124 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
their outfit, at $354,375; 20 transporting vessels with a value, includ- 
ing their outfit, of $72,000; 1,429 gasoline boats valued at $1,351,110; 
1,169 other boats valued at $104,816; apparatus, in the shore and 
vessel fisheries, valued at $606,944 ;shore and accessory property with 
a value of $2,731,390 and working cash capital amounting to $448,809. 
The products of the fisheries of California in 1915 aggregated 
93,338,703 pounds, with a value to the fishermen of $2,506,702. 
This is an increase of about 44 per cent in quantity, but a decrease of 
about three-fifths of 1 per cent in value as compared with 1904. 
Among the items in the products of special importance may be men- 
tioned 7,303,933 pounds of chinook salmon, valued at $340,949; 
21,024,190 pounds of albacore, or tuna, valued at $316,103; 6,923,563 
pounds of flounders, valued at $209,766; 375,774 pounds, or 53,682 
bushels, of eastern oysters, valued at $165,573; 4,952,692 pounds of 
salted cod, valued at $161,695; 1,784,488 pounds of striped bass, 
valued at $146,928; 4,344,254 pounds of rockfishes, valued at 
$146,216; 892,392 Fg othe of spiny lobsters, valued at $130,119; 
1,414,155 pounds of crabs, valued at $128,434; 8,592,646 pounds of 
barracuda, valued at $124,870, and 5,761,929 pounds of sole, valued 
at $108,254. 
For statistics as to number of persons engaged, investment, and 
products of the fisheries of California in 1915, see table, page 51. 
FISHERIES BY COUNTIES. 
San Francisco County.—The fisheries of San Francisco County in 
1915 were more valuable than those of any other county in the State, 
the output amounting to 17,602,489 pounds, valued at $649,864. 
Among the leading species were codfish, eastern oysters, crabs, 
sole, rockfishes, flounders, striped bass, and chinook salmon. The 
codfish, amounting to 4,952,692 pounds, valued at $161, 695, were 
taken by three vessels owned im San Francisco and fishing in Alaskan 
waters. Practically all of the fishermen of this county live within 
the corporate limits of San Francisco, In 1915, 552 men were engaged 
in the shore fisheries and 116 on vessels of 5 net tons and over. 
majority of the fishermen, as well as wholesale dealers, are Italians. 
There were 290 gas boats, valued at $259,710; 35 rowboats, valued at 
$705; 68 house boats and scows, valued at $7,600; and 2 sailboats, 
valued at $500, employed in the fisheries of this county. Practically 
all of these boats were docked at Fishermens Wharf, San Francisco, 
the headquarters of the several fishery unions to which the owners 
of the boats belonged. 
The fishing from San Francisco is prosecuted both in the ocean and 
in San Francisco Bay. The trawl-line fishing for rockfishes and 
other species and the hoop-net fishing for crabs are followed entirely 
in the ocean, while the gill nets are fished both in the ocean and San 
Francisco Bay, and occasionally fishermen go as far as Suisun Bay. 
The leading species taken with this apparatus are sea bass, smelt, 
shad, chinook salmon, herring and carp. Seines are also fished in 
San Francisco Bay for white bait, anchovies, and sardines. Among 
other forms of apparatus used are lampara nets and bag nets, the catch 
consisting mainly of squid and shrimp. Theshrimp are taken mainly 
by Chinese fishermen. 
