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Clupea sapidissima. Shad. Very numerous at all times. Found in the markets every mouth in 
greater or less ahundance. The supply greatly exceeds the demand, and the price is so low that 
the shad becomes availahle even for the impecunious Chinaman. The ilealers are obliged to 
restrict the receipts, otherwise the markets would he continually overrun. The prices i>aid hy 
the dealers vary from one-half a cent to 4 cents a pound, the average being 2 cents. As fine 
shad as are ever seen in the markets of the Eastern States, 'weighing from 4 to 7 pounds, may 
now often he bought at retail in San Francisco for 10 to 15 cents. The suirply comes chiefly 
from local fishermen in San Francisco Bay and from the Sacramento River. 
Stolephorus ringeiis. Anchovy. This was perhaps the most abundant fish in the markets during the 
lieriod of my visit. 
Oncorhynchus chouicha. Chinook salmon. The sales of fresh salmon in San Francisco amount to 
over 3,000,000 pounds annually, the larger part of which quantity consists of chinook salmon 
and comes from the waters of California. The fish are most common in the markets during April, 
May, and August, but are exposed in all the other months, excejit September, during which 
mouth there is a close season, when the salmon receipts are from points outside the State. The 
following statement of the quantities of salmon handled by the San Francisco dealers in each 
mouth in 1893 and 1894 (to ,Iune 30) has been prepared from the records of the dealers, and has 
been furnished by the California Fish Commission, through Mr. John P. Babcock, chief deputy: 
Statement of the receipts of California fresh salmon hy the San Francisco dealers. 
Months. 
1893. 
1894. 
Pounds. 
137, 460 
93, 203 
139, 401 
374, 478 
325, 170 
70,216 
149,217 
575, 609 
Pounds. 
128, 556 
103, 801 
163, 131 
211,552 
242, 126 
138, 675 
249, 753 
183, 789 
155, 090 
135, 455 
84, 084 
Total 
2, 588, 901 
1, 071, 925 
* Salmon handled by minor dealers, whose monthly receipts can not be shown separately. 
Data are available showing for much the larger part of the salmon receipts the sources 
whence they came. The Sacramento basin furnishes more than two-thirds the quantity handled. 
Eel River, in Humboldt County, and the ocean adjacent to Point Reyes also sujtply a consider- 
able proportion. The monthly receipts, specified by localities, are shown in the following table : 
Statement for a part of the fresh-salmon receipts in San Francisco, showing in pounds the localities from 
which the fish came. 
Months. 
1893. 
1894. 
Sac- 
ramento 
River. 
Hum- 
boim 
County. 
Ocean. 
All other 
rivers. 
Total. 
Sac- Hum- 
raraento boldt 
River. | County. 
Ocean. 
All other 
rivers. 
Total. 
January 
February 
March 
Pounds. 
20, 708 
55, 306 
117, 334 
346, 053 
309, 904 
44, 196 
17, 382 
515, 701 
Pounds. 
110, 574 
33,616 
6,150 
Pounds. 
Pounds, 
5, 058 
1, 189 
0, 292 
. 1,895 
Pounds. 
136, 400 
90, 111 
129, 776 
347, 948 
310, 636 
60, 862 
122, 903 
544, 773 
Pounds. 
28, 530 
38, 398 
129, 191 
175, 651 
203, 741 
120, 146 
Pounds. 
96, 485 
50, 557 
11, 265 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
5, 753 
13, 031 
3,069 
Poxinds. 
125,015 
94, 708 
153, 487 
178, 720 
205, 330 
126, 277 
672 
16, 666 
105, 521 
29, 072 
1,589 
6, 131 
182, 139 
39, 628 
47, 946 
40, 873 
143, 049 
99, 303 
223, 012 
182, 677 
147, 249 
Total 
1, 096, 417 
433, 565 
151, 931 
14, 434 
2, 296, 347 
695, 657 
158, 307 
7, 720 
21,833 
883, 537 
