The West Coast , Volume 2, Number 4, February 1930

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HEN you're buying cans to package your I Ill Wtuna, your sardines or' salmon, consider the company as well as the cans you buy. Is it a company whose service doesn't stop with the delivery -but goes right on-helping you with your problems, counseling with you ? In short a company that orfers the kind of servic.: that can't be measured in dollars and cents?

Canco orfers a great deal more than fine metal fish pack­ ages. When you have a specific problem-when some question of packaging comes up-here's a sure place to turn for help. Canco maintains a starf of men who know the industry. They're always available lor counsel and information on your problems. ·AMERICAN .... CAI\l COMPANY '' I '' Fl E PL Fish Reduction Industry Active Partners in the ALIFORNIA PRESS MANUFACTURING COMPANY FISHMEAL PLANTS are consistently doing their share C to build up profits wherever fish reduction operations are conducted. In Alaska, British Columbia and California our equipment is now actively engaged in turning out more than TWO-THIRDS of the entire output of fish oil and meal. New features of our 1930 Model Cooker and Press-instantaneous adjustment of pressure control; complete accessability; sturdier construction; gears and transmission completely housed, run­ ning in oil; excess liquids draining direct into oil sump-as­ sure increased profits. CALIFORNIA PRESS MANUFACTURING CO. 1800 Folsom Street, San Francisco, U.S.A. Northwest Representative: A. W. Wilde, Dexter·Horton Bldg., Seattle

Reductiou Plant of t!ze i.Jouterey Sardine Products Co. at 1\1 onterey qc,!zicfz is equipped •with a California Press J'da 11u[actu ri IIIJ Company · Fish l'd eal Pla11t.

'rhe \Vest Cunst Fisherit~ is puhlished monthly, .Tnnunry lo Novembel', and semi·monthly in December, nt Municipal Fish \Vhnrf, San Pedro, Cnlifornilh })y M. \V. Eley. Sulmcriplinn $:U;O per Y!.!ar in the United Sl~1tes nml lnsul:n· Possessions. Foreign, s.u;o. Entered at. Snn Pedro Post.onit'e as second eJUSS mat.ter November :!·1, 1\128, under Act of 1\larch 3, 1879. Vol. ::!, No. ·1. FEBRUARY, 1930 3

ow is· the Time to put our plants in the best possible physical condition"

-President E. B. CosgroYe ofthe National Canners Ass'n

Continuing, President Cosgro'Ve satd­ "What are the sound measures to be Mauy fish packers will applied to the situation? Immedtate cut 1930 costs and in~ undertaking of all prudent work in sure 1930 profits by re­ three fields- repairs, maintenance, construction. placing drying-and-fry­ "Our task is not to proceed with plans for a vast increase in pro­ ing- equipment with the duction. As President Hoover points out, 'No one would advocate A-B Spiral Chain Fish­ the production of consumable goods beyond the daily demand; Exhauster and the raw~ that in itself only stirs up future difficulty.' pack method. Fn/l iu­ "Our task is to analyze Ollr operations and our plants, replacing formatiott 011 request. old and obsolete equipment with new and more efhcient equipment. Not to see how much more we can produce, but how much cheaper and better we can produce •••••••• That is sound business • • • • • Do it now and help keep all business sound. cllnderson-Bamgrover are ready with wzsttrpassed engineering and manttfacturing facilities, to work with you in putting your plant in the best possible physical condition for low-cost production ofa quality pack. ANDERSON -BARNGROVER MFG. CO. DIVISION OF FOOD MACHINERY CORPORATION 70 PINE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO Factories: San Jose and Hayward, California A ,. B SPIRAL CHAIN FISH E.XHAUSTER THE WEST COAST FISHERIEs

Boatmen lVho Know-· Never an Oiled Suit Like KNOW FROST'S KIRBY OLDSTYLE "SUPERIOR" COPPER OILED CLOTHING PAINT Made for Life at

to he especially adaptable -always oiled the way to Southern waters infest­ fishermen want them! ed with barnacles-OLD STYLE keeps your boat IF YOUR DEALER bottom clean-longer. doesn't seU Frost's we want to know it. Send us his name and wc'JJ see that you arc supplied. San Diego Distributors Harbor Supply Co.. D. 0. Frost Corp. llcndqunrten; for 15 Wharf Street FISHING BOAT SUPPLIES GLOUCESTER, M(\SS. 1027 Harbor St. San Diego, Calif.

HA WOODS FOR BOATS SUGAR PINE - WHITE PINE WHITE CEDAR-SPRUCE TEMPLATE STOCK- PANELS C. W. BOHNHOFF 1500 South Alameda Street WEstmore 2446 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

Phone 2740 Residence Phone 2126-W Marine Sheet Metal Works Heavy Steel Fuel Oil and Water Tanks-Industrial and Marine Work ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDING CHAS. DeVRIES, Proprietor 813 South Seaside, Terminal, California NEAR BETHLEHEM SHIPYARD pEBRVARY, 1930 5

1Q30 The "Hcrmosn"-Iargcst Diesel driven boat in begins the lhe worl~-is powered by a 560 hp. "Model 37" F-M Diesel. SECOND CENTURY Two· 560 hp. "Model 37" F-M Diesels power of building the "Mildmiki" in Hawulinn waters. FAil!JlANKS SCALES Fairbanks-Morse offer additional sizes of highly developed 2-cycle~ airless­ injection Diesel engines ...

The "Eleu" is driven by two 250 to 1200 horsepower 560 hp. "Model 37" F-J\1 Dieaels.

Four years ago Fairbanks-Morse offered The combining of the piston oil cool­ an engine ( 16"x20" cylinder size only) ing and pressure lubricating systems embodying several features unique in necessitated placing the oil reservoir in American practice. By providing an the crankcase. · Consequently, a built-in additional cooling medium for the low pressure air pump was provided to pistons, obtaining greater heat transfer­ supply combustion air to the cylinders. ence, more horsepower per given cylin­ der size was obtained. This developnzent For four years this development has been consisted of a unique co1nbination of a proved on all types of craft in all waters. pressure lubrica.ting system with oil Its success has been responsible for Fan­ cooling of the pistons, without the com­ banks-Morse extending these unique fea­ plications and maintenance liabilities of tures to a complete line of marine engines previous attempts to ·introduce piston ranging from 250 to 1200 hp. designated cooling. as "Model 37."

Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago Los Angeles, Calif., 423 East Third St. Sun Francisco, Calif.. Speur and Hn.rrison Sts. Portland, Ore., East First and Taylor St.s. Seattle, Wash,, 550 First Ave., S. Spokane, Wash., 1113 West Ruilrond Ave . . Snit Luke City, Utah, H S. West Temple Tacoma, Wash,, 432 Perkins Bldg. General Offices: Chicago Branches with Service· Stations in Principal Ports FAIRBANKS ... MORSE DIESEL ENGINES 6 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

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Underwriter& Approved Tuna Faders Association of Calif. is Organized ------9 By If. fl. V AUGFIAN Rock Cod a Steady Source of Supply in C alif. ______zo Jl!l on.terey Packers End Season ______lJ By M. 0. GAY . "Personality Corner" ------.. 12 A Character Sketch of A ..M. Ailan-Begiliniug a Necw Feature · Stalking Big Game in Mexico- A n A ll-Stm· T lzriller _____ ,______,___ l3 By OSCAR P. FUNG DE REGAN. Applying Common Sense to Boat LUX 0 perati on ------"-- ______25 By ARTHUR BENNETT Goes Into the AlERT SPECIAL SECTIONS being built by tbe FFV (Third Installment) Covering San Diego Marine Construction Co. B anita ·- ______------______] 9 for Ocean Industries Sardines ______20 LUX Boat Building Activities in Soutlzem Gives coniplete protection fron1 engine Califonzia Yards room fire in the newest and finest of the .

LUX DISTRIBUTORS DEPARTM.ENTS Southern Northern Northwest California California Alex Gow, Inc. EDITORIAL & Paul W. Hiller Hough Egbert Seattle Wilmington San Francisco FISHERMEN CANNERS ______LUX AGENTS R. V. Morris ...... ,,.,, ...... ,,., ...... San Diego AND Yacht & Motor Sales Corp .. , ...... , .... ,. Wilmington Craig Building Co., , ... , ..... , ...... Long Beach RETAlLERS ______. William Sylva Co, .. , ...... ~ . San Francisco Beebe Co...... ·...... Portland . FRESH FISH __ _ Seattle Marine Equipment Co., , .... , ...... , .Seattle Ho£fars Ltd.. . , ...... , ...... Vancouver WASHINGTON OREGON Walter Kidde t& Company, Inc. CALIFORNIA J. 40. Cedar Street )-tew York (Coufetlis Copy,·iglded, 1930 by .M. Jfl'. Eley) FEBRUARY, 1930

AOVERTISERS

A N Alaskan Glacier Co..... 58 Naylor, Geo. F •...... 63 American Can Co.... ----Front Cover Nehalem Bay Fish Co•...... 5~ American Fisheries Co ...... --- M Neubay Oyster Co. 54 Americnn. Fisheries, Inc ...... , .. 61 New England Fish C~::::::::::::: 57 American Fishermen's Pro. Newport Fish Co, ····---····-----·--· 59 Assn. ····------·-~----·--···-·····-······· 39 Anderson Bamgrove_r Mfg. 0 Co. ···-···········-···--······--·-······· 3 Anderson (Arthur) Fish Co..... 53 Oakland Fish Co. ····----··· ·---····· 55 Ocean Fillh Co...... ~---· til Arcadian Seafood Co...... ----· 55 Oregon Fish Co..... : ...... 59 B p Berry Bros. ····-·········------·······--·· 40 Blumenthal, M. 'N- ····-·---···---~ 53\ Pacific Coast Fish Co...... 61 Dolmhoff, C. \V...... _\ 4 Pacific Mutual Fish Co., Inc~- 60 Booth (F. E.) Co., Inc ...... ·y··:-\48 Palndini (A.), Inc...... 65 Brennen (J. J,) Oyster Co...... 57 .Parke & Kibele, Inc ...... 38 Bristol Bay Packing Co...... :. 54 Patterson Sargent; Co...... 42 Peoples Fish Co ...... 64 c Pioneer Fisheries ...... 59 Protane Bottled Gas Cq, ------36 California Press Mfg. Co...... Inside Front Cover R Cenac (C.) & Co...... 55 Central California Fish Go...... 60 Rask Shipbuilding Co. 38 Central Fillh Co...... 61 Reeves, J, H ..... 59 Central Fish & Oyster Co...... 63 Ripley (Edwin) & Son 58 Central Sheet Metal Works ...... 44 Ripley Fish Co.,. Inc ... 58 AVES Chesapeake Fish Co...... 64 Coast Fisheries ...... 55 Columbia River Packers ...... - 53 s Crab-Salmon Fishermen's -Pro- Salazar, Luis ...... 44 tective Ass'n...... : .. .39 San Diego Fisheries Co. ------~--- 64 Cunningham, Allan ...... - ... 40 San Diego Fishermen's Assn., Custom House Packing Corp. 4 7 Inc...... 39 San Francisco International 75% of the D Fish Co...... - ...... 65 Sanitary Oyster Co...... 56 Davis (F. A.) Co ...... 17 San Jua'n Fishing & Packing Dowden, Henry Co ...... 53 Co., Inc. ..: ...... : ______58 E San LUis Fish_ Co-...... 61 Fuel Costs.-.. San Pedro Boat Building Co., Ets-Hokin & Galvan...... 40 Inc. ------~----- ...... 44 San Pedro Fish Co...... 62 11 San Pedro Grocery & Supply Itairbanks-i\Iorse & Co...... 5 Co, ...... -..... 44 Feller Fish Co...... 53 Sardine Canners Association. of Ingle OIL BURNING Marine Fishermen's Cooperative Assn. 39 Calif...... 49 Fletcher, Wiest & Co...... 54 Sebastian Stuart Fish Co...... B Ranges are made for every size and 4 X. Fisheries ...... 60 Shockey Boiler Works ------38 style of vessel. Frost (D. 0.) Corp. ------· 4 Southern Calif. Jap. Fisher~ men's Assn. ------39 G Stamford Foundry Co...... 42 General Fisheries Corp, ...... 49 Standard Boiler & Steel Works The same Oil Fuel that is used for Gold Beach Packing Co ...... 55 ...... Inside Back Caver Gorton-Pew Fisheries ... .. 63 Standard -Fisheries ...... : ...... 66 the Marine Engine is ideal fuel for Gross (E. B.) Canning Co .... 49 Standard Fisheries Co, ...... 61 Star Fisheries ..: ...... 62 the Ingle Range, as p raven in use H Stellar Fish Co ...... 64 Sunset Fillh Co...... _...... 59 on many Clipper Fishing Boats. Haines Oyster Co...... 57 Superior Sea Food Co...... 63 ~annula (John, Jr.) Fish Cc ... 57 Harbor Fillh Co, ...... 63 Suttora (Frank) Fish Co...... 60 Harbor Sheet Metal Worlts ...... 44 T 25 years record for Economy­ Harbor Supply Co ...... 4· H!!ndry (C. J,) Co...... 42 Tacoma Fish & Packing Co ..... 58 Efficiency-Endurance. •

Young's Market Co. 62 Los Angeles Harbor Agent: z Z.ankich Bros ...... 62 PAUL W. fiLLER, Wilmington

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FISH Seattle, U.S.A.

-Packers of- · FRESH and FROZEN HALIBUT SALMO Mild Cured Salmon Canned Salmon THE ~\IIES1r ~C()ASlr IFIISIHIEIRIIIES PUBLISHED fOR THE ELEMENTS THAT ~THEW

Tuna Packers Association of Calif. ... IS Organized

GREAT CONSTRUCTIVE STEP WILL GUARANTEE QUALITY OF PACK By H. H. VAUGHAN OR THE PURPOSE of raising already high stan­ tuna almost ever since tuna has been packed in Cali­ F dards governing the packing of tuna, the California fornia. In 1914 he came to the state and organized the canners of that delicacy have for1ned a voluntary or­ Long Beach Tuna Packing Company, becoming its ganization which wi11 \Vork president, and in 1918 when in cooperation with the Cali­ he joined forces with the fornia State Board of Health Van Camp interests he was and the F e d e r a I Food, president of the Interna­ Drugs and Insecticides Ad­ tional Packing Company, ministration in supervising which had been formed by the preparation of tuna for the consolidation of several consumption, from the canneries. According to catching of the fish to the President Hornstein, the final emergence of the fin­ new association is the "off­ ished product fro m the spring" of :Mr. H oussels and cooking retorts. 'rhat the credit· for bringing it into association n1eans business being is largely due him. is well attested by the fact B. D. :Marx Greene, vice that an initial appropriation president and general man­ ?f approximately $20,000.00, ager of the Sardine Canners tor. carrying out a definite Association of Caifornia, is program of inspection and in charge of the legal de­ scientific research, has been partment of the new associa­ made., tion. The secretary of the !~leading the organization, tuna Packers' I?;roup is yet wluch has been given the oi­ to be named. Directors con­ :ficial name of the Tuna sist of President Hornstein, P a c: k e r s' Association of Vice President 1-Ioussels, California, is Sam R. Horn­ \Viley Ambrose, president stein as president and B. of the ·westgate Sea Prod­ Houssels as vice president. ucts Company of San Diego; 1vir. Iiornstein is president SAM HORNSTEIN H. J. Halfhill, president of of the Coast Fishing Com­ President oi Coast Fishing Company of Wilmington, Cali£., Heads New the Halfhill Packing Cor­ fany of Wilmington and has Association poration of Long Beach and Jeen one of the leading tuna vVilbur Wood, president of Packers for years. lvfr. Houssels, vice president in the Southern California Fish Corporation of Terminal Iharge of production for the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Island. nc., also is a prominent figure and has been packing The formation o{ this organization marks the exten- 10 THE WEST COAST F(SHERlES sian of the jurisdiction of the California State Board of identified with the organization are unanimous in de­ Health to the sources of supply. More than four years claring that the benefits they will receive from this ago the tuna canning industry voluntarily put itself inspection and research will unquestionably result in under the supervision of the State Board of Health and the \vork being continued indefinitely. Besides the n1ade provision for systematic inspection of the tuna . broader and more rigid inspection by the California·' pa~k by levying an assessment based on the individual State Board of Health, the plans include the establish­ output of the canners. This inspection, however, was ment of a laboratory and scient.ific research staff, under almost entirely for the purpose of guaranteeing the ster­ the command of a thoroughly competent food chemist. ilization of the product and did not contemplate inspec­ The formation of the tuna canners' organization is an ti6n of the raw fish. The very nature of the preparation aftermath of the recent canners' convention at Chicago of tuna-its being _pre-cooked before canning-would and from the standpoint of the interests of canners, naturally preclude. any bad fish from being used and distributors and .consumers alike is one of the most tuna has ahvays __ held a very high reputation among important develoiJ~nents of the big Chicago gathering. canned foods. To put tuna canning on the same plai1e Several of-the tuna canilers met in Chicago with repre­ as the meat packing industry, however, and to place it sentatives of the United States Food, Drugs and Insecti­ entirely above suspicion as regards absolute whole­ cides Administration, which has charge of the enforce­ someness, inspectors of the California State Board of ment of federal food regulations, for the purpose of I-Iealth arc empowered under the new arrangement to discussing methods for the betterment of the tuna pack. go .upon the tuna boats before they land their cargoes Arrangements were made for the inspection of all-tuna and examine the, raw' fish, and reject ai1ything that is stocks in packers' hands. This .is being c8.rried out, to not absolutely fresh :and' sound. Every step of the the satisfaction of all cOncerned, and U meeting' 'of the preparation of the tuna from the landing wharf to the canners was held and the association formed. The shipping room will be carefully watched and no possi­ packers all expressed sincere appreciation of the efforts bility missed for improving the quality of the pack. of the food authorities in this constructive work and There is an iron-clad agreement among the members stated their desire to cooperate most fully in main­ of the association-in fact a contract in black and white taining the highe;;t possible standards. It is felt by the -to carry mi the work for a period of five years, which canners that with the growth of the tuna output from answers any question as to the seriousness of the pur­ 350,000 cases annually in 1920 to a yearly output now of pose of the canners and dispels any doubt that the close .to a million and a half cases the adoption of the ~ovement for pe:rfection may be spasmodic. Canners most careful standards is fully warranted.

Rock Cod Steady Source of Supply Calif.

