FISHERIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 
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The small squid are not split or cleaned, but are simply spread out to 
dry in the same condition that they came from the water. 
The Chinese have a large flake yard at Point Alones, devoted chiefly 
to curing squid. Some of the flakes are placed on the ground, bu*3 the 
majority are elevated on posts 2 or 3 feet high, and resemble the codfish 
flakes in small fishing towns in New England. Here, in the height of 
the squid season, may be witnessed a busy scene. The squid are 
brought from the boats in baskets or whatever other receptacles may 
be convenient. Here and there are groups of Chinese or single indi- 
viduals, squatting upon the ground or bending over the elevated flakes, 
every one actively engaged in spreading the green squid or gathering 
up those already cured (see plate iy). When dried the squid are 
packed in bundles and covered with matting, each package containing 
about 135 pounds and upwards. They are sent by steamer to San Fran- 
cisco, where some are sold to the domestic trade and the remainder 
exported to the Sandwich Islands and China. 
The products of the abalone fishery are treated in the ordinary man- 
ner, the “meats’ 7 being dried and the shells prepared for shipment or 
local sale. Some of the Chinese find employment in gathering and sell- 
ing to tourists, in addition to abalone shells, all sorts of u sea trinkets, 77 
among which sea-urchins and Various small shells figure conspicuously. 
Sea moss is dried and packed in sacks holding about 147 pounds. 
The following tabulated statement, obtained from official records, 
through the politeness of the transportation companies, shows in detail 
the monthly shipments of fishery products at Monterey. All such ma- 
terial, except abalone shells and sea moss, is classified under the gen- 
eral term of fish ; but as fresh products are shipped by express over 
the railroad, and all others go by the less expensive steamer route, it 
is easy enough to separate the fresh fish from the cured. 
Monthly shipments of dry and fresh fish from Monterey to San Francisco in 1888. 
Month. 
Cured fish by steamer. 
Fresh fish by railroad. 
Packages. 
Pounds. 
Packages. 
Pounds. 
January 
tl 
2, 830 
386 
50, 121 
February 
9 
1, 100 
241 
30, 171 
March 
6 
460 
618 
81, 948 
April 
8 
1,400 
673 
88, 840 
May 
187 
25, 255 
831 
110, 559 
June 
769 
121,852 
622 
83, 360 
July 
83 
10,215 
682 
89, 508 
August 
256 
31, 385 
1, 207 
172, 717 
September 
468 
67, 090 
815 
106, 401 
October 
46 
5, 075 
1,088 
150, 346 
November 
58 
15, 595 
627 
87, 950 
December 
104 
15, 920 
571 
78, 430 
Total 
2, 015 
*298,177 
8, 361 
1 1, 130, 351 
* Including the weight of 2,015 packing boxes; net weight, 281, 147 pounds. In 
addition to these quantities of fish, 11 sacks of abalone shells, weighing 855 pounds, 
and 60 sacks of sec moss, weighing 8,820 pounds, were also shipped by steamer. 
t Including 209,025 pounds, the weight of 8,361 packing boxes, the net weight of the 
fish being 921,326 pounds. 
