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Oar departure front San Diego on the afternoon of Saturday, the i6th 
of July, augured wall for the success of the cruise. It was one of those 
perfect California days you hear tell of. The following afternoon found us at 
anchor off Gedro® Island, Lower California. In a comparatively short time 
37 fish were secured by the fishing parties, besides some 200 others which 
were taken over the side by members of the crew using hand lines. Among 
these was numbered a 120-pound black sea bass or jew fish caught on a light 
20-pound test line. Although groupers and sea bass of several species were 
plentiful, California yell owt ails formed an important part of the day's catch 
in the fish-boats. Some fossils from an outcrop near the landing place on 
the east side of the island and a number of species of littoral marine life 
were secured by the collecting party on shore. 
The next three days In succession were spent at Magdalena Bay, July 
IS; off Punta Gorda, Cape San Lucas, July 19; and Socorro Island, July 20. 
Magdalena Bay the only white sea bass, 
on nobilis, of the 
cruise was captured. The fishing was fair, a 60-pound grouper and a 38-pound 
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yellowtail also being taken. The dredging 
i-t-hene. On the sandy, weedy bottom of the Bay, inside the entrance to the 
northward, in 10 to 15 fathoms, an almost incredible number of araphipod 
crustaceans were discorered. The water in the buckets used to transport the 
dredged material to the laboratory aboard the IKTOTQK became covered with a 
thick film or “scum* 1 of these small shrimp-like organisms. In the portion 
of the Bay worked over they must have been literally as numerous as the grains 
of sand on the bottom. Dr. Schmi lA-fcjaiia, me .. that he never seen so many 
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amphipods in one place before. -She Museum amphlpod specialist. also was moved 
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