THE FISH LIKES FRESH WATER AND WHEN IT RAINS HE GETS CAUGHT

ROM THE HUMAN standpoint the rock cod is a fish to six or eight pounds, and therefore the proper size to bake F that doesn't have sense enough to "stay in out of the whole for a family, no matter what· size, usually can be rain." But in :finny circles this red and brown denizen of purchased. the deep is perfectly rational. Being one of the rock :fishes The housewife, buying a rock cod for baking, should be rind an inhabitant of the rockv bottoms of the ocean he advised by her fish merchant to have the collar and belly comes to the surface principallY during the rainy season in portions left on, as they contain most of the fat and flavor order to get the fresh water. And that is when he gets caught. of the fish. While many persons have many different ways of Thus we see the explanation of the fact that rock cod is preparing :fish, the best chefs agree that the rock cod shOuld plentiful during the rainy weeks of the be baked with onions, tomatoes and winter months in Southern California strips of bacon in ·order to procure How the rock cod, playing among the 1f/CF herewith presents the secoml of a the best results and the most ·delect­ series of sketches of the principal fresh rocks along the bottom of the coastal market fishes available in Southern Cali­ able flavor. shelf, knows that it is raining is beyond fornia. These short articles will appear Dealers can assure their clientele us Perhaps some under-water tele­ each month antl are designetl to aid tlw that if they try rock cod and like it graph tells him. At any rate, he dis­ trade in the movement of the various they need not fear unsteady supply, as fish. Therefore, it will be our purpose this fish is caught pretty consistently misses school on account of rain and to treat of each variety at about tlre sea­ shoots to the surface to drink in the son it becomes important upon the mar­ the year throughout, best catches being fresh water. lwt.-Editor.- as mentioned before, dul-ing rainy Whatever the rock cod :finds to eat \veather. Rock cads are caught along among .those bouldery bottoms of the the Pacific from Mexico to Alaska, Pacific must be first class fodder, for he proves to be a most varying somewhat in variety, and the rock cod taken in tasty :fish when prepared in the proper manner. The rock Southern California waters are among the best. The fish cod is best suited to baking ·whole, or frying, if not fried too is caught by small boats which bring in steady supplies, long, as prolonged frying tends to toughen the .meat. The instead of a large catch one week and none the ne.xt, hence :fish is caught in sizes ranging from three-fourths of a pound the price is usually fairly reasonable. FEBRVAR'Y, 1930 ~onterey Packers End Season DIFFICULTIES OF SEASON SEEN AS "GROWING PAINS" OF INDUSTRY

By J\L 0, GAY

HE SARDINE CANNING season at Monterey. T is winding up in a fever of production which bids fair to make 1929-30 a record year, desipte one of thC leanest January run:s in the history of the local· in­ dustry. With fish now plentiful in the bay, both purse seiners and the local crews using half rhl'g gear during the last week of January and the first week of February have been bringing in heretofore unprecedented catches. With the end of the season slated by law for Feb­ ruary 15, a backsight at the year show.s a clear gain for the industry as a whole despite such cloudy spots as the difficulty between canners and the fish and game commission, factional differences between packers and crews at the steady encroachment of purse seiners . .\Vhile each of these developments is indeed fraught -\vith serious possibilities, they are seen by progressive packers and l\tionterey business men as indications of important fundamental changes in the whole scheme of the industry. Looking at them in this light, leaders of the_ industry see these problems as "growing pains" rather than major disturbances, and are hoping for speedy and businesslike adjustment. During the clos­ ing rush most of these problems have been temporarily shunted into the background, but it seems certain that during the approaching slack season definite steps· will be taken toward their solution. Most Fundamental Change Perhaps .the most fundamental change in the industry at Monterey this season has been the revolution in fish­ ing methods. Purse seiners, it is true, first made their appearance on Monterey Bay in 1926. But it was not until this season that sufficient numbers operated here to dominate the bay. Their coming naturally has not been altogether wel­ comed by the local lampara crews. But it seems evi­ dent by the performance of the purse boats during the latter part of the season that only with such equip­ ment can fish be obtained under the conditions now con­ fronting fishennen. \Nhatever may be the cause, it seems to be pretty well established that the old days of close-in fishing with small boats and gear are past. \Vith the fish running as they have been, it takes a big sea-going craft with a large cruising range and large cawo capacity to get fish. And with such boats and gear, phenomenal catches have been made. VVhen fishing was resumed after the dark of the moon in January, two nights' catches totalled more than 7,000 tons. Lampara boats, con­ verted to halfring rig, got their share of these huge catches, but by far the greater portion was brought in by purse seiners. As an indication of how the catch Was divided, the local cre-w's payroll-at the February 1 ~livision was around $55,000, while that of the purse semers has been variously estimated at from $100.000 to $175,000. · The Purse-Seiner ''Flo-dd.a" Burning Off Monterey 12 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

II Personality Corner IJ A.M. ALLAN By 1\I. 0. GAY E 1\iiGHT WELL be called the "grand old man" H of l\ionterey's cannery row, for A ..M. Allan, presi­ dent of the :rvionterey Canning Company is tt:uly a pioneer of the industry in which he has played a leading part since the<_organization of his concern in 1918. That year, \vhen the I\1onterey Canning Company's plant \vas b~tilt, saw the erection: of four new sardine canneries at l\tonterey and definitely marked the emer­ gence of sar.dine packing from the experimental stage to the status of a full-fledged industry. l\1r. Allan brought to the the1l. infant industry a rich backgrom~d of business and technical experience. Trained as an engineer, he devoted the early years of his life to a variety of big construction projects, both on the Pacific Coast and in the East. His specialty was the designing of race tracks, and his name became as­ sociated with the building of many of the nation's A. M. Allan and· A. M. Allan, Jr. famous race courses. \~Thile his major interest prior to 1918 had been con­ of the depression which forced many canners perilouslv tracting on a large scale, l\lr. Allan was at that time no close to "the wall". ~ newcomer to the fish packing business. Some thirty As a man A. 1\I. Allan is known and loved over the years ago he pioneered .the canning of abalone at Point l\lonterey Peninsula for his maily humanitarian activi­ Lobos, just south of .Monterey where his country home ties. \Vhen the Y. \V. C. .A. organized .. a "Blue is located. :rvir. Allan \\·as one of the first men in the Triangle" club some years ago to aid women cannerv state to realize the enormous potential value of the big \Yorkers, he was an active sponsor of the movement. shell fish and in the days before modern rcfriReration Likewise he aided in establishment of a day nursery made it possible to ship fresh abalone all over the state located in the industrial colony. For many years he has the canned variety originated by him was about the been an officer and active worker in the Pr~sbyterian only form in which abalone was generally known. He church of 1\Ionterey. still operates the Point Lobos cannery, but production has been limited by the increasing demand for fresh abalone and by the effect of the state law prohibiting Another Bait Boat shipment of the shell fish beyond the borders of Cali­ F or~ launchin!?! soon AI Larson, ~ermi_nal Island, fornia. Cahf., boat bullder has a 117-foot !we-bait boat for Always quick tn Yisua1lze new business opportunities. 11 D. 'rani and partners, for which completiml. is ·sche­ A.l\L", as he is ktlOlYll, \Yas one of the organizers two duled for early this summer. years ago of the 1\lonterey Bank when the need arose This craft, to be po-..vered with a 450-h.p. Fairbanks- for an additional financial institution on the l\Ionterey 1\.forse Diesel engine, will be one of the most modern of Peninsula. ~ the high-sea fishing fleet, an unusual feature.: being the The story of A. l\L Allan's life is another romance of American opportunity. l\Ir. Allan himself will tell you fact that twin auxiliaries· will be installed in every in­ most of his success must be credited to his lengthy stance. thus giving maximum insurance agahist failure period of training in the "school of hard knocks." of an auxiliary to perform when most needed. The Born in Scranton Pa., he started his climb up the lad­ generators, pumps, and other auxiliaries, will be oper­ der of opportunity rit a point ivhich might be described ated alternately, gi\·ing them greater life than on most as somewhat beneath the bottom rung, for his first joh boats. A Baker ice machine will be introduced to the was ~

HARDSHIPS TOLD IN STORY OF EXPEDITION TO GULF OF CALIF. By OSCAR P. FUNG DE REGAN

HIS is the Squawkee portion of a talking picture hoofing it to their destination, over the hills and T entitled "Hearts in l\Iexico"; or, "Below the Vol­ through the cactus and sagebrush. Shot No. 1 shows stead Line," in lvhich the principal roles arc taken the vehicle and a very, very small part of the sagebrush. by Charles J. Sebastian, enacting the part of a big fish Along the way a very touching little scene is taken to hold human-interest in the picture. Mr. Sebastian man from Seattle1 and Henry Dowden, San Francisco, broker in foods piscatorial. Other members of the cast makes friends with a shy little burro. (Shot No. 2 include assorted l\IIexican natives and Indian fishermen shows how he did it. lVIr. Sebastian is on the right. and two or three white men dealing in Gulf of Cali­ Note modest expression of burro.) fornia fish. Directed Not long has the by 0. P. Fung De expedition ridden be­ Regan, photographed fore they come to one by WCF staff repre­ of those oases that sentative . we in the U n i t e d The setting is the States read about and beautiful but wild that are indispensable countrv about the to a good movie. Gulf of California, Therefore (in s hot with the principal No. 3) we next see a scc1ie being a fisher­ jolly scene with Mr. men's camp at Port Sebastian and Mr. Lobos. The plot con­ Dowden toasting the cerns the heroic ex­ success of their ex­ ploration expedition. ploratio'n enterprise of these two northern in a bottle of ginger fish men in search o{ ale. relaxation from the As our story goes, strain o{ weighty this ginger ale prOves business matters. not to be "extra dry" and the pair refuses The Scenario: to pay, claiming that 'I' he first shots ( al­ they have been swin­ though not shown dled, \Vhereupon they herewith are of the are thrown into the leading men throwing local bastile. (Shot together in a bundle No. 4 shows them the hare necessities of making faces at the life and embarking jailer upon their in­ bravely on the South­ carceration. Next shot ern Pacific forTucSoiL is a close-up of the Came the dawn. adventurers, in a sol­ and our heroes land emn moment, as they in the Arizona citv, are beginning to won­ where they pen the"ir der just when they last brief words of are going to get out.) farewell and consign After spending the them to the \Vestern n i g h t behind the pnion, before plung-­ bars the explorers de­ mg into the wilder­ cide that they, must ness. As luck would not let a few cents for have it they prevail a couple of bottles of upon the Gulf Sea ginger ale stand be­ F.ood Company to tween them and their give them a lift in an great enterprise, and automobile and thus pay up, being re­ escape the hardship leased. of many pioneers in ( Canti11ued 011 page 17) 14 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

THE WEST COAST FISHERIES A Journal Published iu the :Midst of and Sponsot·ed by the Diversified Interests Representing the Fastest drawing~ Riches/ and Largest Fishing Section on the Globe, · M. W. ELEY, Publisher Editorial Offices, San Pedro, Calif. JOHN. T, WATTS, Editor Telephone San Pedro 4890

Representatives and Correspondents itt Praaically Every Fishing Cctitcr on tlu /Vest Coast of America

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it 'was not learned. That he would arrive in Monterey Selling Permits? this evening was_ the general expectation: Just \vhat 1vfr. Bennett \yill learn is problematical. At least three of the men whose· statements have cOrroborated HERE l-IAS COME to light charges of offers to the first' stories of the alleged "reduction permit deal'' have T certain l\!Ionterey capners, and one other individ­ flatly declared they \viii tell him nothing. Their position ual not now engaged in the fish busine~s, to deliver is, that the matter is not one for the fish and game com­ "wide open" sardine· reduction permits for a large con­ mission to investigate but rather for the state department of natural resourcCs, and they have declared themselves sideration, which-whether true or not-d1ould make willing to tell Fred G. Stevenot, director of that depart­ the voters of California think twice before they give up ment, or his representatives, what they know, but not the what authority they now have in the legislation of fish fish and game commission or 'its emissaries. and game matters. · In the meantime The Herald has beeh informed that at least hvo local men \Yent to Los Angeles and conferred . This scandal, with its innuendos, charges and coun­ with three of the alleged promoters of the scheme to ter-charges has by now perhaps reached the ears of secure open reduction permits for use in Monterey, and everyone who keeps in touch with the sarcline industry that these promoters carried negotiations to the point ·where they agreed to produce a permit upon payment of in California, but it will be a miscarriage of justice if .$6,750 in cash and promise of a half interest in the profits the facts of the case, whatever they may be, are not of the enterprise. thoroughly aired out and given to the public. The figure mentioned is said to have represented a:n at­ The incident demonstrates forcefully the folly of tempt to compromise when their original demand .for $10,000 was rejected, and it is understood that the smallCr delegating the legislature's rights to any commission, amount was actually available in Los Angeles when the department or bureaucracy. \Vhile the argt1 ment is put local capitalist, upon second thotwht, decided it would. -be t1p that the legislature can be "influenced" by_ interests unwise to_·- hand over any cash before he had even seen the desiring certain legislation, if the said interests are permit- or some evidence that a permit would be forthcom­ ing. Then the deal fell through, and the local parties re­ determined to "influence" it is reasonable to suppose turned home. that they will have much less difficulty with three or four men than with an entire _legislature. This is by no 1neans to be construed as an insinuation that the fish and game commissionerS or anyone in their employ are implicated in the charges of Th'lonterey ~anners that Cows-Not Bull someone has been trying to sell them reduction permits, but it does show the danger of giving too much powet E FEEL as must the cow have felt that kicked to any commission or d·epartment in case the wrong W over the lantern that started the Chicago fire. man should get into an Qffice of authority. \iVe've started something, too. 'l'he ".I\1onterey Herald" o'r Feb. 8, reporting the sit­ And as the cow undoubtedly became, we are becom­ uation, states in part as follows: ing quite \Vann as the blaze gains ground. ·The parallel ceases here, for bossy, it is reasonable to suppose, hard­ Investigation of the sen;;ational. ,charges regarding efforts ly knew how to handle the situation she had invoked. to "sell" reduction perniits to local canners, promised \Ve--:'l.::no\v what to do about our 11 fire," -but it takes a yesterday from Sacramento and San Francisco, had not 1i'itre time, and )rou readers who are writing the heated yet reached Monterey thi,s ·afternoon, so far as inquiry 1 along "cannery row" could_,discover. E-ugene D. Bennett, ·'letters in to us are begged, beseeched and implored, attorney for the state fish and game commission, \V"JS re­ please to have a }ittle patience. ported to have stopped at Hollister, but for what purpose Now, in case yoti don't know what we are talking FEBRUARY, 1930

about, and haven't read of a fire on the \iVCF premises, here is the dope: Optimism Pervades In the New Year's de luxe number The West Coast :Fisheries published the first installment of FFV, the Encyclopedia of the Fish, Fruit and Vegetable Indus­ Canners' Meeting tries of the West, following it up with the second install­ GENERAL FEELING of optimism reg;arding the ment in the January magazine and the third i1; th_is A movement of canned California fish and othe-r issue. Announcing this revolutionary, new service 111 canned foods in the year 1930 prevailed at the recent the December number, we said that subscribers Canners' Convention in Chicago and is strongly mani­ would be supplied with binders in which to fested in the principal jobbing centers of the country, file each installment "under its proper section, until according to prominent southern Calilornia canner:; within two years when the service is completed the who recently returned home after attendance at the con­ . subscriber ";ill have in one book the most complete vention and an extensive tour of the United States. record of these great industries yet produced. Vl e This outlook is fully justified, state the canners, on the must admit here that these binders have not yet been basis of the condition of stocks in dealers' hands, as forthcoming. well as the very small stocks of all kinds c,f food prod­ l-Ienee the fireworks. ucts in the hands of producers. Readers are writing in to us and wanting to know In the year 1929 almost every old line wholesaler 11where the blankety blank are the binders, anrl how do made a profit, say informants, where in the previous we get them?" few years the wholesaler considered that he had done One prominent fisheries executives writes, in part: well if he had broken even. The improved condition is 11 To date I have not received such a binder, and would attributed to a changed conception on the part of the be please'd to do so as I find this part of the magazine wholesaler of his function and his opportunlties. Where the most interesting and would like to keep them to­ formerly he placed emphasis on the importance of buy­ gether." ing, he now realizes that his problem is rather one ·b'f Now, it also must be admitted that this is a reason­ selling and distribution, and is entering upon the yeal- able request, and we hasten to reaffirm that everyone 1930 with a definite program of promotion- work :i11-d who is a bonafide subscriber to The vVest Coast intensive sales effort and with corifidence that suCh Fisheries, under the terms and conditions to be ex­ effort will show increasingly large profits for 1930. > ' plained in detail soon, will receive a handsome leather The problem of distribution is still the thing that ~~­ binder, with the proper indices for filing each ~nstall­ erybody is talking about, but the old-timers in the gam~ ment of FFV, and with his own name stamped m gold are finding their place in the present-day methods of dis,­ on the front. tribution and are satisfied in their own minds as to their It is a big undertaking to n1at1ttfacture these special­ ability to continue as distributors, says the Californi~ ly .tnade-to-order binders and stamp individual names packer. The average retailer, who is properly financed, on each one (although our order already has been let he says, has nothing to fear from competition, being to one of the largest bindery houses in the Southwest) able to buy on a very advantageous basis and having and. all we can say to anxious readers at present is, an advantage over the chain unit in the matter of per:­ not to lose installments of FFV already printed and tnanence of personnel and community acquaintanceship to be patient. and influence. ' B. Housse1s, vice-president of the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., Terminal Island, Calif., was elected a director of the National Association for a term of three years. A Praiseworthy Move From the San Pedro district those attending the con­ vention were: Frank Van Camp, president, and Roy RGANIZATION of the Oregon and Washington P. 1-Iarper, sales manager, Van Camp Sea Food Com:.. -O- Fisheries AsSociation, 'vhich took place recently, pany, Inc., Terminal Island; Ed. Hoyt, sales manager, is a praiseworthy step in the direction of cooperative French Sardine Company, Terminal Island; K.arl Enev­ effort to solve the problems of the industry, if the by­ oldsen, sales manager, Southern Califoniia Fish Corpo­ laws, just at hand, are lived up to. Sectl;n. 2, un.der ration; Joseph J\'I .l\1arclesich, president, Franco-Italian "Name and Object", of the by-laws reads: 'The object Packing Company, Terminal Island; E. P. Spangler, shall be to promote and protect the sources and future traveling representative, Halfhill Packing Corporation, supply of salmon, particularly for Oregon and Wash­ Long Beach; J. R. Biven, sales manager, Coast Fishing ington.u Company, VVilmington. And it is evi-dent from every indication that the gen­ tlemen \Vho met at Portland a couple of months ago and K. Hovden, president of the K. Hovden Company, formed the new association are taking the work they l\1onterey, was also present, as was G. fvf. Rothaug, have cut out for themselves seriously. One of the ob­ San Francisco, representing the F. E. Booth Company, jective's of the group is to bring about cGoperation be­ Inc. tween the states of _Oregon and \Vashington in consider­ J. C. vVood represented Cohn-Hopkins, Inc., and the ation of salmon. vVestgate Sea Products Company of San Diego. There is no doubt but that there is great and press­ The canners' convention opened Nionday, January 20, ing -need of close harmony between the industry itself with morning and afternoon sessions, the latter being artd "the government, not only in Oregon and \Vashing­ a joint session with the National Wholesale Grocers' ton>but in other states as well, if the> problems of the Association, whose annual convention was held at the ·fisheri.es- are to be met- with successful solution. Congress Hotel. 16 THE JI7EST COAST FISHERIES

