206 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



The names, rig, and tonnage of the New liedt'ord whaling tleet are 

 shown for the years 1890, 1891, and 1892 in the following table : 



Name. 



Alaska 



Andrew Hicks 



Alice Knowle.s 



Andrew Barker 



Belvedere 



Chas. W. Morgan . . 



California 



Capo Horn Pigeon . . 

 Frances A. Barstow 



Horatio 



Josepliine 



Lagoda 



■ Mermaid 



Navarro 



Ocean 



Eeiudeer 



Sea Kanger 



Tamerlane 



Triton 



William Baylis 



William Lewis 



Rig. 



Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 



Str .. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Brig . 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Str .. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark. 

 Bark . 

 Bark. 

 Str .. 



Net ton- 

 nage. 



323. 



287. 

 287. 

 361. 

 339. 

 298. 

 348. 

 201. 

 121. 

 321. 

 384. 

 352. 

 259. 

 171. 

 274. 

 319. 

 259. 

 353. 

 251. 

 308. 

 332. 



Tears engaged. 



1890. 1891. 1892 



X6 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 



X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 X 

 Xa 



a Lost. 



6 Condemned. 



Data are at hand for a very interesting presentation of the nnmber 

 of each kind of whale taken during the years 1890, 1891, and 1892 by 

 the vessels belonging in San Francisco and New Bedford, respectively. 

 The variations in the comparative abundance of the different whales, 

 as shown by the numbers killed, are suggestive and instructive : 



Numher and kind of whales taken in 1890, 1891, and 1892 hy the American whaling fleet 

 making headquarters at San Francisco. 



THE OYSTER INDUSTRY. 



The oyster industry centering at San Francisco is one of the most 

 imiDortant branches of the fishing industry of California. San Fran- 

 cisco firms, witli extensive beds of native and eastern oysters in San 

 Francisco Bay, are the only planters of oysters in California. Each 

 fall and spring seed oysters in car-load lots are brought from the 

 Atlantic Coast and planted in the bay. Some years as many as 100 car- 

 loads, averaging 90 barrels of seed oysters each, are transplanted. A 

 limited amount of the small-sized native oysters are also brought from 

 beds in AVashington. Tlie latter are planted solely to keep them fresh 

 and near at hand when desired. If it were not for the constant plant- 

 ing of seed oysters the beds would soon be exhausted, the natural 

 projiagation not keeping \\\} with the demand. 



