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GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES. 



fishermen iu regard to sturgeons, as well as their system of traps and tightly- woven nets, is nothing 

 more nor less than wanton destruction. Already the young salmon, sturgeon, and trout are becom- 

 ing scarce, and unless measures are speedily taken to suppress this wholesale destruction by the 

 Chinese a scarcity of fish may be apprehended. The Chinese fishing companies are conliuaally/ 

 sending to China an average of $12,000 worth of dried fish and shrimps per month. The Italian 

 and other union fishermen have been fishing on the California coasts, bays, and rivers for over a 

 quarter of a century, never giving cause for a complaint about their trade. They have adopted 

 the same system of fishing practiced in the Mediterranean Sea, which system, above all others, 

 insures the non-destruction of small fish. The Italians and other union fishermen have no ill-feeling 

 against the Chinese fishermen; neither do they fear their competition. All that they desire is a. 

 less destructive system of fishing on the part of the Chinese, and a law which will compel all the 

 fishermen to adopt a similar system of fishing."* 



STATISTICS OF FISH TKADTC OF SAN FRANCISCO. The following estimate of the amount of fish 

 sold in San Francisco for the years 1879-'80 was made with great care by Mr. Garibaldi, bookkeeper 

 for Pardini & Silvestra, fish dealers : 



Salt saluion .barrels of 200 pounds.. 1,300 



Salt salmon half-barrels of 100 pounds.. 3, 200 



Smoked salmon .pounds.. 140, OCO 1 



Salt herring half-barrels of 100 pounds.. 2, 100 



Smoked herring boxes.. 25,000 



Smoked halibut pounds.. 12,000 



Suckers, chubs, and pike 80,000 



Statement of the coast fisheries of San Francisco County, showing the number ofjhliermen, the amount of capital invested, 



and the quantities and rallies of the products. 



"San Francisco Weekly Bulletin, January 6, 1878. 