have approached have been indifferent to the threat letting George Do It against the industry from which they gain a livelihood By H. V. HERBERT and to their own welfare, or, what is worse, expected to be carried upon the shoulders of those who are \:vill­ HE HEADING APPEARING over this column ing to join this organization alHl make the fight that T seems to exemplify the attitude of ~ome of the will be necessary before the proposed measure is fishermen, particularly those in Southern California, defeated. towards interesting themselves in the formation of the The fishermen in northern ·California seem fullY alive California Fishermen's Association. to the dangers confronting them and are anxious and The "let-the-other-fellow-do-it" spirit is one of the willing to bear their portion of the battle in fighting \Vofst faults in the , particularly so in these dangers. VVe think, however, that they will not matters _which affect the industry as a whole. Unless a be willing and anxious to carrv the other man's burden matter immediately atiects, and affects directly their as well. ~ · particular activity, many of the fishermen and dealers Though there has not been a great deal of newspaper also are prone to pass it by and let someone else publicity put' out by the California Conservationists the handle it. last few weeks they are nevertheless actively carrying The move of the California Conservationists to give forward their program by means Of speeches in clubs to the Fish and Game Commission complete control of and other organizations throughout the· state and per­ the fisheries of the state is a matter which affects the fecting their state-wide organization. country as a whole, though some in the industry seem Like good generals, they are saving their heavy am­ to think that it will affect only certain districts. munition for the end of the battle. It is true that according to past experience in the 'I'hough the fishermen in the south have been slow legislature some portions of the State will be affected to get behind the California Fishermen's Association, 1nore than others; however, if vou will delve far Bryce Florence, who at considerable personal sacrifice enoug-h back in the legislative re~ords, you will find of time and money has been active in this movement, that there is hardly any portion of the fishing industry does not feel discouraged. I-Le states that the fishermen that at some time or other has not been attacked hv this from Monterey north are pledged nearly ·100 per cent same group. VVitness the legislation proposed d~uring and that if ncessary they will limit the association to the past years to restrict all types of net fishing adjacent the north and go into the fight in that inanner. to the waters of Santa Cruz and Catalina Islands; to prohibit landing with nets on Santa Cruz J stands; the many proposals made regarding barring of purse nets and eliminating of sizes of barracuda, tuna and other fishes. The 1930 Outlook For the northern part of the state have been numer­ By H. L. MILLER ons proposals to limit the catch of striped bass still further and to shut off all fishing for salmon. These are E ARE ALL wondering just what the 1930 yc!­ just a few of the man)r pieces of legislation proposed by W low fin tuna season has in start for the fisher­ the group behind the California Conservationists. U n­ men and the canners. During the Christmas and New successful with the legislature, they are now turning Year holidays the fishermen had no thoughts for the to this plenary power act hoping to attain their ends coming year, their minds being only on a big Christ­ by means of what they hope will be a Fish and Game mas dinner and a good time while they \Ycre ashore, Commission amenable to their ideas. but now some are getting ready to leave and others We Cannot fail to think that the reason the fishermen have already departed for the south and the fishing in Southern California have not shown proper interest grounds. And now they, too, are beginning to wonder in the Association is because they do not realize what the 1930 tuna season holds in store for them. the fnll measure of the threat made against them and The 1929 tuna season was a very profitable one· for the need for the organization to be formed as quickly some of the more fortunate ones, but in general it ~vas as possible in order that it ·will not be hampered by a what you might call a f1.ir season. scramble of last minute organization, and not be prop­ In the past the fishermen found that the great mun­ erly prepared for the battle that is before it. ber of tuna boats in operation were breaking up the Due to the great number of men employed in the fish­ schools of fish, so that it is almost impossible for any eries in southern California it is impossible to gather one boat to have a very large day's catch. When a the men either in San Pedro and San Diego into any school of tuna are found there are always three or four sort of a general meeting. Several hundred men have boats trying their best to get a large share. From all attended meetings in San Pedro and about seventy in indications, we believe that the coming 1930 tuna .sea­ San Diego. Nearly everyone has read, or should have son will be a fairly good one, but the fishermen will read, of the purpose of the organization-that is mutual still have trouble finding a large school, such as some protection against proposed legislation affecting the en­ that have been found in the years past. tire fishing industty. Of the hundred or so of men We are almost positive that the yellow fin tuna are who attended meetings in the south, not one but has now traveling a greater distance south than in previous agreed that this Association is necessary in order that years, and that the larger boats are the ones that are the fishing industry may survive in this state. Appar­ going to bring in the catches. It is evident that the ently, realization of the necessity of the organization trips now being made are longer and the distances trav­ died when they left the meeting. Dependence had been eled greater than ever before, because there has al­ placed upon this nucleus of men to go out among their ready been additional fuel tanks installed on the boats fellows and explain to them the need of a state-wide uPoint Lama'' and ucalifornia,JJ both members of the association and the necessity for signing the pre-organ­ San Diego tuna fleet. They are installing these tanks :ization agreement so its formation \vould not be de­ in the forward hatch, previously uSed for storing nets layed. This they have failed to do, or those whom they and ship supplies. FEB R U A. R Y, 19 3 0 L'

STALKING BIG GAME IN MEXICO {Continued from Pagt' 13) Middlemen Rapped The journey continues.-Comc night frill and the hardy pair are at the end of the trail, their appetites [-IE MEXICAN GOVERN?viENT desires no "mid­ jolted unmercifully by unbelievable roads. (Shot No. T. dleman" in projects involving the establishnient of 6 shows them taking stock of their surroundings from enterprises, according .to Conunissioner Sepul­ in front of their rude shelter.) .A hasty meal, ·consist­ veda, chief of the ·l\Icxican fish.,ancl game coh1mission ing principally of totnava, washed down by near beer here, and successor to General ]. l\l. '.l'apia, recently brewed in their idle ti1mnents by the native fishermen, appointed governor of Lower California. He said that completes the day. third parties ·have been offering to secure permits for Bright an_cl early the next morning they are up and the establishment of fisheries off the 1Iexican coast, fishing (with -the aid of natives shown in shots No. haye taken money as compensation, and have produced 7 and 8). The results of the catch arc shown in the no re:sul~s. T.he :Mexican govern~nent wishes ~o develop 1 next two scenes. the fishmg mdustry and to g1ve ,_co-operatlon to all The climax of the picture and the completing scenes without the intervention of ~t ·third' persmi, and tho'se show the heroes arming to hunt wild goats (the man­ wishing to establish fishery enterp~~s17s off the I\lexican agement regrets that these masterful scenes had to be coast, he said, arc directed to- apply ~a·_ tlie secretary of agriculture in J\1exico City. ·; , cut) only to find deer, which they refuse to shoot ex- cept in self defense. ~ HILmorous lncitlents THANKS FOR THE CALENDARS It might be remarked in closing this movie review that several humorous incidents worthy of mention At this season of the year the sending of-.calenclars is occurred durin_g the filming of this big epic. in style and WCF was the' recipent ·during the present One such eptsode took place when the leadino· men. month of many attractive calendars from both adver~ thrown upon their resources in the outpost vil~ge of tisers and readers. VVCF hereby wishes to thank all who Altar (the oasis mentioned above) attempted to adapt so kindly remembered this _magazine in this manner. their admirable talkie voices to the Spanish latFruarre as Tl1e calendars are too numerous to mention any but 1t is spoken by the few hundred Indians and n:;_tiye some of the outstanding ones. An attractive color sheep herders of the town. scheme is shown on the one received from the Schmidt \~That would a talkie be without its theme song? Lithograph Company. Another, from the J. J. Brenner Yes, indeed, our movie had one. It was "Barcelona," Oyster Co. is particularly interesting for its design rendered by I\.fr. Sebastian, barytone. This was quite which shows two Indian maidens. The VVestern-CalifOr~ an· unusual song and should have been mentioned ear­ nia .Fisl~ Company's. calendar·, .sho'':ing a youn_g ·woman lier in this review and we beg the leading man's par­ fislung 111 a mountam st~·eam 1s qutte appropnate, as -is the. one _of the San Lms Fish Company, depiciting a don for including it under "humorous incidents." fishmg v!llage and the blue sea beyond. The Gay Engi­ One gag that really put the shmv over was the snor­ neering Corporation of California also presente(I \iVCF ing scene between lv[cssrs. Dowden and Sebastian. The with a neat and practical calendar. As .for the others­ gag 1nan, assisted by Director Fung De Regan, ar­ well, the editorial room is full of calendars. ranged-that these temperamental stars should bunk to­ gether. The plot of the skit was that the differcnt­ qua}it;:- sno:es of each should wak~ the other up. You COBB'S DEATH MOURNED cant tmag1ne what damage these vibrations did to our talkie apparatus. ·word is received of the death of Dean John Cobb ----- on January 13, at La Jolla, California. The passing The suggestion is made in England that fresh fish of Dean Cobb is mourned by many friends in the dea~ers, in endeavoring to introduce or popularize some fisheries of the West Coast, he having been one uf the vanety of fish, make up a display of it in their shops, foremost authorities on salmon and other Pacific fish cooked and prepared for the table. Here's an idea of the present generation, and was_ head of the VVash­ which '':auld .appear worth having, although some diffi­ ington school of fisheries for a long pei-iod. Dean Cobb culty_ might ~e encountered in keeping cooked fish at­ was the author of many books dealing with the tractive after 1t has become cold. fisheries. , · F. IS CANNED FOODS BROKERS Specializing tn• Canned Fish 112 Market Street San Francisco, Calif. TELEPHONE DAVENPORT 5626 18 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES Important Post in Serving Industry­ the Manufacturers' Representatives SELLING COSTS HELD LOJV BY SCHEME OF DISTRIBUTION

ACIFIC COAST CITIES naturallv have several thorough interest in her work have made her well and P established nu~~ntfacturers' sales ~epresentatives, favorably known by customers and principals alike. each one of w-hom, through their offices and traveling Twenty years ago Mr. Sneve and Mr. John B: Meri­ salesmen, represent seyeral different manufacturers field 'vei-e fellow commercial-travellers and have been and thereby,. in particular, give a high class selling "cronies" ever since that time until now 1\1r. lVIerifield service to each factory at a decided saving. well qnalifies as the H. A. B. Sneve Company's s,ales For example, the H. A. B. Sneve Company (Factory manager. He is an eilergetic worker with· a thorough­ Agents of 1\!Iarine Supplies) of Seattle, San Francisco ness in his sales activities that can only be maintained and New Orlean.s,. represent some twenty different by one who is concerned in thoroughly posting himself 111anufacturing· co i1- on every line of en­ cerns, each one of deavour he tackles. which manufa'cturcs Their co-desire is to one or more maril1e make and keep their items. In place of firm name synonytn­ each one · of these ous .with the term twenty manufactLu·ers Service: having to have a sep­ 'rh e H. A.· D. itrate selling office and Sneve Company rep­ representatives on the resents the following Pacific C o a s t a n d well known manufac­ Gulf, their interests turers; are -directly furthered Dayton 1vlfg.- Co.i (N. by the H. A. B. SneYe W.), Builders Marine Hdw.; 1viaine Steel Pro­ Company on a brok­ ducts Co. (S. F.) Marine erage basis. This not Hardware- Drop F org­ only holds the se1ling ings; Columbian Bronze cost away below _,vhat Corp., Propellers - 1via­ rine Accessories; T h e it would cost the Thatcher Co., Mascot ma-nufacturers to Ship Ranges; Lobe e tuaintain their own Pump & Machinery Co., salaried salesmen; but Brass Gear and Rotary Pumps; "The LCctonia actually. renders the T'ool Co. (N. W.), Ma­ .trade a better service. -Photo by James rine, Railroad and Min- Instead of .the buyer & Merrihew. ing Tools, Zophar Iviills, . having to interview Inc., Ship Pitch-,-Turps JOHN B. H. A. B. SNEVE -Naval Stores; Albert twenty salesmen, his MERIFIELD Head of the Com-' Winslow Co., Northern dealings are with one Sales Manager, pany Bearing His Ash Oars-Canoe Pad­ (the factor .for them H. A. B. Sneve Co. Name dles; Geo. ·Kirby, Jr., Paint Co., Marine Paints; all). The factory is The East Hampton Bell Co., Bells and not only well posted on all manner of Gongs; A. E. Moeller Co., Barometers, tuarine materials but also under­ Thermometers, Hydrometers; VVm. S. Brus­ stands the problems, the joys and sor­ MISS J. H. WINTERS :;tar, Jr., Life Preservers-Buoys-.Kopak Se~:retary, H. A, B. Sneve Co. Jackets-Fenders; Star Compass Co., Spirit . rows confronting the distributor in Compasses; Portable Light Co., Search his territory which the factor covers Lights and Sirens; Isaacson Iron Works, so thoroughly. . Kedge and Anchors-Forgings-Navy & Babbitt AOcbors The factor (manufacturer's representatiVe) s~lls to -Steel Castings; Evans Manufacturing Co., Fishing .Swivels, 1 Rings-Spoons; Torrey Roller Bushing 'Narks, Sheaves, Bush­ i : the 1narine supply distributors and hardw~rc Jo_bbe:s ings-)ifarine Hanhvare; Philadelphia Hdwe. & Malleable Iron ! i for the manufacturer's accounts so that all mvmcmg 1s \Varies (N. \\T. & N. 0.) }.brine 1vlalleabli::s and Drop Forg~ ::·done by the manufacturer dire_ct to ti:e jO!)b~r: and to ings;St. Clair Iron \Vorks, Automatic Boat Bailers; Seattle . keep the factor posted at all tunes, ~11s pnnctp~ls \the Chain & 1-Hg. Co., Marine Chains-Rings, etc.; The Sea-Dog :manufacturers) mail the factor cop1es of all mvotces !;inc of Fishing Supplies, etc., Cast Bra§s Swivels, Snaps and ' and correspondence going into the factor's territory. Rings, Self-Lubricating Blocks, Brass Brailing Blocks, The lL A. B. Sneve Company have become well Brass Line Clamps, Steel Wire Cutting Pliers, Fish Gaffs and _. known· aS _aggressive and thorough sales people with 1\Ir. Spears, Rubber Trolling Tubing, Flax. Leader Line, Signal Horns and Whistles, Double Acting VVing PumpS, Ship's H. A. B. Sne'Ve as manager. tl'heir office management, Clocks, Barometers, Binoculars, Flags, Hooks, Lights. : , records, and bookkeeping are especially well attended The H. A. B. Sneve Company will have representative dis~ :by their very able secretary. lVriss J. H. \Vinters, whose plays at all three Pacific Boat Shows this .spring, namely Seat~ enviable knowledge of "things marineH and her tle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. W C F-Feb., 19.30-F F V

JF est Coast Fisheries presents here- } rvUh the IJlirtl installment of FFV- ··~ • • • <.!•• The BONITO tJw Encydopedra o-f the Flsh, Fnut { and F egetable Industries of tJw Jf7 est. iTS RANGE AND SEASON IN DOMESTIC AND CONTIGUOUS JJ7,11'ERS ON ITO is a Scombroid fish, but not a true B tuna. It is one of the species of most closely related to the tuna class, but this relation­ ll'l exican Range ship has been deemed not close enough to win it Opinion ;imong boatmen who have actually admittance to that restricted aristocracy among been on the grounds themselves is unanimous in fishes. Fiowever, to say that the Bonito is not a that bonito abound at least as far south as Turtle tuna docs not, per se, ·condemn it, nor even neces­ Bay. Captain J. Berntsen before quoted, tells that sarily reflect upon its quality or goodness. It will he has seen· them outside J\1agdalena Bay, but be remembered that the broaclbill swordfish lays never at the "Cape". claim to membership in the great brotherhood of "'l'he canneries g'et all their Bonito from J\1"exlco Scombroicls. The broaclbill most certainly is no now," states Captain Karmelich, who has run, tuna, yet it is doubted whether e\Tn the albacore tendering, to Cabo San Lucas anci intermediate has a greater following among epicureans than points during several seasons, "and the fishery has this same swordfish. two subdivisions. The first of these is made up of l~'ccleral regulations forbid the labelling of small boats that go to San Martin (Island) for bar­ Bonito as "Tuna". The ·name ":Bonito" must be racuda. They can't carry much of a load. Bonito the conspicuous '\vorcl on the can. 1-:lowever, is too low in price to give them a profit if thev there is no objcctir}n to the advertisement of carry it as a regular thing. But when they can't "Bonito-Tuna Style", for there is only truth in find barracuda they fill up with Bonito~anvthing such wording, Bonito actually being packed in to pay expenses, you know. During a year it O'"ood that wav. many such trips are made. · c Of all five commercial "" the Bonito is the "'l'hen there are the big- purse-boats. They carry only one that is essentially 'llOn-migratory. It is sixty or seventy tons. Even on a narrow ·mar()'"i;1 present on the coasts of California and JVIcxico of profit they can make money. There arc eight throughout the entire year, and seems proof ?r ten of these-the "Oakland," "Gallant,'' "Flam­ against the pelagic impulses that make vagabonds mgo," "Excellent," "\f./. F. \Vood," "Eight of his notional kin. However, the Bonito is much Brothers," "Alessandro" and the former Kodiak more abundant in summer than at other times, and Island salmon seiner, the "Amazon." The center it is then that its fishery is most active. of their operations is Cerros (Island) and the San Incidental catches of Bonita occur from time to Benitos (Islands). Last year all of them made time in sardine and mackerel seining, these casual heavy catches. 'rhey made a specialty of this par­ captives suffering the ill fortune of being pursed ticular activity." up at the very minute when they are fattening Nearly all o.f this seining is done durinu· clavlin·ht themselves on smaller species. Few such speci­ hours. This is because the fish schoot' clo~e in­ mens ever reach a can; Japanese fishermen seize shore-it is too dangerous to venture in among upon them with avidity and bear them away to the rocks at night \v:ith these large and costly ves­ their homes, for Orientals arc exceedingly fond of sels. Sometimes, of course, the fish are discovered Bonito, especially when fresh. in deep water, but the majority are found close to Domestic Range shore-"they run in big schools, too", says K.ar­ In the years when a local fishery was conducted melich. "I would say that August fifteenth to for this Scomber, the purse--boats went to look for October fifteenth is the time when the nms are them in the neighborhood of Point Conception. heaviest, but schools can be seen around the "It '\vas a -purse-seine fishery," an early netter islands all of the time." has said, ''\ve used to get good hauls off Point Says a cannery buyer***: "Bonito is a Cheap Conception and ncar Coil Oil Point. I never saw fish, comparati\'ely. Its price varies between fi.ftv schools north of Point Conception.-But there and eighty dollars a ton-I think that the "high;' were only one or two really good fishing seasons; for 1929 was seventy-five. When the lVIexican for the most part the business was very uncer­ duty was thirty-five dollars, hardly anything left tain."* for the fishermen, so they did not bring it up, Another says: HSanta Barbara to often. But now that the duty is clown to twenty­ Point Conception was the best ground for Bonito. seven dollars they have a better opportunity, and \7Ve used to go for them in September, after the last summer. several beats made a regular busi­ tuna run. In 1919 we did well-got about two ness of it. They all worked around Cerros (Is­ hundred and fifty tons off Santa Cruz Island and land) and the San Benitos (Islands). The Bonito north of the to'\vn of Santa Barbara; the price was school very close inshore, so the big high sixty dollars that year. I remember that 1923 was boats seldom get any." a good year, and we did pretty well in 1924, but A word must be said in respect to the relative 1928 and 1929 were very poor."** im:portance of the Bonito: It is least among the No southern limit is recognized for the local five commercial "tunas", when viewed from total distribution of the species. Schools of Bonito have landings of both local and distant fisheries. How­ been seen all along the coast, but the actual fishing ever, if strictly domestic fish be considered (and seems to have been restricted to the upper reaches high seas and Tviexican catches being disregarded), of the range. bonito outranks both albacore and yeilowfin. FFV, Sec. 17-Page 7 W C F-Feb., 1930-F F V 'II SARDINES (j i THEIR RANGE AND SEA.SON IN k1.·1 DOMESTIC AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS IJ LL SARDINES, from whatever country or liable criterion to suppose that because the first f A section of the globe they may come, belong to sardine cannery of California 'vas founded at S~n the great family of -like fishes. The orig­ Francisco that the original promoter supposed the II inal "sardine" of the 1\iediterranean, fished and waters outside Golden Gate to contain the most canned about the Island of Sardinia, is but one dense pilchard population of the coast. He prob­ relative of a great and extraordinary family. Nor­ ably had no such notion, and no doubt never gave II way's sprat is a herring, and the pict1ic fish of the the matter o't relative abundance a moment's State of l\{aine is frankly a herring and nothing thought. If there was fish enough there to occupy II but a herring. the modest institution that he had in prospect, he On the Atlantic coast of the United States there was satisfied. The chances are many that the II are others of this world-wide group that are not availability of cheap labor, handy power, water1 canned as sardines at all. For example, the men­ fuel and shipping ·facilities ,Vere the arguments !II haden (dubbed by the fishermen variously .as which caused the first pilchard packer to set up his pogie, porgie, moss-bunker, blue-back, fat-back, cati shop and cooking vats on the beach of San bug-eyes, buggies and bugs, not to mention a Francisco Bay. · dozen other monickers)-constitutes the basis ot The Plant illoves to tJze Fish the East Coast oil and meal business; then there But strong as may be the cotlsiclerations of at­ is the shad esteemed especially for its roe; there tendant convenienceS, a manufactory cannot suc­ are also the hickory-shad and the alewife (the lat­ ceed in town if the raw material is not obtainable ter being much utilized in the manufacture of es­ there. The pioneer canner found this out when he sense d' orient or pearl essence), 2.nd down in suddenly was unable to catch sardines enough to Florida, and even as far as Panama, the giant tar­ permit his continuance in business. He sold his pon carries the Hag of the herring famlly into the machinery, which ·was shippe-.9. to the more south­ world of port an<:!lers and rich idlers. Chile, New erly port of San Pedro, where other venturesome Zealand, South Africa, the Philippines, Japan and men had decided to undertake fish canning. San China all have some sort of herring, pilchard or Pedro was at that time wanting in many of the sardine, but not all of these are identical or even conveniences 'vhich San Francisco had offered, but similar in quality. From the standpoint of a food it had fish-and plenty of. it-so the second at­ delicacy, to be prepared and conserved as an arti­ tempt succeeded. This may be considered as the cle for human diet, the discovery was made long first definite locating of a point of dependable, sup­ ago that only certain of the many tribes or species ply of our Paci6c pilchards. of or herring-like fishes merited consider­ Arw/Jwr Center Discovered ation-these were the "true" sardines, of which About this time Frank E.' Booth took notice of the California fish is one. the astonishing masses of fish life ct bounding in U ndefinerl l n Extent Monterey Bay. Probably be did not sally out to VVhat may be the extreme limits of the range of discover whether or not there were other points of California sardines has not been determined. Scien­ greater concentration, but seeing a sufficient re­ tific men have not found excuse for investigating source immediately at hand, set about designing a the matter. and commercial interests have not means of utilizing it. As the reader already will bothered about it for the reason th::tt uncaught have learned, Booth's experiments w·ere made schools are common property. In the case of a shortly after 1900, and lVIonterev dates its lln­ resource such as timber or coal an operator at once equaled sardine development fronl about the yCar determines the extent of his holding. but no fish ] 905. 'I'hese happenings attest the discovery of canner troubles to survey a f-ishery which is as the second great area of commercial abundance of much the property of his competitor as his own. the species. I-Iowever, through the general broatlening of ex­ Sonthtvarcl Extension ploitation activities, pioneering is done, and data Shortly after the establishment of profitable relative to dispersion of a species eventually ac­ packing enterprises in San Pedro, attention was cumulates. Thus in speaking of the range of our directed to the neighboring port of San Diego. Pacific sardines no doubt the best treatment can-­ In the long, sand-shored estero which constitutes be given by following the history of the canneries, the bay there, acres of schooling fish could be seen. and seeing how they moved up and clown the These were then not utilized beyond totally neg­ coast, settling first at one bay and then at another, ligible quantities that were seined up by market trying to find out what and where the point of netters, and in those days the city of San Diego maximum abundance 'vas and is. \vas so small that the waters of the bay were· al­ Tlze Business Begz'ns In Town most wholly unpoluted-glistening clear and blue ]\fore considerations than merely the presence of beneath an eternally cloudless sky. Furtherniore, copious stocks of ra'v material enter into deter­ there was no drain upon the resource by live-bait mining the situation of a manufacturing plant. boats such as nearly monopolize it now, and other Labor, power, water, transportation and other ele­ present obstacles of a number of sorts were en­ ments are critical, hence it is not an entirely re- tirely absent and unforeseen in that early day. Page 8-FFV, Sec. 17 IF C F-Feb., 193U-l<' l<' r

