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piincipal port in this district, is especially important for its pilchard 

 fisheries. The northern district is of least importance, with only 1 

 per cent of the total catch and 5 per cent of the total value. The 

 salmon fisheries are most important there, and the principal ports 

 are Fort Bragg, Eureka, and Requa. 



In the northern, San Francisco, and Monterey districts the fisheries 

 are prosecuted alongshore and in waters of the high seas adjacent to 

 the United States. Thus, all the fish landed in these districts are a 

 product of American fisheries. In the San Pedro and San Diego 

 districts fishing is followed not only along the shores of the United 

 States, but off the coast of Mexico. In 1927, 15 per cent of the 

 catch landed at San Pedro and 70 per cent of that landed at San 

 Diego, or a total of 62,127,741 pounds, were taken off the coast of 

 Mexico. This is 13 per cent of the total quantity of fish landed in 



PER CENT OF 

 PRODUCTION 



PER CENT OF TOTAL 



10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 



PER CENT OF 



Figure 4. — Percentage distribution of California fish catch, by .si)ecies, 1927 



California. Practically the entire catch taken off the Mexican coast 

 consisted of tuna and tunalike fish. 



CANNERY FISH 



During 1927 the fish-canning and fish by-products industries of 

 California gave employment to 286 salaried officers and employees, 

 who received $742,122; in addition, 3,755 wage earners — many of 

 them women— were employed in the fish-canning establishments 

 and received $2,824,680 in wages. This constitutes an average 

 annual wage of $752. The salaried officers and employees are em- 

 ployed the entire year, while the wage earners are employed only 

 during the canning season, which, in many instances, lasts only 

 four or five months of the year. 



In 1928 the value of all canned fishery pi"oducts and by-products 

 manufactured in California amounted to $23,901,587. In addition, 

 there was a pack of mild-cured salmon and salted cod prepared, with 

 an estimated value of $500,000, making the value of manufactured 

 products in California a})out one-third of that of all fishery products 

 manufactured in the United States during 1928. 



