



1,000 



141,000 



58, 000 

 129,000 



12,000 



177, 000 

 8,000 

 20,000 

 38,000 

 120,000 

 621,000 



2,843,000 

 2,273,744 



1,770,000 

 2,630,482 



Mar. 15. 



6,000 



69,000 

 72, 000 



344,000 

 89,000 



4,000 

 94,000 

 15, 000 

 52,000 

 60,000 



1,000 

 12,000 

 15,000 

 13, 000 



4,000 



136, 000 



3,000 



1,424,000 



2,413,000 

 2,465,375 



Apr. 15. 



14,000 

 47,000 



915,000 

 288,000 

 31,000 

 25,000 

 10,000 

 40,000 

 41,000 



5,000 

 3,000 



487,000 



11,000 



117,000 



664,000 



2,698,000 

 3, 687, 538 



May 15. 



22,000 

 14,000 

 61,000 



126,000 



11,000 



2,045,000 



1,671,000 



145,000 



1,114,000 



14,000 



110,000 



345, 000 



14,000 



175,000 



36,000 



12,000 



44,000 



1,791,000 



12,000 



786,000 



1,076,000 



9,624,000 

 10,094,367 



June 15. 



19,000 



2,000 



292,000 



114,000 



108,000 



1,455,000 



1,559,000 



125,000 



109,000 



8,000 



66,000 



1,250,000 



33,000 



46,000 



19,000 



1,194,000 



261,000 



272,000 



2,016,000 



1,143,000 



10,151,000 

 12,761,791 



July 15. 



S,000 

 299,000 

 273,000 

 289,000 

 599,000 

 965,000 



9,845,000 

 13,620,232 



Species. 



Bluefish 



Butterfish 



Ciscoes 



Cod, hake, pollock, and had- 

 dock 



Croaker 



HaUbut 



Herring 



Lake trout 



Mackerel 



Rockfishes 



Sablefish , 



Salmon , 



Seabass 



Shad 



Shad roe 



Smelt, eulaehon, etc 



Squeteagues 



Squid 



Whitefish. 



Whiting 



Miscellaneous 



Total 1921. 

 Total 1920 



Aug. 15. 



180,000 



203,000 



1,875,000 



95,000 



93,000 



1,363,000 



632,000 



93,000 



105,000 



4,000 



339,000 



2,182,000 



4,000 



28,000 



65,000 

 190,000 



53,000 



207,000 



464,000 



1,181,000 



9,356,000 

 11,803.606 



Sept. 15. 



341,000 



243,000 



1,076,000 



617,000 



423,000 



1,937,000 



215,000 



192,000 



2,000 



655,000 



1,892,000 



9,000 



19,000 



16,000 



462,000 



7,000 



357,000 



160,000 



1,367,000 



9,990,000 

 11,168,810 



Oct. 15. 



91,000 



347,000 



1,394,000 



286, 000 



31,000 



872,000 



980,000 



910,000 



212,000 



1,000 



121,000 



1,637,000 



9,000 



1,000 



9,000 



7,000 



3,000 



245,000 



589,000 



2,124,000 



9,869,000 

 9,711,800 



Nov. 15. 



77,000 



22,000 



1,157,000 



186,000 



61,000 



629,000 



1,272,000 



854,000 



201,000 



8,000 



34,000 



153,000 



9,000 



12,000 



3,000 



18,000 



640,000 



441,000 



2,396,000 



8,173,000 

 9,750,844 



Dec. 15. 



7,727 



6,112 



572,315 



150, 154 



1,439 



378, 803 



124,671 



9,995 



118,684 



3,255 



13,548 



133,619 



30,249 



400 



45,753 

 13,253 

 11,311 

 48,900 

 196,047 

 575,657 



2,441,892 

 4,005,000 



Total. 



932,727 



959,112 



8,649,315 



1,992,154 



341,439 



10,773,803 



9,827,671 



2,501,995 



2,694,684 



77,255 



1,677,548 



10,033,619 



132,249 



355,400 



73,000 



610,753 



2,230,253 



2,943,311 



2,403,900 



5,527,047 



14,436,657 



79,173,892 

 93,973,589 



FISHERIES OF CALIFORNIA IN 1921. 



Through the courtesy of the CaUfornia Fish and Game Commission 

 the bureau has received copies of its monthly sheets showing the 

 catch of fish, by species and oy locahties, for the calendar year 1921. 

 These have been compiled by species and by months, as shown in 

 the table following the discussion. 



In 1921 the catch of the fisheries amounted to 127,728,623 pounds, 

 as compared wdth 212,635,075 pounds in 1920, a decrease of 84,906,452 

 pounds, or 39.93 per cent. Following are the principal products: 

 Pilchards, 59,332,305 pounds; albacore and tuna, 19,831,680 pounds; 

 flounders, 8,429,595 pounds; salmon, 7,990,932 pounds; rockfishes, 

 4,641,156 pounds; barracuda, 4,588,900 pounds; mackerel, 2,914,613 

 pounds; yellowtail, 2,139,626 pounds; white sea bass or squeteague, 

 2,069,544 pounds; anchovies, 1,946,881 pounds; abalones, 1,481,170 

 pounds; bonito or skipjack, 1,376,712 pounds; sablefish, 1,022,556 

 pounds; and shad, 862,897 pounds. 