During a considerable period the sout11ern fac­ firmed the notion in Monterey that the bigger tories contributed a \vorthy percentage of the total craft would not function there. riovden put the pack of the state, but in modern times this propor­ old bug-a-boo to flight by catching more fish with tional participation has dwindled until to overlook his big turn-table craft than anyone, which dem­ it entirely would not now be a serious error.. How­ onstration set up a wave of popularity that has re­ ever, it should not be inferred that sardines no sulted in nearly twenty of the large Diesel boats longer are found off San Diego. Rather say that going to :Monterey to fish-even Sicilians and they are being utilized othcnvise than for canning, Italians of the port having now been converted to and that the factot;es are being busied with other the proven type. matters than processing pilchards. Candor demands that an additional fact be Despite the economic phases of the case, and pointe(l out in this matter, and that is that during the condition of the fishery· at this mOment of the last four years the size of ne1.vlv launched writing, San Diego merits it1clusion in the sardine purseboats had increased more than 100:/o a year. area, not as a major producer of the canned article, That is to say, in the old days, when California but because the fish have been caught there in first welcomed salmon and herring pur;;;e-craft that quantity and still are being so caught for other came southward in winter from Alaska and Puget than canning purposes. Sound, few of the hulls were compe-'::ent to cargo It can be stated that in general the Pacific sar­ more than thirty or thirty-five tons. Even these dine fishery is being dedicated to three separate were thought veritable arks in those times, vvhere­ ends: In the extreme south to bait: in the ex­ as now they are almost too small to operate profit­ treme north to making oil and meal; in the cen­ ably. Recent tendencies in boat building on the tral section to canning, and to making oil and California coast have been for ever larger capacity. ·meal. The hulls that have been construct(~cl here have San Pech·o Talws the Leatl demonstrated that fact in more than a hundred Concentration of the fish canning business at recent cases, and to the tune of several millions of San Pedro and along the channels running behind dollars in invested capital. One of the early it (Long Beach and ·wilmington) produced there "giant" purse-seiners was the "\iVilbur P. _\i\Tood," a great boom in the pilchard industry. Boosted which instead of having a carrying capacity of along by profits from tuna-packing, canners en­ m'1ly thirty tons, could stow a hundred tons larged or rebuilt, little one-room outfits becoming· aboard. Others even larger follo\ved, until now extensive institutions covering acres of ground. there remains nothing remarkable about the "\i\Til­ Albacore and the other tunas occupied the plants bur F. Vlood" except the fact that it was first in during summer, but sardines came into their own its class two or three years ago. Vessels that with the autumnal disappearance of the big scam­ carry a hundred and fifty tons are at present too braids, and were the sole support of the trade dur­ common to excite comment; every occasion when ing winter. Fifteen or twenty new companies en­ large hauls are made by the fleet several such in­ tered the field, and San Pedro became the center of dividual cargoes come to port. fish canning in the western hemisphere. To a con­ It is these big vessels that have \vorked won­ siderable e.xtent the VVorld VVar and its attendant ders at J\.'fonterey. Their effect has been to elevate but temporary profits \Vas responsible; the growth that port to pre-eminence on the coast, establish­ was sudden, abnormal, a sort of unhealthy boom. ing there a one-clay catch record of three thousand Post-1var contraction in business resulted in a re­ two hundred tons in February of 192R, and a sec­ duction in the number of individual operators, but ond record of four thousand tons in late Jan nary the scope of operations continued increasing, ex­ of 1930. Through their influence the palm has cept for a temporary recession in 1921. San Pedro been wrested from San Pedro and transferred to was far in the lead as the chief sardine producer of J\{onterey, which at the present moment appears the coast; it established new catch and pack rec­ to be the hub of pilchard distribution in California ords; it was recognized ,evet-y,vhere as the canned waters. fish capital of America and the pilchard port of all BaitMBoats and Bait time. Observers believed that the point of maxi- The building of large boats was not confined to I 1nttm abundance for the species had been fixed. purse-seine types. Indeed, it had its greatest ex­ ltfonterey Changes Boat. Types emplili.cation in the instance of the off-shore tuna I In 1927 a revolutionary event took place at the cruisers, the live-bait operators that g-o voyaging old Spanish and }\fex:ican pueblo of I'vTontcrey, and down-coast to ~'Jap-pole" yellowfin and I all previous concepts upset as to where California·'s on the high seas. As has been outlined before, sardines were to be found most densely congre­ the developm~nt of this type of fishing ship was I gated. K. Hovden, of the K. I-Iovden Company, the direct result of oppressive regulations suffered at that time gave the San Pedro type of pilchard by American operatives at the hands o{ JVIe:xican purse-seine boat its first test at night fishing in officials. \Vhereas previously California canners I l\1onterey Bay. Until that time precedent and had been compelled to obtain their fish by bringing tradition (and the appalling static inertia which it ashore in 1\!fcxko (or within the territorial juris­ l South European fishermen characteristically pre­ diction of that country, if not actually to the Sent in opposition to all ne'\v ideas), had prevented shore) by the expedient of building sea-going ves­ l the adoption of any boat-type in the pilchard work sels, sturdy and able, they circumvented the con­ excepting their own little lampara outfits having stant aggravation of having to deal continuously hand-hauled gear. Scandinavian and Austrian with an inconstant set of foreign statutes and an fishermen had long used the more effective purse­ exacting and officious group of enforcement ~ seine vessels at San Pedro, but prejudice had con- ofii.cers. I FFV, Sec. 1.7,-Page 9 b._ W C F-Fel>., 1930-F F V

Initial experiments proved the efficacy of the where replenishment of bait-tanks is usually pos­ plan. First boats built were highly successful, sible. and an automobile salesman could find no prospect "But you can't always count on it for much," half so good as a tuna fisherman. Seeing the prac­ warned the same informant. " 'IVIost always there ticality of this mode of emancipating the industry is bait there, but often you can't find more than from excessive foreign taxation, canners, individ­ just a few small schools. I never depend on it, uals and groups of fishermen ordered new , but sometimes it helps out in a pinch. There until the yards o:f the builders were clogged with aren't so many real sardines in that bait, anyway, long keels all the way from San Diego to Blaine. as farther north and at Turtle Bay." \Vhcn- the new fleet '\vas launched, its operations Indeed, l\1agdalena Bay is the point usually made an immediate impression on the market. given as the southward limit of the California sar­ Shore stations were discontinued, and l\'Iexico was dine. From there onward the temperature of the faced with a loss of all tuna revenue. Remember­ sea rises noticeably, full tropical conditions pre­ ing, perhaps, the old Spanish maxim of "Ya que vailing at Cabo San Lucas, a haH clay's run south. 1a casa se quema, calentemonos" ("\Veil, now that One report came ln of true sardines having been the house is burning dmvn. ·we might as \veil warm seined on the beach off Todos Santos, but most our hands"), 11exico made overtures to the cap­ fishermen to whom the matter has been referred tains and owners of the high-seas ships, offering for criticism have been inclined to discredit the to sell them licenses to enter J'v:Iexic;:~n territorial story. \Vater for the purpose of catching live bait, in con­ "However," said one navigator, "I would be the icleration of a nominal fee. Some vessels accepted. last man to gainsay anyone who came back from From them we have information of bait conditions down there with wild stories, for I have one of all along the Baja California coast. my O\Vn to tell: I once made a ii.ne ·catch of what ll/(~xicrm Bail. Centers looked like promising-· live bait, there off Todos South of the international boundary no sardine Santos. Another boat came along that hadn't had schooling grounds of consequence occur until San as good luck as we, so we gave them some of our I\1artin Island and the bay of San Ouintin are bait. v..r e laid together that night, anchored off reached. One or two fishing skipper'S' have told the shore, and in the morning: not >·a fish was left the ·writer of having seined up a Icw scoops of in the tanks. \Ale found one on deck; we figured bait there, inshore along the barracuda grounds. he got stuck in the scupper tryit1g to walk over­ None ever remarked on having taken sardines in­ board. side of San Ouintin. ''Getting hait below the sardine line is a ·crazy The next ·~pot where fry are known to gather business," he concluded. is Turtle Bay, famous resort of the ancient whal­ Late in the fall of 1929 several fishermen 1verc ing fleet. Turtle Bay has miles of broad beach heard talking about bait supplies in the Gulf of sweeping around its northward and eastward California. They related having seined up quan­ sides; when the tide is out this beach is exposed tities of fry suitable for their purposeS at a variety for a great distance. In the shallo\vs over these of points along the eastern shore of the Peninsula. sands the sardines gather in numerous schools, But although they were at first speaking loosely often being mixed with anchovies and the young and referring to the fish either as "sardines" or of fishes such as those that the l'viexicans call "gal­ "bait," when it came to a point of ~lefinitely saying los" (roosters), because of the comh-like dorsal that the individual fish had been recognized as the fins and 11 toros" (bulls), for no reason at all that real California sardine, none would \:-ouch for the the writer could ever discover, and a large assort­ fact. ment of perches and small shad-like forms having "Bait is bait," said one of them. "\Vhether it cerrated bellies and bone-plated hearls. It is a was sardines or something else I don't exactly re­ queer and mixed lot of sea-life that the live-bait member. But-to tell you the truth," he affirmed, boats net from the shoals of Turtle Bay. after a moment's hesitancy, "I kind of recollect J\tlany vessels have gone to that beach for bait. that they \Vas mostly anchovies, now that I come The writer has seen ten or a dozen of them man­ to think of it. Anyhow, there's too darn many euvering just beyond the surf during early da\vn funny-looking kinds of fish down there for a fel­ of an autumn day, and considering the fact that low to try to remember much about them!" he tuna operations have become almost an all-year declared, ~ts if in self-defense, when the strain had business, the quantity of fry that the vessels carry become too great. away from "The Bay of the Turtles" is to be com­ Hueneme Development, puted into a large total. San Pedro and Long Beach cannery men took Several captains have come into Fish Harbor action, in the summer of 1929, on a fact long recog­ with loads of tuna said to have been taken with nized in the pilchard fishery: That the bulk of bait found in a wide variety of places along the San Pedro's fish was freighted to port aboard the J\1exican coast south of Turtle Bay. fishing boats from a point of capture approxi­ "You can find bait almost anywhere along those mately one ·hundred miles to the northward. In southern beaches if you are lucky," one of them earliest times, before the canneries \vere so large remarked. "Sometimes you run into schools and or so many, and before annual harvests \vere reck­ schools of sardines and those other small fish all oned in millio·ns and millions of pounds, little alba­ the way down to Cape San Lazaro, and at other core boats dodged in and out of Fish I-Iarbor, times there won't be a sign of one for three hun­ bringing in what stocks of raw material the fac­ dred miles." tories needed. These modest outfits-few of them 11agdalena Bay is, however, another place cargoing more than ten to twenty-five tons- Page 10-FFV, Sec. 17 Jr1 C F-Feb., 1930-F F V found schools numerous right in San Pedro 1va~ Booth Bnilds at Pittsbnrg ters, or a little distance either up or down coast, \i\Then the Monterey purse-boats began running off Redondo, Santa Ivlonica, Seal Beach or Hunt­ past the entrance to the Golden Gate, northward ington Beach. Gradually the fish became scarcer bound .in quest of pilchards, packers having estab­ on the home grounds, trips were lengthened month lishments within San Francisco precincts took no­ by month, and at last the distances to be traversed tice of the fact. F. E. Booth saw the opportunity became so great that only the big purse-seiners. that was escaping him, and determined to capital­ having galleys and sleeping quarters a board, large ize upon it. Accordingly he commenced the re­ capacity, and black-oil engines could compete. building of his salmon and shad cannery at Pitts­ At present the earliest fish all come from the burg, a short distance up the Sacramento River vicinity of Santa Cruz Island, which is in the from San Francisco Bay, and made elaborate neighborhood of one hundred miles from Fish preparations for launching into the pilchard pack­ Harbor. l\Iore than that, it is to Santa Cruz ing. His situation was peculiar in several re­ Island that the captains go in search of fares when spects, but by adopting a system of transporting the fish stage a general disappearance act. Beyond vessels that operated in conjunction with a fleet question it is the major contributor to the San of small seiners he has succeeded in achieving the Pedro packers, and it was because of this eviUent desired reult. Now the Booth boats are running circumstance that the men before mentioned in and out of Golden Gate, just as did the craft of elected to locate at IIueneme, a cove that can be the first sardine canner of California. Immense reached from this most productive of all southern resources hav.e been surveyed out by the fishing pilchard grounds by a run of only an hour or two. captains, and all of them declare that there is nO Their selection of Hueneme as a site (although it place on the coast of this State now known to the is inconveniently situated for obtaining fuel, water, round-haul net-men where such big fish, and such labor, shipping facilities, cans and other essen­ fat fish, can be found so consistently as on these tials), is an indication that thev consider the ad­ northern grounds. 1vlany believe that there are vantage of being close to the ·area of maximum more and better fish in this area than anywhere to fish production as outweighing secondary consid­ southward. The rather common accePtance of erations. In other words, their action in separat­ this hpyothesis has turned inquiring eyes still ing from the convention'al San Pedro location in­ further up-coast, and now one hears talk of pos­ dicates what and where, in their judgment, is the sible development at a number of remote places. center o£ sardine a)bundance in southern Cali­ J\1eanwhile, considerable attention is being accord­ fornia. ed to San Francisco as a likely cannery site by firms already in the business. There seems some The Gulf of the Farallones likelihood that the Bay may yet participate in the Even before the advent of purse-seiners at 1\Jon­ industry which had its ignominious commence­ terev, it was discovered that during times when ment there forty-five years ago. sard.ines could not be found within tl~-e hay, a s hart Eu,.eka, Fort Bragg, Coos Hay run to the north would often bring the boatmen to Salmon trollers, paranzella-trawl skippers, rich fishing. The small lampara rigs took to coastwise navigators and steam-schooner men arc cruising outside whenever local dearth prevailed, all joining in the general discussion of what could some of them running as far up-coast as Half be done with sard-ines in ports ·which in years past 1\Ioon Bay for fares. Exactly the same thing oc­ have been known only for the cargoes of lumber curred there as has happened at San Pedro-the and poles that they contributed to the building trips at last became so extended that the little trades of the ·world. There arc stories about sil­ gasoline outfits, entirely without quarters or con­ very miles of sea-great acres of schooling pil­ veniences aboard, finally found themselves unable chards-that sheet the ocean over. off the Eureka to further widen their sphere of operations. Hov­ bar. Fort Bragg is another place i:his is described den apparently was first to see and comprehend as likely, and Coos Bay (Empit·e, North Bend, this situation, for he set the popular example by and Thiarshfield) all are drawn into thf:', discussion. obtaining bigger and more able turn-table craft to Credence in these as likely locations is doubtless carry on the long-distance work. strengthened by the common kno\vleclge that a 'I'he purse-boats have operated close to home rich fishery exists for the pilchard in waters still whenever the fish have been in evidence there; farther north, wherefore it is easy for many to in­ during scarcity they have gone out upon the open fer that intermediate reaches of coastline should sea, cruising up to Pigeon Point, Half :Moon Bay, likewise produce the species. 1\loreoyer. ·this man­ the Farallone Islands, and even as far as Point ner of reasoning is bolstered somewhat by the ad­ Reyes. They are therefore frei•Thting their fish ditional iact that some years ago attempts were about one hundred miles-the sn~ne distance that actually made to instilutc sardine canning· at sev­ San Pedro packers have to travci for theirs. eral points along the Oregon and \~Tashington ?trangely enough, it seems that the point of max­ coasts. Imum abundance lies, in the case of each of the The \Vorld \\Tar caused manv natinns to make ports, to the north. The great schooling area of an inventory of resources, thiS being especially northern California-speaking o[ the fishery in its true in the matter of animal fats and greases. present state of development-is, unquestionably, Ge~·many unquestionably was the most distressed the Gulf of the Farallones. J'viontercv T:L:ry lies ow1ng to shortage of these so ncce~sary substances only s1ightly beyond the southern ecli:;e of this, -and as a result developed remarkable machinery and may almost be considered as a sort o[ de­ and apparatus to salvage them from what ha~l tached portion of it. hitherto been neglected waste. Other countries, FFT', See. 1.7-Page 1.1 IF C F-Feb., 1980-F F V in less dire straits but nevertheless on shortened hue's provision to insulate their bOdies from the allowance, began investiga_tions designed to un­ frigidity of the sea, the masses of fat in the tissues cover ways of supplementing national stocks 01 of the fish serving to protect them from the intense fat. cold. Canada was one of these. It turned at once to Regional Characteristics its fisheries, and found there a suitable and unused Observant fish captains have noted that in l\Tex­ resource. This was the pilchard of British Co­ ico sardines are found only in bays, over sanely lumbia, large, fat, abundant and easily taken. 'Ex­ bottom. In the north, schools often are encoun~ ploitation soon commenced. tered miles at sea. To some this has seemed para­ Canadian utilization of the pilchard proves the doxical, but perhaps the explanation is simple. presence of the fish at least as far north as Van­ The southern fish are aU comparatively small, couver Island, where is the seat of the British Co­ hence naturally seek the protection of a ~shelving lumbia activity. There it serves as the basis for beach. 'r-he farther north one travels, the larger a large oil and meal industry, comparable to our and fatter the f1sh become, until maximum sizes Atlantic institution of menhaden reduction. The and ·weights are met with in the fishery of Van­ fish in that latitude are so excessively rich in oil couver lsland. Naturally the adults venture far­ that their worth for the production ~of bulk fats ther from the shore than do the fing·erlings. overbalances their value to the country as a A second consideration is that along Baja Cali­ canned article. fornia the bottom descends to great depths a short The Ext,rerne Nm·th distance from land. It is a conspicuous fact that both of the present California fishing grounds lie \Vhether the sardine ranges northward of Cana­ over extensive shoals-the first beirig -the Santa dian territory, and is to be found in Alaskan wa­ Cruz Island, Santa Rosa Island, AnaC'apa Island ters seems not to be known. Ship captains have "flateJJ; the second being on the broad shallows come into Seattle with accounts of having steamed surrounding the Farallone Islands. Puget Sound through large masses of schooling iish in the off­ and the straits leading from it offer other areas of shore waters of the southeast district, but whether bottom less than a hundred fathoms deep, and what they saw were really sardines, as they southeast Alaska has square leagues of such banks. averred, or groupings of herring, tom cod, silver In the far north schools might be almost out of hake or some other sort that abounds plentifully sight of land although in water of only fifty or in those populous waters is still open tn question. sixty fathoms, whereas a short swim from the T'his can be said, however, that nearlv all of the Baja California shore might easily put the fish tribes constituting, collectively, the herring or over water a mile deep. herring-like family are conspicuously non-sensi­ Legal Seasons tive sorts. \~Thereas some of the tunas and others of the scombroids seem unable to endure any varia­ California's pilchard fishery has been d\videcl tion in temperature or other external cot;clitions, into two parts, it having been considered that the_ the herrings appear not to mind wide variances in southern and northern precincts require dissimilar ocean conditions. They travel around, enjoying regulation. To the former belong San Diego,·" life in both tropical and frigid seas .. and swarm Newport, Long Beach, VVilmington, San Pedro·· happily in all intermediate waters. Like thc- hu­ and Hueneme. The northern sector contains · man animal, they are highly adaptable, making l\{onterey and San Francisco. themselves at home ·wherever they chance to be. By statute the legal fishing season in the south This acclimatization is effected b); a laying on or begins on the first day of November u.nd closes on taking off of fat, according to what may be the the last day of March. In the north the corre­ exterior conditions surrounding the animal. In sponding elates are the first of August and the fif­ this regard the herrii1gs and sardines merely avail teenth of J1'ebruary. These periods ho\vever, are themselves o£ an expedient which is common not not to be accepted as indicative of the exact sea­ only to their family, but to the salmons and sal­ sonal abundance of fish at the various ports; statu­ monoids generally, and even to the whales and tory definition of seasons is nothing more than an porpoises, \vhich are not fish at all, but mammals. announcement of the time during v,rhich the gov­ ernment of the state will permit exploiters to take nelation of Fatness to Ternperature of the people's fish; it reflects an effort toward In general the rule holds that the higher the conservation by seeking to protect the resources latitude the richer the f-ish. 1~hus on the Atlantic at whatever time fishing operations seem most coast many epicures refuse to touch the first destructive to it. spring mackerel that are landed at Cape 1\lay in_ As a matter of fact, sardines are to be seen on April or l\{ay of each year. T·hey deem this fish the grounds at intervals throughout the whole too dry, too fatless, a mere fibrous husk. Later, year, and in times past (before statutory enact­ howeYer, when the schools have swum into the ment shortened the season) .1\Iay was often a Gulf of l\daine and had time to fatten there, they month of heavy production at San Pedro. How­ are deemed the finest delicacy that the sea has to ever, late spring seining was usually greatly cur­ oHer to discerning man. Likewise, in the case of tailed by many boats giving up the work in order In the case of the California sardine a like con­ to haul out and re-rig the tuna catching, which dition prevails.. Off Baja California Lhe fry of the begins in late l\.fay or during June. For this rea­ species arc as lean as a ?\'Iexican cow-puncher; in son commercial operators have never demonstrat­ their extreme northward range they are of the ed exactly what is the termination of the period rotund fatness of an Eskimo. It is merely na- of natural abundance.-G. H.. C. r'age 12-FFV, Sec. 17 Jl',l!..LillVAl\.~, L7illl Establishing and Applying Common Sense to Boat Operation

