128 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
at $21,912, consisting mostly of chinook and silver salmon. At 
Crescent City, situated on the Pacific Ocean, some fishing for erabs 
was followed. most of the men belonging in San Francisco. The 
output of salmon since 1904 shows a noticeable increase for the county. 
The lack of railroads in the county, however, serves as a bar to any 
great extension of the fishery industries. 
Tehama County.—The fishing in this vicinity is done entirely in 
the Sacramento River, the latter flowing through the central part 
of the county. Aside from a couple of drift gill nets at Corning, 
seines are the only form of apparatus used. The total output of the 
county in 1915 was 186,839 pounds, valued at $13,221, as compared 
with 176,079 pounds, valued at $7,003 in 1904. The fishing is 
followed entirely for chinook salmon, a few other species, such as 
striped bass, catfish, shad, and sturgeon, being taken incidentally. 
Mendocino County.—The fishing in this county is centered mainl 
at Fort Bragg, the only coast town of the county situated on a stil 
road. The output of the county in 1915 amounted to 185,535 
pounds, valued at $10,512. No returns are shown for this county 
in 1904, as the railroad to Fort Bragg had not then been constructed. 
The leading species are chinook and silver salmon, rockfishes, and 
flounders. Some abalone and mussels are also taken. ‘Trolling 
is followed to a considerable extent in the ocean off Fort Bragg 
from June to the middle of September, men from other counties also 
engaging in thefishery. Some trawl-line fishing for rockfishes, flound- 
ers, and ‘‘lingcod”’ is followed in the ocean during March, April, and 
May whenever the weather permits the men to get out. During the 
fall and winter of 1915 some silver salmon were taken with gill nets 
in afew of the small rivers of the county, but net fishing was pro- 
hibited in these streams after that year. 
Yolo County.—The decline in the fisheries of this county between 
1904 and 1915 was from 341,500 pounds, valued at $12,030, to 249,553 
pounds, valued at $10,448, showing a greater proportionate decline 
in quantity than in value. Considerably more ‘aes one-half the catch 
was made with drift gill nets and the remainder with fyke nets and 
seines. The most important species are chinook salmon, catfish, 
shad, hardhead, and striped bass. The first-named species made 
up about 45 per cent of the value of the entire eatch. Broderick, 
across the Sacramento River from Sacramento, is the most important 
fishing locality in the county. One wholesale firm located there 
buys a considerable proportion of the catch, the remainder being 
sold to dealers in Sacramento. 
Sonoma County.—There is a greater variety of fishing at Bodeja 
than at any locality in the county, several different forms of ap- 
paratus being used. Among the important products taken in the 
county are abalone, including pearls and blisters, surf fish, rock- 
fishes, chinook salmon, soft clams, crabs, perch, hard clams, and 
crawfish, the last named beng taken in the Russian River several 
miles above its mouth. The total output of the county in 1915 
amounted to 243,150 pounds, valued at $9,325. No fishing was re- 
ported in this county in’'1904. Lack of railroad facilities to the 
coast probably accounts for the slow growth of the fisheries of the 
county. 
Butte County.—The output of this county in 1915 amounted to 
82,800 pounds, valued at $6,720, or less than one-half in quantity and 
