FISHERY INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 137 
Santa Barbara County.—The fisheries of this county produced 
638,600 pounds, valued at $41,130, in 1915 and are centered at Santa 
Barbara, where the only wholesale market in the county is located. 
Santa Barbara Channel, located off this county, is the northern 
limit of spiny lobsters. They are taken in considerable numbers 
by fishermen camping on the islands in the channel, chiefly Ana 
Capa and Santa Cruz, and also by some fishing from Santa Bar- 
bara. This fishery contributed about 50 per cent of the total value 
of the products for the county, the catch amounting to 158,300 
pounds, valued at $20,729. The gill-net fishery contributed about 
49 per cent of the total catch of the county. 
Orange County.—This county, located on the southern coast of 
the State, between the two important fishing counties of Los An- 
geles and San Diego, is much more thinly settled and is compara- 
atively unimportant in its fisheries. The fisheries are conducted 
from only two localities, Newpoit and Laguna Beach, and the 
products amounted to 988,980 pounds, valued at $38,702. The 
most important form of apparatus was seines, the catch of which 
was over 25 per cent of the total quantity, and over 30 per 
cent of the total value for the county. Smelt constituted the bulk 
of the catch with this apparatus, the catch of this species amounting 
to 226,000 pounds, valued at $11,300. The catch by lines, amount- 
ing to 261,380 pounds, valued at $8,356, ranked next in both quan- 
tity and value, and barracuda and rockfishes were the most im- 
portant species. The gill-net fishery, which amounted to 132,950 
pounds, valued at $4,795, was next in importance in value, with sea 
bass and barracuda the leading species. The catch with lampara 
nets was 198,000 pounds, valued at $4,920, and consisted: chiefly 
of rock bass and yellowtail. The trammel-net catch was all floun- 
ders and amounted to 132,250 pounds, valued at $6,308. Spiny 
lobsters, worth $2,093, and a small lot of hard clams were also taken 
by the fishermen of this county. : 
San Luis Obispo.—Although this county has quite an extensive 
coast line, it is very sparsely settled, and the commerical fisheries 
are of little importance when compared with some of the other 
coastal counties. Pismo and Morro are the only localities from 
which commercial fisheries are prosecuted. Clam forks, gill nets, 
and lines were the only forms of apparatus used. The total catch 
amounted to 197,856 pounds, valued at $16,420. The catch taken 
with lines was 85,000 pounds of rockfishes, valued at $3,400, which 
was greater in quantity than that with any other apparatus, but the 
value of the hard clams, taken with forks, amounted to more than 
55 per cent of the total value of that species for the State. The 
quantity of hard clams taken was 34,856 pounds, valued at $9,150. 
_ Ventura County.—The product of the fisheries of this county 
amounted to 106,765 pounds, valued at $5,443. Of the 27 counties 
in which commercial fisheries are conducted in California, this coun- 
ty is among the least important; there are only three counties in 
which the value of the catch was less than in Ventura, two of them 
being located on Sacramento River and one on the coast. The 
fishing is all done from Ventura, a small town of only a few thousand 
inhabitants, and the bulk of the catch consisted of smelt, taken 
with seines; flounders, taken with trammel nets; rockfishes and 
flounders, taken with lines; and spiny lobsters, which are always 
caught in pots. 