DO YOU W;lNT TO KNOW HOW FAST YOUR FlSII BOAT CAN OPERATE? By ARTHUR BENNE'I''I' l'rncticul l\lurinll Designer

N THE NEW YEAR'S ISSUE oi this magazine I in minutes and seconds into miles or knots simply by I wrote an article regarding practical ways to solve timing your boat over a mile or knot, and then after problems relative to kinds of boats' designs 'to choose making notes of the actual time required for the boat the best to satisfy a purpose that you might have in to go this distance, look for the intersection of the mind; and in it efficiency was mentioned, and in this minutes with the seconds and simply read, and the fig­ article I wish to touch somewhat more fully upon this ure read will be the speed in knots per hour, if the last phase of the problem. course was run in knots, or in miles if run in miles. If we were to buy an automobile nowadays that the For instance, a boat makes a knot against a tide, manufacturer claimed was up-to-date and we discov­ we will say, in 7 Tvi and 30 S. And in order to get a ered that he had failed to install a speed indicator or . correct check on this knot, the course must be made speedometer as it is called in this case, we would im­ the return way, to counteract the action of the tide. mediately return for a modern and proper installation. This return is made in 7 lvi Hat and the two wavs are An lntportant 'Function made in 14 lVI and 30 S and by dividing by h~ro we This speedometer plays quite an important part in get the average, or 7 }\'[ and 15 S. Now read dmvn the the intelligent operation of the automobile and it IS minute column under the 7 heading until you come from it that we come to the intersection of to a definite conclus­ the 15 in the second sion as to the relia­ column and you will bility and economical see that the average opefation of our ve­ speed has been 8.276 hicle. knots. trhe p u r c h a s­ F o r convenience I ing of a boat repre­ \viii a 1 so reproduce sents many times the data of the trials of investment placed in the 1\f. V. "Aiderod" an automobile, yet and the manner of the points as outlined plotting t h e Charac­ above are in m o s t teristic P e r f o r m- cases entirely over­ ''H: fi ance Curve. By con­ lOoked and the owner ···.· ..,. sulting the Self-Com­ is satisfied to t a k e puting Table of con- what he gets, as the . >!:L ; \'Crsion of m i n u t e s result of the product .:u-; and seconds into :.·'. of his endeavors, yet .:.,.. :- knots per hour you - :: t by a simple principle .·; ·will see exactlv how he would be able to +1'-:;_; ,.;, the curve was };lotted, establish data t h a t ancl by using the same would be equally as reliable in its results in the effi­ procedure you can obtain the chat·acteristic curve of cient operations of a boat as the speedometer is in the any boat by using similar data and making sim- operation of the automobile. ilar trials. It is the purpose of this article to point out in as lllustl"lztive Trials simple a manner as is .possible what is necessary to Five trial trips orer a nautical mile were held and establish the data that would be required to make it were made as follows: possible to tell yolt many things as to operation pro­ First trip over at 200 RPM Elapsed time 8 M, 51 S First trip back at 200 RPM Elapsed time 7 M, 49 S cedures, so you may know what to expect from your TOTAL TIME 16M, 40 S boat under the many conditions that may arise from AVERAGE TIME 8 M, 20 S time to time. I will endeavor to point. out several Consult table and you ·will find under 8 minutes, 20 questions that can be intelligently answered by the seconds, 7.2 knots and on your characteristic curve you application of the principles as outlined in this data will find the point as Riven at Location No. 1. sheet. Second trip over at 225 RPM Elapsed time 7 M, 36 S Second trip back at 225 RPM Elapsed time 6 M, 40 S \Vhen the trials of a boat are to be held if you \Vill TOTAL TIME 14 M, 16 S Proceed along the lines as outlined in the following AVERAGE TIME 7 M, 8 S You ·will secure the desired results: By consulting the table under 7 minutes and 8 sec­ For convenience, and to enable you to establish a onds you will find speed of 8.411 knots, and this is your bctt~d understanding of this article, I have compiled a second location as shown on the characteristic curve. ready reckoning table that will convert elapsed time The third trip over and back averaged 6 minutes and 26 TilE WEST COAST FISIIERIES

same propeller 325 RPlVI, then we "can be reasonably sure of getting the 11-knot speed, and while this is not actually exact, it is very close and much better than snap judgment. Econornical Standpoint Now let us look at it from the economical stand­ point. By studying- the curve you '\Vill see that for a gain of the first 25 revolutions we have gained from 7.2 to 8.4 knots, or 1.2 knots. For a gain of the next 25 revolutions we gain 1.0 knots, for the next 25 \Ve gain 0.75 knots, and for the next 25 only 0.50 knots. By this we can see that it is more economical to run at t h e lower speeds READY RECKONING TABLE than it is at the faster specclsy and also de­

4 min. 5 min. 6 min. 1 min. 8 min. 9 min. 10 min. ll min. 12 min. cide that the hull has reached a point that 15.000 12.000 10.009 8.571 7.500 6.667 ILOOO fiA55 5.000 H.!li\8 11.960 !l.!l72 8.551 7.'18·1 ll.654 5.D!JO 5.H6 4.!JU:I it cannot be propelled H.S76 11.!)21 9.!M5 8.5111 7.46!} 6.6·12 5.!)80 5.4:18 .UJsn 14.815 11.881 9.!l17 8.1ill 7.453 H.G:Jo 5.970 5..130 •L!l7!J at any greater speed 1-1.754 11.8•12 !).890 8..!!11 7.4118 6.618 5.!160 5,·122 4,072 without a great sacri­ H.6!J·j. 11.803 !l.BG8 8.'171 7..128 G.HOU 5.!!50 5.41•1 4.065 fice of power. H.6il·1 11.765 ll.83G 8..1fi1 7.407 6.5!!3 5.!)-11 5.405 •Ul5!J 1-1.575 11.726 !!.BOll 8,·1:!1 7.:1ll2 li.581 5.!J31 5.3!)7 4.1152 If the c u r v e has a H.51U 11.1)88 !J.71:l:l S..tll 7.877 li,56!J 5.!121 5,l\8!} 4.!1-15 }.1..158 11.650· H.7fi6 s.:m2 7.!162 1).557 5.011 5.381 .J.0:\8 tendency to assume a decided upward direc~ tion on the high rev~ olutions, then the e£~ ficiency o I operation is low; if, on the oth~ er hand, it t e n d s to still carry on in a hor~ izontal direction, the· efficiency is greater. In other words, a flat nearly h o r i z on tal curve m e an s effi~ ciency and a ne:1rly perpendicular one in­ dicates inefficiency. vVh.ile I h a v e not covered the possibil­ ities of t h,i s charac­ t e r i s t i c curve very fully, and w hi 1 e the curve aS laid out ·was only done for iii ustra~ tio1l purposes, yet: if a boat owner w o tt 1d p r o c e e d to get the above data, iLs ap­ i.UHO 6.7!!2 G.l 02 plicable to hi s boat, 7.H•l.'l ll. 780 j).Of)l 7.627 6.767 6.081 and this cl at a estab­ 7.611 6.75-1 6.071 7.5H5 ll.7-12 G.IH!l lished by a series of 7 ."5-T!l- li./2\)~ if:r\5(\ trials, as I first: out­ 7.fiH:l B. 71H G.!J.lO 7 .5.J7 li.'iO·I fi.oao lined, placing- it under 7.5:11 fl.li!Jl !i.020 g l a s s in his p i 1 o t 7.fil6 (;,(j7!) 6.010 house, it w· o u I c1 be be found to be a ver}' much-needed article as he got acquainted with its possibilities I haYe tried not to be too technical in this descrip~ tion, as those of my readers who arc capable of fig­ uring such problems \Vill di;:;cover, but I have endeav~ ored to place this in a way that anyone can understand ·without being blessed ·with this pa1:ticular technical ttW dcrstanding, and while there are other things that might be considered, still, the procedure as Outlined will be understood by anyone with ordinary experience. (This is the third o( a series of articles by l\tlr. Bew nett.-Editor.) JlEHl(UAI.Ct:, .lYi1U Fish Boat Bttilding Activities tn• Sottthern ·California Yards

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UDGE A MAN by the money he spends-an indus­ J try by the investments it makes. Inclu5try that puts its earnings right back into improvements and expan­ sions which arc in line ·with sane and business-like procedure is bound to thrive, and at the same time keeps the dollar in circulation, ·which -economic ex­ perts tell us is yital to the prosperity of the nation. Southern California fishermen ·were doing just that long before President 1-Ioover's now-famous conference with the business leaders of the country in an effort to coax the American dollar out of its retirement and into A 11 01 action and thus stimulate "good times." Now that d Schooner Tuna Tender -Sunset Photo ~ President Hoover's part has been played and the busi­ ~!8iiiii'1J®I®!j13'il@li'tUI®I!"R]Itc ·ness leaders have gone back to their respective busi- :zjj!@I!R'ii@lroJI@I@i®!i'RIIM'lltf 23 1' H b W b :S 1' {; U" A :S 1' I•' 1 :S H b li l b S nesses and told their company dollars to get to work, already has been ordered, some twenly fishing boats in it is no n1ore than right that fishermen's part in this big the yards of San Pedro, \iVilmington, Long Beach and drama-begun before and without the aid of the recent San Diego. These boats range from 76 feet to 120 feet presidential exhortation, and based upon sound econ­ in length, and in value up to $100,000. Taking $50,000 nomic desirability-should be recorded. as a very conservative average cost, this addition to the The story which will be told on these pages is not a fleet requires. in round figures, an expenditure of rehash of the great evolution of fishing boats in Cali­ $1,000,000. fornia fron1 tiny gasoline launches to huge, Diesel­ And this does not sCem to be near the end of it. driven, ocean-going clippers-which everyone should Serious words are being passed about at boat yards, know by this time-but an account of what is actually docks and canneries, where fisherm,ei1 meet, of more taking place today. and greater boats to be built this summer. But more 'I'here are no\V under actual construction or lumber of this when the words are on paper.

White Star Scenes at the "White Star" launching: Left, Mike Rados, superintendent; John Rados, proprietor, and Jack Hamilton, office manager. Top, left to rig-ht, launching the boat and on the ways. Below, two side vit:\VS of her launched at S. P. in the yard. Star,JJ and also the HChicken of the Sea/1 which the HARBOR BOAT BUILDING CO. Morgan brothers are having built in Wilmington, that FASHIONS BIGGEST SEINER both are named after leading Van Camp brands. These two brands are among the oldest under which Cali­ fornia tuna is merchandised and were registered in 1912. 'WHI'I'E STAR," biggest of the purse-seiners, The "White Star" will be driven by a 350-h.p. Atlas commemorating the famous \Tan Camp Sea Imperial, six-cylinder Diesel engine, aided b:f. a three­ Food Co., Inc., brand by that name, slid down into the cylinder LJ.5-h.p. Diesel auxiliary, connected to a 25- \Vater at the Harbor Boat Building Company yard at kilowatt generator. The main engine will also operate Terminal I slancl, Calif., as the sun pierced the fog of a 20-kilo\vatt generato·r. VVestinghouse motors will an early Sunday morning, Feb. 9. The craft of 105 operate the auxiliaries, which also include two five-inch feet in length, 26 feet in beam and 12 feet in depth Byron-Jackson pumps. is perhaps one of the largest purse-seiners ever built. She is certainly one of the most graceful of the big New ln... .:;u.lalioll, boats which will ride the seas out of San Pedro, whether Insulation of the hold will be effected with Torfolcum in searCh of sardines or tuna. which John Rados, manager of the Harbor yard, de­ Nick Baskovich, marine superintendent of Van clares he has had tested with excellent results. The Camps, is the backer of the enterprise, with K. Cesareo, "\Vhite Star" "\vill be the first fishing boat in Southern of the ' 1 Cieopatra," as partner and captain. The boat California to be insulated with this material, although will be commissioned about the latter part of 1\ifarch. it also has been secured bv the Los Angeles Shipbuild· The early-morning setting for the ceremony \Vas ing & Drydock Corporatl~n for its bo;t, ust. 11 necessary in order to catch the hig-h tide, according to folimving the 11 \i\Thite Star" closely into the \Vater. . Jack Hamilton, genial office manager of the I-Iarbor capacity of the il\\Thite Star's" hold will be approx:t­ Boat Building Company. However, early risers were mateiy 14.0 tons of iced fish. Refrigeration will be sup­ rewarded by the pleasing picture of the "\iVhite Star" plied by a five-ton ice machine. slipping into Fish I-Im·bor, after being christened by The fuel capacity of the new boat is 15,000

