62 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
The extent of the fisheries in 1888 is shown in the following tables: 
Persons employed. 
Country. 
Nationality. 
Nativity. 
United States 
35 
Portugal 
5 
30 
Italy 
7 
17 
Spain 
4 
4 
Austria 
2 
2 
China 
74 
74 
Total 
127 
127 
Apparatus and capital. 
Designation. 
Number. 
Value. 
Junk (11 tons) 
1 
'$900 
Sailboats, lateen-rigged 
4 
3, 000 
Sailboats, sprit-rigged 
17 
1,400 
Small rowboats 
7 
175 
Chinese boats 
22 
4,400 
Purse seines 
14 
3, 500 
Drag and sweep seines 
6 
465 
Gill nets 
80 
2, 400 
Lines (including trawls, with 61,000 
hooks) 
533 
Shore property 
500 
* Total 
17, 273 
* Including outfit. 
Products and values. 
Species. 
Pounds. 
Value. 
Fresh salmon 
5, 000 
946, 326 
281, 147 
10 855 
$250 
47, 316 
14, 057 
515 
Other fresh fish 
Dried fish and squid 
Abalone shells 
Total 
1, 243, 328 
62, 138 
T9. FISHERIES OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. 
Geographical features .— The general trend of the seacoast of this 
county is northwesterly. The shore line is, however, in the form of a 
reflex curve, its southern end bordering the northern side of Monterey 
Bay, curving away nearly west to Santa Cruz, where it turns north- 
ward. Its length, following the curvature of the coast, is about 40 miles. 
In some places the shores are low, and the beaches are generally sandy 
or shaly. Jordan says that “ running parallel with and north of the 
beach are bluffs of considerable height ; these in some places are ex- 
tended as ledges or reefs under the sea. 71 The cliffs facing the sea are 
in many places wave- worn and vertical or nearly so, offering no shelter 
or landing place for even the smallest fishing boat. 
