FISHERIES OF CALIFORNIA FISHERMEN IN MEXICAN WATERS. 9 



1911. Dye, Alexander V. 



Mexican fishing concessions granted. Daily Consular and Trade Reports, 

 Department of Commerce and Labor, for July 3, 1911, No. 154, p. 14 

 Washington. 

 Concession granted by the Mexican Government to a Ashing company 

 giving them the right to establish fisheries of shrimps, lobsters, turtles, 

 cuttlefish, oysters, and all scale fish within certain areas. The company 

 agreed to pay into the Federal treasury |1.25 U. S. currency for each 

 2,200 pounds of fresh fish, shrimps, lobsters, etc.; $2.50 for each 2,200 

 pounds of salt fish, fresh oysters, and canned shrimps; and $5 for each 

 2,200 pounds of canned fish and oysters produced by the company. 



1916. TowNSEND, Charles H. 



The Guadalupe fur seal. A contribution to its history. Zoological Society 

 Bulletin, March 1916, Vol. XIX, No. 2, pp. 1330-1331. New York. 



Note on the number of fur seals formerly found on Guadalupe and San 



Benita Islands. 

 Voyage of the Albatross to the Gulf of CaUfomia in 1911. Bulletin, Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, Vol. XXXV, Art. XXIV, pp. 399-476. 

 New York. 



Fisheries and fishery resources are discussed on pp. 433^58. 



1917. Chapman, W. E. 



The shrimp industry at Mazatlan. Daily Consular and Trade Reports, 

 Department of Commerce, for August 24, 1917, No. 198, pp. 730-731. 

 Washington. 



States niunber of shrimp fisheries in operation; tells how the shrimp are 



caught, different methods of preserving, and output of American canning 



plant and difiiculties attending the business. 



Smith, Hugh M. 



[Statistics of the 1915 canvass of the fisheries of the Pacific coast States.] 



Report, U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries, for 1917, pp. 34-39. Washington. 



1918. Chapman, W. E. 



Commercial fisheries of the Mexican west coast. Daily Consular and Trade 

 Reports, Department of Commerce, for June 13, 1918, No. 138, pp. 1004- 

 1007. Washington. 

 A short re\iew of a report prepared by A. Russel Crowell, entitled "Com- 

 mercial fishes on the Mexican west coast." Contains list of commercial 

 fishes, their relative abundance, time of appearing, etc. 

 Genaro, Estrada. 

 El trabajo de los Pescadores de perlas en la Baja California. [The work of 

 the pearl fishermen of Lower California.] Boletin de Industria, Comercia 

 y Trabajo, Departmento de Trabajo, Tomo I, No. 3, Septiembre 1918, pp. 

 75-81. Mexico. 

 1922. Van Denburgh, John. 



The reptiles of western North America. Vols. I and II. Published by the 

 California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 

 Vol.11, "Snakes and Turtles," contains information regarding turtles. 



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