FOR KLE!VIENTO ZAR the Los Angeles Ship- building & Drydc:ick Corporation is nearing com­ pletion building of the "St. Joseph," a 76-foot purse­ seiner which will be added to the fleet fishing for the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc. The craft is the first to be constructed at the San Pedro yard by Arthur Bennett, veteran northen,1 boat builder, ·who last year became superintendent of the small boat division of the shipyard. The "St. Joseph" will be ready for sea early in April, it is anticipated, as launching was contemplated for about the middle of February. One of the unique features of Zar's craft is a flaring bow above the water line. The total cost of the boa! is approximately $45,000. She ,\rill be powered with a 260-h. p. Western En­ terprise Diesel engine and with a 30-h. p. auxiliary of The keel is laid for the new boat at the Harbor Boat Building Co. yard the same make. An ice machine of three-ton capacity also will carry 4,000 gallons of water. Her cruising will provide refrigeration and the hold will be insulated radius will be in the neighborhood of 6,000 miles, at with Torfoleum, a substitute for cork. The hold will 12 knots. In general, the craft has an exceptional carry about 85 tons of iced fish. The beam of the carrying capacity in view of her size and graceful lines. craft is 22 feet and her depth 10:6 feet. Captain Zar will Carry a crew of eleven men. To Seine First, Acconunodations of the boat comprise a captain's Purse-seining will be the first activity to be engaged cabin and one large stateroom, as well as galley and in by the boat, which Capt. Cesareo will operate \Vith other usual quarters. a crew of eleven or twelve men, the capacity being Iv[r. Bennett states that the designed cruising speed fourteen men. A turntable, therefore, will be installed of the boat is approximately 10 knots. She will carry in the place of live-boat tanks, although there will. be 8000 gallons of fuel, 1000 gallons of water and will be wells for bait in the hold. Tanks may be added later able to cruise for' several thousand miiCs. 'I'he hun­ if it is decided advisable to go out for tuna. ber for the boat was furnished by the E. K. vVood .l\ccommodations for the crew include a captain's Lumber Company and the hardwood by Stanton. A cabin and staterooms. The Harbor Boat Building Bennett type anchor winch is to be installed. Company will wire the boat. A Bennett anchor winch The flare to the bow is a departure from usual fish­ is among the auxiliary equipment and considerable ing boat construction practice and is similar to that hardware \Vas secured from the C. J. r~rendry Company. in wooden yachts of the same size and shape of hull. The Hare acts in a pro­ Lay Keel for tecting capacity, with Another the hull of the boat at Manager Rados of the bow so shaped that the yard announces it thro1vs water off in­ that keel already has stead of on the boat. been laid for a Second The stern of the "St. big ryshing boat. \iVhile Joseph," in general, is details concernincr this more rakish than most . b b1g cra-ft - which is fishing boats of the somewhat of a mystery type. :rvr r. Bennett ex­ about Fish Hai·bor....=_ plains that the whole han: not been divulged idea is to make the and will not be avail­ underwater body of the able for several weeks, craft as fine as ~is reas­ ~tcc:Jrcling to 1{r. Rados, onable, with the upper Jt Is understood that body portion full to ~he keel _alone is over support the load it is 00 intended to carry. The f;et 111 length and boat has been designed 1 ~h~,~ 11 all 1~robabi1ity both for speed and stur­ ht:, boat IVtll be an- other f tl . . diness, 1vithout over­ 0 1e g-Iant ht(rh- looking the fact that s:a tuna boa-ts sev~:.,J 01 ' ' . ' ' ~ c she mlist carry a heaYy . \\ hJch have been load of fish. I)tJ It · r-r-' In the past by the and also he able to go · .trbor concern includ- lllg A . ' to sea for a consider­ ~, .r'-ugust FelatHlo's able length of time in Well 1·, "A Above, Nick Baskovich, Miss Winifred Cesareo and her father, Capt. Cesareo and \ 1 own - clven- Superintendent Mike Rados. Below, F. A. Schillin{;, torfoleum representative;' John order to get her load t urer. '' Rados, C'apt. Cesareo, Nick Baskovich, Jaci~ Hnmilton, Mike Rados, 0. W. Beckman of the Atlas-Imperial Engine Co., and Mr. Hodges of the Lipmnn Co. of fish. 3U 1'Hl': WEST COAST FISHERIES

large crowd of friends and well-wishers of the owner ~·Musketeer'' Capt. Andrew Zamberlin, master of the "Detroit," who will shift his command to the new tuna boat when she HE FIRST LAUNCHING of January was that of is completed }.-larch 1, at a total cost of approximately T the "Musketeer" at the San Pedro Boat Building $70,000. . Company yard at Terminal Island, the craft sliding Capt. Zamberlin will fish for the Van Camp Sea Food down the ways on Sunday, Jan. 19, to the cheers of a Co., Inc., outfitting at once for tuna. The craft is built so that she also can be used as a purse-seiner if desired, there being no live-bait tanks aft, where provisions have been made for intalling a turntable when it is needed. As is true with other live-bait boats of the newer combination type, the bait will be carried in two wells built into the hold. 'I'hc "!vlusketeer" is the second effort of Anton Bra­ jevich, manager of the yard, in designing and building fishing boats \vith a raised deck, a style which origin­ ated with the "Cipango," built last year for Y. Naka­ suji. The "J\{usketeer" has a· 30-inch raised deck for­ ward. She is 103 feet over all, with a beam of 25 feet and depth of 12 feet. Power will be provided by a 375-h.p. \A/estern Enter­ , prise Diesel engine, which is now being installed, and auxiliary power by a 45-h.p. Diesel of the same make. Two 25 kilowatt generator? will connect with the en­ gines, one directly to the auxiliary and the second through a turbo gear to the main eng-ine. the turbo gear being the first such installation on a fishing boat at San Pedro. Other auxiliary equipment includes hvo, five-inch and one three-inch Fairbanks-1\{nrse pumps. Cork under the deck of the fish hold and salt packed two feet thick on the sides will be the insulation and a York ice machine of fi-ve-ton capacity has been con­ tracted for refrigeration. The fuel capacity will be 13,000 galkms, allowing wide range of operation for the craft. S11f" will be able to carry 2000 gallons of water, the tanks being con­ structed by the l\Iarine Sheet l\Tetal \Vorks of Terminal Island. The "IVIusketeer" will carry a crew of twelve or thir­ teen men, for \vhich ample ~ccommoclations have been provided, including a captain's stateroom and three cabins for the crew. An ample galley has been pro­ vided and will be equipped with a Shipmate range. Just before the launching the hull was painted wilh Brininstool's copper paint, secured from the General Paint Corporation of Los Angeles. The launching was the occasion of considerable cele­ bration on the part of Capt. Zamberlin and 11is 'friends of the fishing fraternity. The boat was appropriately christened by 1\tirs. Zamberlin, wife of the owner, as l\{anager Zamberlin gave the orders and the hull slid down to the water. Completion of the: boat is now rapidly under \vay. No time is being lost installing ,the rest of the equip­ ment, according to Capt. Zamberlin. A Lnx fire-fight­ ing system is being installed, as is the last of the hard­ ware, all of which was secured from the C. J. I-Ien(:ry Company. The lumber and hardwood were supplied by the E. K. \i\lood Lumber Company. Shioji Orders Boat ~JlVIEDIATELY AJi'TER launching oi the "l\fLts­ I keteer," work was begun at the San Pedro yard on 0 Launching of the "Musketeer," at the Snn Pedro Boat Building Co. Yard­ a new 105-foot tuna boat for J. Shioji and partners, ! Left, part of the large crowd present; right, Mr. and Mrs. Zamberlin and· fish for the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc. 1rhe craft, their son; below, scenes of the "Musketeer" in the water after launching, hitting the water and on the ways as yet unnamed, is scheduled for launching in 1\larch fEBRUARY, 1930 31 and completion the last of May. She will exceed the rooms. lvir. l\Esetich will be the skipper and DominiC <~)\1usketeer" in length by two feet, being 105 over 1\Esetich, his son, \vill be the engineer. John JVIisetich all, with a beam of 26 feet and a depth oi 12 feet. Man­ and Tony 1\Iisetich, other sOtis .will be. members of the ager Anton Brajevich of the San Pedro Boat Building crew. Company will incorporate his raisccl-rleck idea in this Captain l\1isetich is now the owner and master of.. craft, also, making the third o£ the type constructed the "Georgia," and has been fishing out of Los Angeles at the yard within the past year. harbor for the past ten years. An Atlas Imperial-Diesel engine of six cylinders and Soon before the recent launching the hull was painted 350-h.p. has been selected for the main power and an with Cape Cod copper paint. Installation of equipment Atlas Imperial three-cylinder 45-h.p. for the auxiliary, is rapidly under. way and finishing touches are being which will be direct connected to a 25 kilowatt gen­ given the boat. Iron bark secured from VVhite Bros. of erator. A 20 kilowatt generator will be driven bv the San Francisco through the E. K. \Vood Lumber Com­ main engine. · pany, which furnished the lumber, is being used. A Lipman ice machine of fl\'e-ton capacity will pro­ Hardware from the C. J. }-Ienclry Company is being in­ vide refrigeration, ·which '-sill be safeguarded by insula- stalled. Installation of the equipment is under thC tion throughout. · supervision of Jim Paschall, partner in the company. rrhe Byron-Jackson pumps. of eig-ht-inch, six-inch and three-inch size, will be driYen 1-JY \~T cstinghouse motors and a gas engine will be installed for auxiliary use on the pumps. Among the other equipment already ordered are an Ingle range, Bennett anchor winch, Cunningham motor­ driven cargo ·winch and Lux fire-fighti!lf! apparatus. Hanhvare has hecn brouf,!'ht from the C. J. Hendry Company and the J\Tarine I-Tardwarc. The cre\v capacity will he thirteen men, for which a captain's quarters and four staterooms have been de­ signed. Capt. Shioji expects to Yisit distant tuna grounds and

thcrefcre has specified a capacity of 15 1000 gallons for fuel oil. The craft also will carry 2000 gallons of water and 300 gallons of lubricating oil. The tanks to hold the oil and water have been ordered from the lvfarine Sheet Metal ·w arks. 'rhere will also be two liYc-bait tanks and two wells. It will be possible to remove the tanks and install a turntable for purse-seining, if such is desired, although no immediate seining is contemplated. ':rhe capacity of the hold will be approximately 145 tons of iced fish. Lumber for the boat has been secured from the E. K. \i\T ood Lumber Company and hardwood through \iVhite Bros. of San Francisco. On completion of the hull it will be painted with Brininstool's copper paint. 11 Lucky Star" FIRST of the fishing boats to be built at the Long­ ". Beach Boat Building Company yard is the I;ucky Star," launched February 12, for JakoY lV!Js~tich, who will fish for the Coast Fishing Company ot. \Vilmington. The craft which is a purse-seiner, Will. cost when completed approximately $30,000. I\.liss Arltne Curry of the Long Beach Boat Building Com­ pany office christened her as she slid into the harbor.· ~he will be powered with a 200-h. p. VVestern Enter­ p~-Ise Diesel engine and will carry 6000 gallons of fuel oJ! and 1000 gallons of water. Dimensions of the boat Te: Length, 76 feet; beam, 22 feet, and depth 10 feet. he hold is insulated with cork on deck and and bulk­ 1 \e~ds and it is possible that an icc machine will be in­ ~ha led later. Gus Nordlund one of the partners of boe Lon~ Beach Boat Building Company and a yeteran at btnlder, designed the craft. He states that the

ca~,~ctty of the hold will be about 85 tons of iced fish. Scenes taken at launching of "Lucky Star" at Long Bench-top, Gus Nord~ 1 • • e "Lucky Star" \Vill carry a crew of ten men, lund of the Long Beach Boat Building Company; Miss Arline Curry, spon~ 1 sor; Jim Paschall of the Long Beach Boat Building Company and Jakov. • ccornnwdating them in a cabin and two large state- Misetich, owner of the new boat 32 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

She will carry 18,000 gallons of fuel oil and 2,000 ~~Johnny Boy" gallo_ns of water and will have a cruising r:1.dius of ap­ HE second boat to be let into the water by the proxlmately 6,000 miles: The crew capacity will be 16 T Long Beach Boat Building Company will be the men, for whom a captain's cabin and eight staterooms "Johnny Boy," for Pov.,rell Fiamengo, and also to fish with two bunks in each have been provided ~ for the Coast Fishing Company of \Vilmington. Capt. A York ice machine of five-ton capacity will be in­ Fiamengo is a well-known fisherman of San Pedro, stalled, to refrigerate a hold insulated w1th four-inch where he has been engaged in the business for years. cork. The hold will carry about 150 tons of iced fish. The "Johnny Boy" is similar to "Georgia No. 2" The auxiliary power is a 53-h.p., two cylinder \iVest­ in many respects, being of the same size, general de­ ern Enterprise Diesel, which will drive a \iVestinghouse sign and power, a 200-h. p. \~Vestern Enterprise Diesel generator. A generator also will be hooked onto the engine also to be installed. main engine. Total cost of the boat will be about $30,000 and she The I\1organs pLan to install an Ingle oil range in will be completed early this summer. Fiamengo will their galley. Other ha1:clware was secured from the be the skipper of his craft. l\1arine Hardware Company aild copper paint from the International Paint Company. The lumber for the boat came from the E. K. \Nood Lumber Company and the "Chicken of the Sea" hardware through \Vood ·from 1-Iiggins Lnm ber Com~ pany of San Francisco. The tanks and light wiring "CHICKEN OF THE SEA" is the 11ame of the were supplied by. the builders. 120-foot high-sea tuna boat· the Morgan brothers An exceptionally favorable feature of the boat, ac­ are having built at the Parke & l(ibele yard at \Vil­ cording to lVIr. Goularte, is the fact that the stern lines mington, launched about the middle of Feb., and to insure that the blade will be in solid water. be ready 1\Tay 1. According to the 1\Iorgans the name was selected in honor of the famous Brand of the Van Another unusual feature of the boat is the lighting, Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., for which the craft will fish. which will be supplied by a Kobler lighting plant. Al­ Also, the I\'iorgans are a bit superstitious, it seems, though many large vessels use the Kohler plants. this and because they say "Chicken of the Sea" has been a is one of the first fishing boats on this coast to install lucky brand, they anticipate that by naming their new one. boat after it, I\'L S. "Chicken of the Sea" will be a lucky 11 boat. Gabelich 's · Belle Isle" And it is a lucky boat already,·· in many ways, for which hear witness to thorough constructiOn it is ARKE & KIBELE also are building a 95-footer for receiving at the hands of M. S. Gonlarte, Parke & P John Gabelich, to fi.sh for the French Sardine Com~ IGbele's master builder in charge. I\-ir. Gonlarte comes pany, and scheduled for launching early in 1\{arch.· of a race of boat builders and fishermen and he has been This boat will cost approximately $75,000. Her beam afloat when fishing craft swayed and buckled under will be 23 :6 feet and her depth 11 feet. Mr. Gabelich stress of sea and cargo, and he does not' intend that announces that her name will be "Belle Isle." boats he shall build can do that. The l.Vlorgans' boat She will be of the combination type, with a turntable therefore is quite a sturdy "chick.'' The framewotk is for purse-seining and two live-bait tanks and two wells of ex:tra heaviness and) the bow is built solid for sev­ for hook-and-line tuna fishing. The main engine will eral feet. The beam is 28 feet. be a 340-h.p. ·western Enterprise Diesel, with a 30-h.p. 'l1o drive this big boat the l\{organs have purchased a auxlliary of the same make, hooked to a 25 kilowatt 500-h.p. \Vestern Enterprise Diesel engine of six cylin­ generator. A second gener<1.tor will he driven by the ders, which is expected to put her through the water at main engine. 12 knots, 11 knots being a conservative estimate by JVIr. The boat features a slightly raised deck to the top of Goularte. the bulwarks and ·was designed by Ivi. S. GQularte, who "Chicken of the Sea" will have a radio of standard, is in charge of construction. The crew of 12 men1 commercial size, installed and maintained bv the headed by Capt. Gabelich, will have comfortable ·quar-: Radiomar1ne Corporation of America. The I\lc.~rrrans, ters consisting of a cabin and six staterooms. A wire~ among others, believe that the day is not far distant less room is being built and apparatus may be installed when it will be necessary for fishing boats cruising in later. The galley will contain an Ingle oil stove. distant waters to carry radio apparatus and an operator. A five-ton Brunswick ice machine is 1"o be installed A licensed operator ·will handle the wireles~ of the craft and the decks and bulkheads will be insul::ttecl with four~ and will be a member of the crew, Sharing in the profits inch cork. The hold will carry 100 tons of fish in ice. of each trip. Designed speed of the craft is IO knots. The fuel capac· \\Taller l\IIorgan '\Yill be captain of the new boat. The ity '\vill be 12,000 gallons, with 2,000 gallons of water, "]\1Iorgan brothers have operated the "]\{organ," a con­ enabling an extensive cruising radius. The lumber was verted government boat, in the tuna fishery very profit­ supplied by the E. K. ·wood Lumber Company. ably for several years, and one of the brothers will con­ tinue to skipper this vessel. Her fishing- season completed, the halibut schooner ·when completed at a cost of $100,000, the "Chicken "Northern," Capt. C. Rambet-g-, was sunk in the Lake of the Sea" will be one of the finest tuna craft in South­ VVashington ship canal at Seattle, Nov. 18 by the tug ern California, friends of the I\I organs concede. Build­ "Georgia" ·while the fishing craft was enroute to ing of the craft is the result of several years study on winter berth. the part of the brothers into the requirements for a boat The tug cut deep into the starboard how of engaged in this particular fishery and they believe that "Northern" and kept her from sinking until a harbor the nCw boat ariswers. every demand: patrol boat was able to take the schooner in tow. FEBRUARY, 1930 33 Partners Euild Craft KOHIGASHI and K. Yamashita, partners, have • ordered a 105-foot tuna boat, the hull of which will Jbe built at once by Parke & Kibele. The completed boat, which has not yet been named, '~rill cost $80,000. '].'he beam is to be 25 feet and the depth 12 feet. A 375-h.p. '~!estern Enterprise Diesel engine ·will sup­ ply the power, with a 45-h.p. auxiliary. A fi,:e-ton York ice machine \vi1l be installed, the holrl to be lnsul­ ated 1vith four-inch cork. Kohigashi and Yamashita w.ill fish for the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., when their boat is ready in June. Kohigashi will be the capta1n and Yamashita the m<~;te. This boat, too, 1vill haYe a Racliomil.rine Corporation "The Alert," recently launched at San Diego, Calif. of America wireless, for ·which provision is to be made bv building of a radio room. A cabin, mate's room_. and efo-ht staterooms also will be built. At San Diego The fuel capacity will be 12,000 gallons anrl the water, 2,000 gallons, giving a cruising radius o{ from 5,000 BY I-I. DUKINFIELD to 6,000 miles. The galley will have an Ingle oil range. AN DIEGO is about to witness another season of 'l'wo live-bait tanks and two weils will be 1-milt. Lum­ S intensified activity in the shipbuilding industry, if ber for the boat was supplied by the E. K. ·wood Lum­ present contracts and rumors of others in the making ber Company. The wiring and building of tanks will be indicate anything. by tbe builders, Parke & Kibele. Hardware is from the The San Diego l\-iadne Construction Company has Ivfarine I-Iardware Company. just completed the successful launching of the 96-foot tuna cruiser "Alert" and the work of installing the main and auxiliary engines is now under way, pre­ New Patrol Eoat paratory to the delivery of the vessel to her new own­ BY I-I. L. MILLER ers IVIarch 1. Three at Campbells T has been announced at the office of the Division The yard of the Campbell 1\Jachine Company will I of Fish and Game that work \viii soon start on what shortly again be the scene of intensified construction is promised to be one of the most up-to~date patrol activity. Three vessels have been contracted for. boats ever put in ser-vice for the protection of fish and One of these vessels will be for J. Rose, the present for research work among the denizens of the deep. owner oi the tuna vessel "Lisboa." It will be 115 According to l\1r. :Maddox, head of the_ Fish. and feet in length, 25-ft. beam, and powered with an Atlas Game Division in San Diego, the boat, wluch wtll be Imperial 350-h. p. Diesel engine. The total value of built by the San Diego 1\Iarine Con st. Co. of San Diego, this boat will be $77,500 and when completed will fish \Vas designed by L. E. Geary, well known Pacific Coa~t for the \iV estgate Sea Products Company. - naval architect, especially for the type of work that lS Another vessel of similar dimensions has been con­ necessary. tracted for J\ianuel and Anthony l\Jonise, which will 'rhe new patrol boat will be 86 feet long, with a be powered with a Union 350-h. p. Diesel engine and beam of 18.5 feet and is to be powered \Vith a 200 h. p. will cost approximately $78,000. ·when completed it Atlas Imperial engine of the direct reversible Diesel will be in the service of the California Packing Cor­ type. Auxiliaries are to be of an advanced type and poration. it is planned to install wireless equipment after the The third vessel under contract will be 120 feet in boat is launched. length, 27 ft. beam, and will be practically a duplicate tfhc bid of the San Diego Company \vas the lowest of the "Navigator" now in service. It will be powered received, it being $87,800.00. The budg-et allowance with a 400-h. p. 6-cylinder Union Diesel engine, and for the building of the boat was $60,000.00. will cost $94,000. It is being constructed for l\fanuel 'rhe new crift will be used bv the Bureau of Com­ Silva and a group of associates, and will 11sh for the l1lercial Fisheries to maintain ifs Southern California Cohn-Hopkins, Inc. cannery. patrol and for the extensive scientific investie:ation Two other vessels are known to be under considera­ and :esearch work considered vital to the fishit;g and tion but negotiations have not yet reached a stage cannmg- industries. Accommodations for officers crew where definite announcement can be made. and reSearch workers will be provided, and a labora­ The new yards of Cooper & Schmidt opened auspi­ tory will be installed. ciously with the contract for V. Tasso of a 55-foot vVith the completion of the new patrol boat the last tuna and swordfish boat, to be powered with a 70-h. p. ~~~rd !n a craft of this so_rt_, ~he "Alb~core," the patrol Atlas Imperial diesel engine. The hull of this vessel of·:~ operated by the Dtvtston of Ftsh & Game out is no\v nearing completion and it is expected to be ·~'.1 11 Pedro will be sent to ]\Jontere}" and used for ready for launching in about two weeks' time. 'rhis Pat· 1 ' ,,! ~ and research \Vork in northern waters. vessel when completed will cost approximately $18,000. · J.'he addition of the new patrol boat to our patrol The new swordfish and tuna boat "J\1assacl1trsetts" tlaciltties will be a great help not on\}r .in cnforcin(T for Frank E. Brown & Sons is now taking on its final t le I , ' b ne a\\~, but in securing- the information so badly coat of paint and will make its trial trip about the 1 of Ced 111 the industry," N. B. Scoii.elcl, of the Bureau 15th. This vessel is a 56-footer, 13 ft. beam, and is on11nercial Fisheries, declared. powered with a 70-h. p. Atlas Imperial Diesel engine. 34 TlfE WEST COAST FISlfERlES

