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At Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, 56,247 pounds of chinook salmon 

 were taken by trolling in the open sea and shipped to San Francisco. 

 The combined catch on the Eel, Mad, Klamath and Smith rivers was: 

 1,649,189 pounds chinook and 286,719 pounds silver salmon. Of this 

 amount, 1,063,189 pounds were canned, 840,908 pounds were used fresh 

 and 32,000 pounds were mild cured. 



The total catch for the state was 9,298,203 pounds chinook and 

 286,719 pounds of silver salmon. In addition to this there were taken 

 in Eel and Mad rivers, 33,204 pounds of steelhead, which were marketed 

 fresh. 



The 1916 salmon catch for the six months ending June 30th was : 



Monterey and Santa Cruz 3,848,073 pounds. 



San Francisco Bay and lower rivers 983,979 pounds. 



Sacramento River above Colusa 149,080 pounds. 



Fig. 55. Loading 150 boxes of fish, principally salmon, at Monterey. 



Fairfield. 



Photograph by A. M. 



The salmon of the Sacramento River are apparently holding their 

 own, if we include the salmon taken in Monterey Bay and outside the 

 Golden Gate, as it is proper to do. While our figures for the catch of 

 Sacramento salmon for 1915-1916 are not up to the estimates of former 

 years, they are undoubtedly nearer the actual average yearly catch, as 

 figures in the past have been principally estimates with the usual ten- 

 dency to avoid underestimating the catch. The fall run on the Sacra- 

 mento has been less than the average for the past few years on account 

 of the greatly increased catch outside and in Monterey Bay. 



