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guese Bend, 2 miles east of Point Vicente, conditions are favorable for 

 collecting at low spring tides, and some of it has been done at both places. 

 There are dredging stations a short distance out from both of these 

 points. 



Point Fermin forms the western boundary of San Pedro Bay, which, 

 with San Pedro Harbor, has become Los Angeles Harbor, with extensive 

 sea walls or breakwaters to provide protection in all weathers. The outer 

 breakwater, especially that part of it toward Point Fermin, has devel- 

 oped a rich fauna to be reached by low-tide collecting. In the harbor it- 

 self the hull of Velero III in dry dock at Craig's served as a collecting 

 station. Anaheim Slough, near Seal Beach, was at one time a fine col- 

 lecting area, but the changes that have been made in developing the area 

 have destroyed much of the fauna. Dredging stations extend out from 

 Seal Beach and Sunset Beach as far as the entrance of Los Angeles 

 Harbor. 



From Los Angeles Harbor the shore extends 70 miles in a gentle 

 curve to Point La Jolla. It is low and sandy throughout, along the shore 

 and for some distance out from shore, with few rocky projections and 

 with no indentations that can be called bays, with the exception of the 

 small, shallow Newport Harbor. The sandy bottom shore area is rather 

 definitely marked off from the area farther from shore, and the increase 

 in depth from this line is rapid. 



Certain of the rocky projections at Corona del Mar, Laguna, and 

 La Jolla have served for shore collecting. A series of dredging stations 

 extend for 10 or 12 miles from Huntington Beach, Newport, and Laguna 

 Beach. A bank that comes to about 60 fathoms from the surface midway 

 between Dana Point and the eastern end of Santa Catalina Island has 

 received considerable attention with both dredge and tangles. 



From Point La Jolla the shore extends southward, 1 1 miles, to Point 

 Loma, the western boundary of San Diego Bay. No collecting has been 

 done in this stretch except for some shore work in Mission Bay, about 

 midway between the two points. It is much in the nature of a large la- 

 goon, and the fauna seems to be going the same way as it is in Anaheim 

 Slough. 



Lying some distance off the shore that extends from Point Vicente to 

 Point Loma are the four islands that make up the Santa Catalina group, 

 or the Southern Channel Islands. They do not form a linear series as the 

 Santa Barbara Islands do, and no two of them are near each other. The 

 main axis of each extends in a northwest-southeast direction. In general 