RESERVE R BIN ER

THIS SERVICE IS POSITIVELY FRE£ fEBRUARY, 1930 35

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Lampara Itlen Again ''Oriental" Sinl~s; Free::sing E:xperilnenls Protest Seiners Crew Rescuetl for Boats On February 14 all Iampara O\vners The purse-seiner, "Oriental," having The Canadian Ministry of 1v1arine and and fishermen of Monterey will meet in hit a submerged obstacle, sank while Fisheries, through its great expen~ the boat owners' association hall on the homeward bound off Point Dume Jan. 31 mental and practical work, has given old w barf for the purpose of discussing with a full load of sardines. Capt. Carl impetus to a special line of food re~ ways and means of getting rid of the Antonovich and the crew \verc rescued frigeration, says the Canadian Export purse seiner. The meeting was called by the "Sunbeam.," a second purse­ Pioneer, whereby large quantities of by a small group of boat owners who as- seiner, and brought home to San Pedro, wholesome and fresh fish can be con~ ""'sembled .and thoroughly discussed the Calif. In addition to the sardines, the vcycd to distant markets in perfect con~ situation. There is a possibility of the loss included $3,000 worth of nets, sup­ dition. chamber of commerce being called into plies and personal belongings of the A modern brine-freezing plant con~ sists of a series of tanks, containing the affair. . crew. The craft was insured for $20,500. fresh water, brine and ice, which is cir­ The purse-seiners are destroying the Capt. Antonovich attempted for 20 culated by means of a small motor with fish and driving them out of the bay, is minutes to save his craft after she had pump attachment. The water is rapid­ the belief of the lampara men. During struck the obstacle at full speed. He and ly drawn from the container through the the present season some 180 men \vorlc­ his crew were forced to take to the skiff brine tanks over the ice tank (doe cool­ ing on purse-seiners received more than and were picked up later by the "Sun­ ing) and is forced into the top of the 60 per cent of the profits made .by all beam." freezing chamber containing the fish to the fishermen, while 875 men working The "Oriental" was in escrow for sale be frozen, and is then rushed back from on lampara boats received less than 40 to Dick Pernica. R. D. Suryan was her the bottom of the freezing chambers in­ per cent of the profits. It is pointed out owner. She \vas 73 feet long and pow­ tQ the container or reservoir. This pro­ that it is the lampara men who actually ered by a 135- h. p. Diesel engine. The cess of rnpidly circulating the brine solu~ live in Monterey, have their homes there craft \Vas built last year at Anacortes. tion over the ice naturally tends to bring and bring money into the city, while the the temperature to the correct degree of purse-seiners almost all come from the * * * freezing. · south and go back to the south when the 50~Ton Boats Now One ton of ice to a quarter of a ton season is over. Over half of the million Exempt from Tax · of salt would be sufficient to freeze one odd dollars paid to men fishing out of Fishing boats of over 50 tons which ton of fish. The .number of freezing 1\'fonterey bay last season, went south­ operate out of Los Angeles harbor, tak­ chambers would depend on the size of unnecessarily, say the lampara men. ing on ice and engaging in fishing and the plant installed, ·which would have to . be calculated on the amount of space It is the first ] anuary in the last 20 transporting of their fish back to port years when the bay has not been full of available in the boat's hold or fish room. arc exempt from the personal property A plant with six freezing chambers fish, they say. The purse-seiners have tax levied last fall by the Los Angeles driven the sardines out of the bay and which could reliably and economically County Board of Supervisors, it has be driven by a 2 h.p. motor with pump away up the coast, where the lampara been learned from an authentic source. hoats, b_sing comparati\•ely frail vessels, would be capable of freezing one ton of The action was taken following an opin­ fish per hour. can't go; with the result that the purse­ ion from the county counsel that the seiners are getting fish and the lantpara As· soon as the skipper of the boat is boats come under the meaning of the in position on the fishing ground to men are getting nothing or practically law exempting carriers. nothing, they claim. shoot his trawl, the brine-freezing plant \i\Then the tax was levied only .a few is put in operation, so that no time is At the February 14 meeting, as plan­ boat owners paid it, the others acting ned, some definite action will be taken in lost ·when the haul is heaved on board. upon the advice of their attorneys by This being accomplished, the catch is the way of getting rid of the purse­ refusing to pay until the question was immediately sorted into the various spe­ seiners. The lampara men hold that the settled. The money which \Vas paid has cies, gutted and sprayed with sea' water idea that the purse-seiner represents the been returned. to cleanse it from any remaining .im­ inevitable progress of the industry and The threat that the large boats would purities. It is then packed into the fish that they are simply being crUshed in the have to pay the tax, which would amount boxes, each box being filled to 75 per wheels of time, is false. They say that up to considerable for crafts valued at cent of its capacity, a"llowing the re­ without the purse-seiner the lamparas from $50,000 to $100,000, caused several maining 25 per cent for expansion dur­ could supply the canneries with all the owners to change their registry from ing the process of freezing. These are fish they could use. San Pedro to San Diego. now ready for placing in the .freezing chambers. * * * The length of time taken to freeze _by * * * this process varies according to the s1ze lUonterey Fishermen Fishermen Believed Rescued by Cutter of the. fish caught. For example, a flat Lost nt CoOs Bay fish weighing between two or three lbs. Mark Edolia and his crew narrowly Capt. Louis Pederson and Andrew can be frozen hard in 15 minutes, where~ escaped disaster on January 30, barely F oyam, who disappeared from the Coos as a large salmon or similar large fish averting being dashed on the rocky coast Bay fishing boat "Dawn" Feb. 6, arc '\Votild take one hour. Fish frozen b}' near Pigeon Point, when rescued by a believed to have been lost, according to this process may be kept in insulated coast guard cutter. Edolia was fishing advices from :rviarshficld, Ore. Two buo)' storage for 12 months or more, and on up the coast out of Iviontercy for cod for kegs and life preservers from the vessel being defrosted still retains its natural Vito Bruno's when his bat­ were found at South Bay, south of Ban­ flavor. tery went dead and the engine stalled. don. The brine-freezing process is far in The cutter was ordered out of San advance of the old method of storing Francisco when word was received that * * * fish in ice, but should there be a tc111~ a small fishing boat 'vas in distress off C. E. Hume of San Francisco, president porary break down of the plant (whi~h the point. Edolia could only sec inevita­ of the G. \i\1. Hume Company( first pack­ is practically automatic and foolproof tO ble catastrophe when the cutter came ers of salmon on the Vlest Coast, is the its action) the original method may be along, and now he is swearing by the new president of the National Canners resorted to and the fish marketed in the coast guard service. Association. same manner as prevails today. FEBRUARY, 1930 37

GOSSIP Of THE SAN DIEGO fLEET By H. DUKINFIELD

HE launching of the new tuna Markel Receipts Light In Judge Dancy's court the counts 'f clipper, "Alert," was attended by Principally due to the stormy and against him were dismissed on the not only a colorful ceremony but a dis­ threatening weather during the fore part ground that the evidence presented by tinguished San Diego assemblage. The of the last month, receipts at the fresh the state \Vas purely circumstantial and guests of the San Diego 1vlarine Con­ fish markets have been light and prices insufficient to warrant holding Cabral ~truction Co. on the occasion of the high. Barracuda and halibut wholesaled for trial. launching included 1.fayor Harry C. as high as 24c, while Rock Cod reached Clark, A. K. Johnson, manager of the a record price of 12c round 'which is the The gas boat "Successo," owned by Van Camp Sea Food Co. at San Diego, highest figure that variety has brought C. E. Kitchen and H. B. Kidney, went and :Mrs. Johnson, Capt. 0. ]. Hall, Clei11. for the past three years. Lobsters have on the beach at North Island on the W. Stose, George Campbell, David been comparatively scarce, the fleet night of the 4th, which was foggy. All Campbell, Capt. Henry Olson, boat su­ bringing-in very light loads as a result efforts of the Star & Crescent tug "Palo­ perintendent of the Van Camp Sea Food of the stormy weather causing the loss mar" to pull the boat back into deep Co., Inc., T. Abc, Port Director Joseph of many traps by the lobster fishermen, water have so far failed. It is reported Brennan, Frank Johnson of San Pedro, and prices have stiffened somewhat. It the vesseL is resting in the sand and not and many others. is expected a further advance in price seriously damaged, lying on an even The vessel was launched on \V cdncs­ will be seen if present conditions con­ keel. Captain Hall, of the Star & Cres­ day, Jan.- 29, was christened by 1•Irs. A. tinue. cent Boat Company, announces another K. Johnson, and is expected to be deliv­ During the latter part of the month determined effort will be made on the ered to its new owners on March 1. the prices for rock cod and mackerel next high tide, which he anticipates will Work was immediately begun in install­ dropped to a shipping point due to be attended with success. ing the fuel tanks and the vessel's ma­ heavier receipts and better weather, while chinery, and speed from now on is .the smelt, halibut and local sea bass continue Camillo Gets Lobsters watchword of Dean B. Johnson, super­ firm and prices good. The lobster ·cruiser "Oceana," Capt. intendent of the shipyard and designer As a whole, January has been a very Louis Camillo, arrived in San Diego on of the vessel. An Atlas Imperial 275- poor month for the fresh fish markets the morning of the 4th with the largest h. p. Diesel engine will be installed. · from an income and profits standpoint. load of lobsters yet brought in this sea­ son, which was promptly absorbed by Rebuild W'lwrf four of the markets. Camillo expects to Netv Point Loma Pier leave again for another load not later Repairs to the Star & Crescent ferry A 600 foot pier at La Playa, Point than the 7th. wharf, which was seriously damaged by Lama, is proposed for the accommoda­ fire early in January, arc being made ra­ tion of fishermen whose tuna vessels pidly, and all the departments are now RANGES FOR PERU anchor there and >vhose owners and crew functioning with the exception of the res­ Finlay 1L Drummond, president of mostly reside in the vicinity. The boats taurant which suffered the greatest dam­ the Ingle Manufacturing Company, San are to be assessed individually in propor­ age. However, it is announced that this Diego, manufacturers of the Ingle oil tion ·to:.thcir size and value for half of ,,;ill be ready for business again in a very ranges, announces that the company the money necessary to build the pier, few days. 1'fany improvements are be­ r·ecently made shipment of 12 ranges the remainder to be furnished by the city. ing installed, and the building is present­ for the Peruvian Government, to be de­ ing a greatly improved appearance. livered at Callao by Feb. 15. The com­ "Carolina E." on Rochs pany also has just recently installed ten Ingle ranges of stainless steel and monel The vessel "Caroline E," owned by Tuna V essds Report metal trim for the kitchens at Agua Ca­ Clyde Endregat, went on the rocks at The vessels of the tuna fleet which left liente hotel and casino and also the Santa Cruz Island on Jan. 21. She was Jockey club and clubhouse. taken by a vessel of Merrit, Chapman port during the first week of January, -..rt after spending the holidays at home, are & Sc:ott's fleet and delivered to R., E. Prewett's boat shop at Santa Barbara, beginning to arrive and report catches HEAVY WHALE CATCH where the necessary repairs will be made. as follows: A catch of whales, producing 136,080 The vessel is valued at approximately For the Cohn-Hopkins cannery: <~un­ barrels of oil valued at over 567,000 $5000 and the cost of repairs will. be in cle Sam," light; "G. Marconi" and "St. English pounds, is reported for the first the vicinity of $2000. Therese," good. twelve weeks of the 1929-30 Antarctic For the \Vestgate Sea Products Co: season, ended January 13, by Anglo­ "Conte Verde" and "Lisboa," light; Norwegian Holdings, Ltd., the largest "Pacific" Sinl~s "Olympia" and "Patria," good. British unit in the industry, for The Diesel fishing boat "Pacific," while For the Hovden cannery: "Sao Joao," the fleets it controls. During the same en route north from Turtle Bay, sank off good. period last year, 119,100 barrels of oil, Breakers Point on Jan. 20. The seams For the San Diego Packing Co.: valued at 496,250 pounds, were pro­ opened and the vessel took water so "Orient," good. duced. The "Polar Chief," the largest rapidly that she had to be abandoned by For the California Packing Corpora­ factory ship in the fleet, has not been the· crew, who- were later picked up by tion: "Del lvlonte," medium; "St. Vero­ producing for the last three weeks, ow­ ing to coaling operations. the San Antonio and taken to Turtle nica," good. Bay and transferred to the "Alfhild," For the Van Camp Sea Food· Co.: Which vessel brought them to San Diego. "Funchal," "Sacran1ento," "\Vester n ICELAND FISHERIES The vessel was 48 feet in length, valued Enterprise" and "San Joaquin," light; The improvement which has charac­ at $5000, and was owned by C. E. Bern­ "Lois S.", medium; "Emma R. S." and terised the economic situation in Iceland Jtein. She was operating for the Marine "Lusitania," good. during the past few years, especially in )roducts Co. of Los Angeles. 1928, was well maintained during the past year. The cod fisheries, at the end Fishermen Exoneralecl New Building Ready of October last, showed a yield of 63,- Joe Cabral, a well known San Diego 440 tons, as compared with 60,400 tons \\The new building on the Fishermen's fisherman, is resting easier in mind to­ for the corresponding season of 1928. 'rh.arf at the foot of G street, to be oc­ day, having been relieved of the clmrge The herring season was relatively short C~l[Hed by the Harbor Supply Co., is ra­ of manslaughter and hit-and-run driving. and closed earlier than usual, reducing Ptdly nearing completion, and is expected He was accused of the death of a negro the catch to about 129,000 barrels, a de­ ~ he ready for use before the middle of named Allen Luster on December 2nd, cline of, roundly, 38,000 barrels, for ex­ 'ebruary. last, and failing to stop and render aid. port, as compared with 1928. 33 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

