130 FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 
fishery industries on shore; the value of shore property, fishing appa- 
ratus, boats, etc., was $2,041,401; and the protladle amounted to 
27,420,247 pounds, valued at $515,863. Including some chinook, 
chum, and silver salmon taken from Columbia River by a vessel from 
San Pedro, there were 33 species. 
The fisheries are centered in the southern part of the county, in 
Los Angeles Harbor at San Pedro, East San Pedro, and Wilmington, 
and at Long Beach. . 
Some fishing is also done from Redonda Beach, Santa Monica, and 
Venice, and a little from Catalina Island, although the greater part of 
that done at the last-named place is for sport. The present impor- 
tance of the county as a fishing center is due to the rapid growth of 
the tuna industry during recent years, although it has occupied a 
prominent place among the fishing counties of the State for a number 
of years because of the quantity of barracuda, flounders, rockfishes, 
baat other species taken. The bulk of the tuna is sold to the canneries, 
though at times some go to the wholesale dealers, who handle the 
other species, shipping them to various inland points. 
During the year 1915 there were 10 wholesale fresh-fish houses 
and 1 tuna cannery at San Pedro, 3 tuna canneries at Hast San Pedro, 
1 at Wilmington, and 5 at Long Beach. There were also a number 
of wholesale fresh-fish dealers at Los Angeles. A large percentage of 
the fishermen are Austrians, some Americans, and, in the tuna fishery 
especially, many are Japanese. 
Of the total catch 17,367,259 pounds, or nearly 63 per cent, were 
albacore or tuna, valued at $260,667. Other important catches 
were barracuda, 1,555,162 pounds, valued at $59,256; flounders, 
1,349,103 pounds, valued at $51,731; rockfishes, 690,131 pounds, 
valued at $21,882; yellowtail, 679,868 pounds, valued at $18,976; 
sea bass, 446,064 pounds, valued at $16,953, and bonito, 370,844 
pounds, valued at $10,840. 
Owing to the fact that the large catch of albacore is practically all 
taken by lines, these are by far the most important form of apparatus. 
The total catch of all species by lines was 18,518,522 pounds, valued 
at $300,417, of which 17,339,499 pounds, valued at $260,223, were 
albacore. Other important species in the line fishery are the rock- 
fishes, amounting to 690,131 pounds, valued at $21,882. 
The gill-net catch ranked next to that of the lines, amounting to 
1,911,649 pounds, valued at $66,996, of which 893,960 pounds, valued 
at $34,738, were barracuda. Considerable quantities of bonito, sea 
bass, and yellowtail were also taken by the gu nets. The lampara 
net also occupies a prominent place in the fisheries of the county, 
the catch amounting to 1,745,777 pounds, valued at $52,935, consist- 
ing chiefly of yellowtail and barracuda, The trammel net was next 
in importance, with a catch of 1,069,496 pounds, valued at $40,454, 
mostly flounders, known locally as ‘‘California halibut.” There has 
been quite an increase in the number of small fishing vessels hailing 
from Los Angeles County. During the year there were 38 of these 
of 5 tons net or more, with a total net tonnage of 343 and a value of 
$85,700, the majority being engaged in line fishing for albacore. 
The only seines fished from the county were purse seines, operated 
from six of these vessels, the catch consisting chiefly of barracuda 
and yellowtail, with some bonito, mackerel, sea bass, Spanish mack- 
erel, and albacore. The gill-net catch of the vessel fisheries was chiefly _ 
barracuda, and the trammel nets took only flounders. 
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