72 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
In Marin County, on San Francisco and Richardson’s Bays, are the 
important curing stations of California City audPescada Landing • and 
north of the former, at Point San Quentin, Point San Pedro, and 2 or 3 
miles northwesterly from the latter, are Chinese fishing camps. On the 
seacoast the chief fishing centers are Fisherman’s, Marshall, Hamlet, 
Tomales, and Point Reyes, on or near Tomales or Bodega Bays and on 
the line of the North Pacific Coast Railroad. Sausalito, the southern 
terminus of this road and just across the Golden Gate from San Fran- 
cisco, is an unimportant fishing point. 
Fishing grounds .. — The fishing grounds resorted to by the fishermen 
of San Francisco and vicinity cover an immense area, and are as varied 
in character and geographical location as the fisheries prosecuted upon 
them. They will be alluded to here only in a general way, as the limits 
of this review preclude extensive details. 
Pelagic fur-sealing is prosecuted in the open ocean off the coasts of 
the Pacific States (at varying distances from the land, but generally 
not exceeding 150 miles), thence along the coasts of British Columbia 
and Alaska. Seals are also followed into Bering Sea; but this ground 
can not be legally resorted to for pelagic sealing. The Pribilof Islands 
(St. Paul and St. George) have for many years been the most important 
ground in the world for the capture of fur seals. The right to take 
seals here (100,000 skins per year) has been controlled by the Alaska 
Commercial Company, of San Francisco, under a 20-year lease (expiring 
in 1889) from the United States Government. 
There is no systematic fishery for hair seals, sea lions, or walrus, but 
these are occasionally taken by fishermen sailing from San Francisco 
or by natives who hunt or fish in Alaskan waters for the large firms 
having their headquarters in this city. Since the capture of these ani- 
mals is a mere incident of fishery, so far as this locality is concerned, 
and as a discussion of the northern grounds frequented by them be- 
longs more properly to a consideration of the Alaskan fisheries, it only 
seems necessary here to mention the fact that the Farrallone Islands, 
off the mouth of the Golden Gate, and about 23 to 27 miles distant, sea- 
ward, are noted for having extensive rookeries of sea lions fZalophus 
calif ornianus and Eumetopias stelleri), among which the southern species 
( Z . californianus) largely predominates. 
The sea-otter fishery, which is practically under the exclusive control 
of capitalists in San Francisco, is carried on about the islands, ledges, 
and in the waters of Alaska. 
Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait are chiefly 
resorted to by the whalemen, though whales are also taken on some of 
the Pacific grounds and in the Japan and Okhotsk Seas. 
The Japan ground, which embraces the region “from the coast of 
Japan southeast to the Bonin Islands, across to 165° west longitude,” is 
occasionally resorted to, but the Okhotsk Sea is more commonly visited 
by whalers and is next in favor to the Arctic Ocean. In the season of 