such record achievement by about sao "They say the 'Lindbergh' got its seinc fleet Breaks Record tons-a 3,200-ton haul made during Feb­ around about two hundred tons, but the Hundred-Tun Purse-Seine Boals Laml ruary of 1928, also at !vfonterey. Previ­ fish took the corks under and they savctl Enormou,q Catch: ous records had all been established at only about fifty tons. Fish Harbor, San Pedro. "The 'Conquest' made a good night's By GEO. ROGER CHUTE Big Seine-Boats Dicl It work-landed more than a hundred - Spectators standing on the wharves tons. Four thousand tons of pilchards were "The 'Hawk II' brought in a good brought into the port of Monterey, Cali­ and along the cannery row ejaculated all day over the sight of so much fish. "Ho1v load; it can carry about a hundred and fornia, on Saturday, January 25, last. fifty tons, but I don't know·· if it was By a wide margin this was the most did it happen? How was it done?" they repeated again and again. Passing fisher­ full-up or not. Anyway, they was in 011 staggering quantity of sardines that has the money. ever been landed in one day in any Cali­ men, whom they slopped for an answer fornia fishing port. It is doubted whether to their queries, replied cryptically, so "Hovden got a hundred tons off the ever before Such a tonnage of small fish thr~.t many did not fully comprehend: 'New Elmer' today, and the 'Vepus' un~ has been brought to market in a single "It was the seine-boats; the purse-seiners loaded somewhere between _seventy and day by any fishing fleet that this earth done it. There is so many of them eighty tons; she is the biggest seiner in has known. no·w." the Bay and can carry a hundred and The tremendous catch of the night of Conditions Were Perfect seventy-five tons, but last night they had January 24 and 25 surpassed the last Although it was only the second night bad luck-got too many fish in the seine of the late January dark, all conditions and nearly lost the whole business. That _ were ideal, and schools filled the ocean everywhere about. Some of the boats set on fish right in front of the canneries, JIM PASCHALL GUS NORDLUND just a mile or two out. Returning ves­ sels-especially the smaller lampara rigs -commenced coming in about the time LONG BEACH Parke & Kibele, Inc. that the second movie shows let out, and by midnight whole processions of sheep­ BOAT BUILDING Superior Service for skin-coated Italians v·:ere clumping up Alvarado Street, bound bed-ward, up the COMPANY Fishing Boats hill. Big Craft Late Designers and Builders of Dry Dock and Repair 1.fost of the large turn-table outfits Commercial Craft stayed out most of the night. This was and Yachts' Specialists not because they could not find fish, but at least in several instances was the re­ sult of too much of it. Any purseman REPAIR WORK '"ill tell you that on these occasional 1761 Water St. Long Beach -_-,. Day and Night Service nights when the fish seem to fill the sea, rising to the surface in acres and acres Phone Long Beach 659330 Main Shops at of extent, fhe job that bothers the skip­ per of a round-haul craft is not that of ' Berth 94, San Pedro getting fish into his gear, but that of not getting too much into it. Valuable time J. R. Upjohn R. T. Upjohn is often lost by the vessels in cruising Branch Marine Ways around, waiting for an opportunity to and Shops Accommodating Craft cut off just the proper amount from the up to 1000 tons at corner of some passing school; this sorf Protane Bottled. Gas I of thing happened to a number of the boats on the night we arc talking about. Company Berth 160, Wilmington I Some of them didn't come in until day­ FISHERMEN'S WHARF light. I Agents for A Twelve-Hour Delay I Hunt-Spiller Gunmetal Iron But if they had stayed out half the day, they still would have been in plenty of Qalt..-S~""'.a.«~> I for piston rings and cylinder time, for vessels lay in ranks and rows liners for Diesel Engines. around the cannery hoists all day long. P. 0. Box 1744 ' I The factories took the fish as fast as they Phone Main 1477 I could, but even so several of the boats Plton'es San Pedro 2790-2791 did not discharge until after nightfall­ SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA too late to go out again that same eve­ ning. Packers all called out their maxi­ mum crews, all hands got all of the \Vork they could stand, and since the pace kept up in the plants longer than just while H. K. Shockey, Prop. ' 'BASK the fish were being landed (until, in fact, the fish were dressed, cooked and can­ Shipbuilding Co. ned), it was"a weary crov,·d that strag­ gled up the hillside two days later, the Shockey Boiler Furnislles a Complete Service work" having in the meanwhile been prac­ tically caught up. Works BOAT SHOPS Lrmclt Counter Gossip WORK BOATS. REPAIR.WORK Happening to be in Monterey at the FUEL OIL TANKS MARINE RAILWAYS time these events -look place, the writer MACHINE SHOPS gathered some hear-say details from Also Fish Cookers MARINE SUPPLIES conversations with fishermen coming GAS ENGINES for the Canning Tracie NAVAL ARCHITECT nnd ashore. DESIGNER "Did we get a load?-I'll say we did!" exclaimed an exultant fellow, slushing up 125 Market Street FOOT OF GRAPE STREET the street with a boot full of sea \Vater. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. "Didn't sec nuthin' but fish all night." SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Someone came ashore with news of Phone Main 4448 several outfits: FEBRUARY, 1930 39 is what happened ~o the '!vlarie-Joan,' are opcn.ed to purse~scining after having wo. Berntsen pursed up four or five been closed to fishing for several years. Conveniences Afloat t1undrcd tons of fish and they busted his The fi.shing season has been increased net. I heard that they saved only about by .16 hours in the Bristol Bay area and Fishermen Totlay Go tp Sea in Quarters thirty-five tons, and \Vill have to lay up will end this year at 6 a. m., July 25. Comforwble us a 11 omc to __fix the gear." Nets are to he marked with clusters of Ne\•er-the-less, it was the large aver­ · corks at .either end and double corks at By H. L. MILLER age haul of the purse-seiners that was 25-fathmil intervals; these are to be paint­ named by everyone as the reason for the In years gone by the fishermen's life at ed red, while .cork lines -,v;ll be marked sea was a hard one. Their bunks iVerc abnormal catch. It is said that fifteen with fixed metal tags bearing the com­ of these are working in the Bay-that of the smallest sizes and had no sprin!is, pany's initials. The upper part of Kvi­ their sleeping quarters were very there were eighteen before, but two de­ chak Bay is to have a weekly closed parted a fe\v ·weeks ago to return to their cramped, they used a small charcoal stove perod of 81 hours, instead o£ 60 hours, to do their cooking and ate their fooil home port of San Pedro, and a third was according to the orders. wherever they could find a place to sit, lost by fire at sea. - A 96-l-iour weekly closed period is cf. all 'due to the fact that the boats of yes­ Fortunately for the canneries and for fective during the season until July 25, teryear ranged in size from .10 feet to 50 their employees, Sunday (the next day with a 36-hour closed season thcr"eafter feet in length, and their sleeping quar­ after the fish deluge) was one of light on the south side of the Alaska peninsula ters were in the focsle or the bow of fares, The respite thus afforded allowed from Cape Tolstoi to Kupreanof Point the bOat. the factories time to 'in ill -out their prod­ and including the.Shumagin Islands. The San Diego fishermen of today live uts, and get in order to receive the next Gillnetting and beach seining will he on their boats just as comfortably as multiple-thousand-ton shock from the continued in the Chignik area. 1v[otor they would on shore. All sleeping quar­ pilchard fleet. gillnet boats are prohibited, and no boat ters are above deck in the cabin and are ---- shall carry or tow more than one beach divided so that there are three bunks to seine. a stateroom. These are equipped with Alaska Regulations bed springs and mattresses made and de­ signed especially for the tuna clippers by NEW EASTERN SEASONS the Standard Mattress & Furniture Co., Nero Orders /or 1930 Deemed Favorable During the month of February the new Inc., of San Diego. to Purse~Seiners producing areas extend from Maine to Their kitchen or galley, as it is called Georgia. \Vhile the varieties are neiV to on board ship, is as up to date as the Nineteen-thirty fi;;hery regulations for the particular sections, they are not new finest kitchens in the largest hotels. Alaska, as announced by the 'Bureau of to the market, but will add materially to Their stoves are either of bottled gas Fisheries, are considered to be more fa­ the general. supply. tvpe or Ingle diesel oil type, vorable to purse-seiners than regulations Carp-Delaware and Maryland. ·Their chefs are of the best to be found of 1929. Purse-seiners were prohibited Catfish-Delaware. in marine service. from being attached to the shore last Codfish-1vfaine. Their dishware is of the best quality year, and elimination of this paragraph Croakers-North Carolina. hotel crockery and they use all alumi­ in the new general regulations is note· Dabs-New York. num pots and pans, and as good a sil­ ·worthy. In addition, Nutka and Keete Eels-1hryland, North Carolina, Rhode verware as the average home. Inlets in the West Coast of Prince of Island and Virginia. Their foods are of the best quality, and ·wales Island district of Southeast Alaska Flounders-New Jersey. the quantity is large, for they do not Haddock-Maine. know how long they may be out to sea. Hake-1v!aine. As years roll by the fishing industry Herring-North Carolina. is getting better and hetter and so it Fred W. Schellin, Pre5, E. J. Ghio, Secy, and Treas, lv!ullet-Maine. is with the tuna clippers that are noiV Perch- Delaware. Maryland, N nrth being built. American Fishermen's Carolina and Virginia. ---- Protective Assn. p:ckerel-Delaware. Rock-Delaware. Maryland, Virginia. WHO STARTED ICING Active and Progres5ive The packing of fish in sno\v is not MEMBERSHIP-103 BOATS. AVERAGE Scallops-Virginia. 4 FISHERMEN TO BOAT Shad-Georgia. North C:trolina. new, says a writer in the British Fishing Transacts all busineSs contingent to Smelts-New York and Vermont. News. Back in 1784 an employee of the our association East India C~mpany stated that Chinese Telephone: Frnnltlin 1804 f1shermen carried snow in their boats and 867 Harbor St., Sun Diego, Calif. RUSSIA INCREASING FLEET by means of it werC able to convey fresh P. 0. Box 875 From Russia comes word that the Far fish into the interior of China. Eastern Fish Trust is developing a fleet of modern fishing boats to speed up the clei'elopment of the fish ·industry of the F. Buono, Gen_ Mgr. M. P. SUGLIAN, Secy, P. Crivello, Sec, region. The value of the fisheries pro­ San Diego Fishermen's duction in 1928 was almost six times as Fishermen's Cooperative great as in 1926 while the 1929 produc~ Association, Inc. tion is estimated as ·double that of 1928. Association -KEENLY ALERT­ The production of fish by the Soviet Membership 65 Purse-Seiners DIRECTING THE WANTS OF OUR Far Eastern fisheries is estimated at 25 Average 8 Men to Boat MEMBERSHIP, AGGREGATING million rubles for 1929, as againM an out­ Correspondence invited relative purchases 85 BOATS of our members, Information Average 4 Fishermen to the Boat nut of 13 million ruble.s for 1928 and oi gladly given, 2,300,000 for 1926. Telephone Franldin 2714 MUNJCI)'AL FISH WHARF 825 HARBOR STREET SAN PEDRO, CALIF. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. NEW EQUIPMENT ADDED The lvbrine Sheet i.\'f etal \V arks of 'I'erminal Island has aUdcd a heavy A. Farina, Secy. H. YOKOZEK.I, Secretary power brake_ bending machine to its S. Cia.mincino, Pres. 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been that way all season. You can't pull day or night \vhen the old woman in the Get Chowder Stock a fork through it, hardly-unless you have moon happens to pull the water off the a belt like a belly-band on a truck horse. beach, and yet they think you are a pro­ Look at this new one I just finished to­ fiteer for wanting three dollars for it - Drag-Rahers Take· 'Supply During Low day," he exclaimed, exihibiting to me a less than that, on the average. But I Tides at Pi::mo Beach. breadth of doubled canvas as wide as the tell you what," he concluded, "unless I leathern belt of a motorcycle rider. The don't know how to Tead the signs, by Professional clam diggers of that fa­ diggers say that the sand packs some next summer they will be paying three mous Pizmo beach pronounce themselves years more than others, and that on some bucks for a limit and mighty glad to get as of opinion that they have played into days it is harder than on others. them. My idea is that the day of two­ extraordinary good luck during these re­ "When the bottom is hard like it is now bit clams isn't so very far away." cent minus tides. Everybody (hat turned here at Pizmo, you can dig a ·whole tide Some of the diggers have brought in out got some clams, and plenty of the and not get your limit. I notice that very large specimens. Manv of them seem dr:ag-rakers waded ashore after thirty just as soon as the sand loosens up the to show twelve or thirteeeri annual rings. mmutes ·work with a legal limit. clams come to the top. I think that According to the men interviewed, a they get covered up, and the going's so large part of the largest stock-more than "It was the good weather done it," tough they lay off until the sand softens one of them said at the close of January. half of them, they said-came from the "We usually have to put up with a lot up. Whenever you find the bottom loose lower reaches of the beach, close to the of heavy seas this time of year, and many you can ahvays get a limit in a little boundary of the closed area at Oceano. whil~~provided you can get out on the "Of the four-and-a-half mit'es of beach a time we have been knocked down by bars. the surf and rolled a hundred yards in that we are digging nQw,· the south end white water before being able to get up January was not so good as December, seems best for big ones. It is easier again. There has been men killed or declare the clam-men. Several severe digging, too. VVe all are wondering what drowned that way, but that is all in the blmvs set in motion a sea that pounded we will fincl when they open up the closed game. Al'Ways new clam diggers to take the beach during several otherwise splen­ district four or five years from now." the places of the stove-up-ones, and tliC did minus tides. Even with good weath­ One of the commercial diggers de­ ones that get rheumatism and quit-one er conditions restored, long S'\vclls con­ clared that during the extreme tides of born every minute, as the fellow says." tinued rolling in from the northwest, for­ middle January several of the Pisn1o December was exceptionally fmc, they bidding all hut the most intrepid and draggers had gotten out on bars so far state. All during the exceedingly low long-legged from risking the prolific sea­ to sea as to have been abreast of the tides of that mo-nth the smoothest of ward bilrs. little building seen on the Pizmo wharf. weather continued. "Sure was like the "Two-Bit" Clams Prmlicted No one remembers of this having been ffood old summer time,' said "The Kid," "You can always call diggin_g good so done before, at this season of the year.­ only there wasn't no fog. Just the same, long as the restaurant people squawk G. R. C. but better." The mildness of the surf­ about the price,'' averred one fork-puller ·which at ~izmo beats directly against an to my ~~quiry i!1to _the state of his busi­ Haddock Landings at New England exposed ocean beach-enabled the drag­ ness. The pnce 1s only twenty cents ports in November, 1929, amounted to fork men to venture u'pon outside bars, apiece for a chm1 as big as a pint of oys­ 11,000,000 lbs. The landings for Octo­ and in water up to their ann pits. ters. bul still they aren't satisfied. Three her were over 14,000,000 lhs. The total dollars is all we get for a legal limit of landings of haddock for 11 months of Tlw Sarul Was "Awful" fifteen-when we get a limit. \Vater up 1929 came to 177,000,000 Ibs. compared 1'But the sand was a>vful hard. It's to your neck, and out at all hours of the with 142,000,000 lbs. during 1928. FEBRUARY, 1930 41 Perez Trevifio is well known in· Califor­ Undersized lobsters Mexican fisheries nia and was Chief of Staff during Obre­ gon's administration, later receiving the appointment of Secretary of Industry, Commission Explains Disposition Tuna Fleet Getting Encouraging Commerce and Labor, also in Obregon's LoO.ds of Fish ~~ Seized "Bugs" Cabinet. By H. L, MILLER -By STAFF CORRESPONDENT NEW INSULATION VVhat about undersized lobsters? Tuna boats are coming into San Diego This question has been answered a with very good loads. Practically the A very interesting insulating material, thousand times or more by Captain C. F. whole San Diego tuna fleet is out, as a known as TorfoleUm, "is being introduced Maddox of the Fish and Game Com­ fine season is expected and the canner­ to the Pacific Coast by the firm of 1-fail­ mission of San Diego, Calif. Everyone ies Vas 42,540,295 pounds. This exceeded economic conditions of the country are with the material. bad. Mexican lobsters which started the catch of 1928 by about eight million coming in the latter part of October have pounds ·and was more than four million NINE-WEEK RABBIT, F1SH pounds in excess of the catch of 1927. not sold at a profit to producers, who DIET The netters have put their nets ashore ·were c;ompelled to stop operations for after an unsatisfactory season attributed one month as the wholesale markets An experiment with the all-flesh diet to the fish remaining deeper than usual. claimed lobsters could nont be moved. was recently conducted by Burt M. Mc­ Some forty thousand barrels of salt fonditions, hOivever, have improved Connell, adventurer and former editor of mackerel were made from the recipts' of ';tlely and it is expected that the produc­ The Lilerarv Digest. McConnell spent fresh mackerel as compared with 7,000 to tiOn of 1viexican lobsters between now nine weeks ln the wilderness of Quebec 10,000 barrels the previous year. The and the close of the lobster season in without hunting or camping equipment, mackerel fleet landed 1,464 barrels of salt 1J exico, March 15, will be moved with­ clothed in skins, sleeping in the snow mackerel this year as compared with 352 with the temper~ture at 32 degrees be­ out, any difficulty at good Prices. barrels in 1928. 1 he lobster ·producers are planning to low zero, upon a diet of rabbits and fish. The catch of fresh for 1929 was 42,- start next season with a new policy and He returned to civilization in excellent 540.295 pounds; 1928, 30,264,900 pounds; plan of distribution, it is understood. health and physical condition. 1927, 38,144,100 pounds and 1926, 45,643,- Netv Administration 500 pound,s. ..,. F~bruary 5th, new administration in F1SHEUMEN'S SCHOOL ---- 1ptex1.co, headed by Pascual Ortiz Rubio, Thirtv-five Maritime Province fisher­ L. A. PLANT SETS RECORD rcsHlent, came in po\ver for four years men will be helped to attend the six C!Hling 1934. The new Secretary of Ag­ weeks' educational fisheries course to be Tin plate tonnage requirements of the nculture, as officially announced is Gen­ given at the Experimental Station, Hali­ Los Angeles plant of the American Can ;r~•I _1Januel .Perez Trevifio. '1'Iexican fax, comme11cing January 22. Fishermen Company for 1929 were greater than tls 1enes are dependent upon the secre­ completing the course will be allowed those of any other factory of the company ary of agriculture. General 1vlanuel $45 plus railway fare. in the United States. 42 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

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The salmon usually show up outside ing enough ·Crabs for local consumption. Halibut Season opens early in May, or sometimes the latter Some days the boats get three or four part of April. sacks each and the next day they are ~-- A lampara outfit was expected to ar­ lucky to get half a sack. There is an Thirty ~o Thirty·five Boals Expected al rive to furnish fresh bait to the fisher­ ordinance in Humboldt County prohib­ Eureka, .California men. If the lampara is successful in get­ iting the shipping of crabs to other dis­ ting bait early in the year in Eureka \Va­ tricts, so that the market is very limited. Jt was .expected that from 30 to 35 ters it surely \Vill help the production of bOits would be ready to· start the halibut the Eureka fishermen. In· seasons past season on February 15 at Eureka, Calif., the halibut fishermen often had to lay in BARGE GOES ASHORE according to Wilham Kay, secretary of for want of bait while frozen bait was ihe- Eureka Fishermen's Union. A half shipped from distances of hundreds of The. "Geneva II," a barge owned by P. dozen of the halibut boats. come from miles. Komure, Monterey fisherman, went other ports,·both north and south, to fish At present there is very little fresh ashore ncar the Pt. Pinos lighthouse in the season out of Eureka. fish being shipped out of Eureka. The the fog February 2. The loss is esti­ _ The remainder of the craft arc trolling bav seiners are making frequent but usu­ mated at around $2000. Komure was boats that shipped power gurdics and allY small catches of smelt and some her­ towing the barge ·when the rope broke, deep water gear. Now they are com­ ring fOr bait. Some night fish are being and a search failed to reveal the light­ bination boats that. troll salmon and fish trucked in occasionallv from the beaches er. The next morning found it ·ashore, halibut alternately as the season pro­ near Crescent City. 'i'hey are similar to with seagulls coming from every direc­ gresses. surf fish. Four boats are trolling for ling tion and having a feast on the fish. Many of them take off their chutes cod and red snappers or rock cod at when the salmon show up in May and Crescent City, the fish beinp; trucked to put them on again as soon as the salmon Eureka to be sold and shipped. PLAN 600 FOOT LA PLAYA PIER season slacks off. Most of these boats ar:e under 45 feet in length; and to be "Del Rey" Lost A 600 foot pier at La Playa, for the exact, the majority of them are between The Diesel boat "Del Rey" owned and accommodation of the fishermen whose 38 and 42 feet. operated by Arthur Gugen, who is well tuna clippers anchor there, is planned. Mar Get Early Sizlmon known along the California coast, was Each boat will he assessed, in order to lost at Shelter Cove during the first week get half the money necessary to build Unless the Supreme Court decides in of February. An explosion of unknown favOr of the Fish and Game Commission the pier. The balance will be furnished origin caused the loss. Mr. Gugen got by the city of San Diego. in the injunction case started at Eureka ashore, but did not have time to save his last May, before June of this year the personal belongings. fishermen are of the opinion that they The "Two Sisters," captained by Dick CATCH REDUCED can bring in salmon as they arrive off Richter, has made two trips out this the coast of Eureka. The fishermen have Thle Nova Scotia fish catch during year so far for black cod, but the catches November was considerably reduced by an injunction in force at present that are small. r·estrainS the Fish and Game Commission stormy weather. A drop of one million from interferring with fishermen who are Crab Fleet I ncrcased pounds of fish compared with November, catching salmon outside the three-mile The active crab fleet which has in­ 1928, was noted and the cod fishery fell limif and bringing them into Eureka. creased to nearly 25 craft is almost catch- off 40 per cent for the month.

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ROYAL DECREE SAVES some sort of an international agreement. plete representation of all the states con­ WHALES "Norway, by the royal decree, has ac­ cerned. Michigan has met with Wiscon­ complished more than all of the nations sin and Minnesota, but both of the latter American scientists pay homage to a of the world. As far as conservation is were absent when Michigan conferred king who has linked arms with science concerned, the United States, Australia with Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana and to balk the threatened extinction of and South Africa, all vital areas, have New York. Ontario has always shown a whales. yet to pass regulations. Japan alone, _in ·willingness to participate. King I-Iaakon VII of Norway has ef­ addition to Norway, has intelligent legis­ When these conferences were first sug­ fected by royal decree a set of regula­ lation on the subject." gested it appeared that they offered a tory measures ha]ed by American con­ servationists as among the most con­ possible solution of our coinm'ercial fish­ structive legislation ever dravm up to ing troubles. Consider.able thought had save the waning animal life. SHARK SKIN VALUE TOLD been given to international regulation, Norwegian , whose industry Commercial use of shark leather will and this alone spurred the various local accounts for 75 per cent of the world's change what is now considered a menace governments to attempt to get together catch, are prohibited from capturing the to the fishing industry into one of its and iron out their differences in the in­ smooth or straight-badced species , chief ass·ets, according to an oral ,.state­ terest of preserving this great industry. known as right whales, cows accom­ ment by the Deputy Commissioner, panied by calves, and calves accompany­ Lewis Radcliff, of the Bureau of Fish­ ing a cow. eries, recently. Not only is the .!ikin very HARDWOOD STOCKS Gunners and crews of whaling vessels vaulable, but the fin, liver and other parts Since 1913 C. \V. Bohnhoff has main­ mav not be engaged on terms which will of the shark have a very high commercial tained a complete stock of hardwoods as maice the pay for their work as whalers value. well as other boat construction material dependent r.-.l~hr upon the number of During the past ten years the Bureau such as sugar pine, vthite pine, white ·whales shot. has been trying to promote the use of cedar and spruce. "\Ve appreciate the The king may pr~hibit whalin~ ~n tropical and sub-troo·cal waters w1thm shark leather and remarkable progress quality of lumber necessary in boat con­ certain prescribed rmits. Whalers must has been made, for it was found by com­ struction," says Mr. Bohnhoff, "and parison that shark leather >vas actually be registered '':ith the gover'"!ment an~ a therefore can be relied upon to furnish tax on whale o1l has been lev1ed to mam­ as durable as the highest grade of calf­ the proper class stock to our many boat ta:n scientific research in the industry. skin and could not be successfully imi­ manufacturing customers." The firm has The handling of whale carcasses is pre­ tated. Instead of the fishermen killing been catering to the boat trade from the scribed to insure a minimum amount of and throwing the carcasses of the sharks one location, 1500 S. Alameda Street, waste. back into the water, they are now realiz­ Los Angeles, Calif., since they first en­ "The regulations," according to Rem­ ing that these fish have a value as high tered the yard business in 1913. ington Kellogg and A. Brazier Howell, as most fish .and with continued research of the council for the conservation of work will prove even more valuable than whales, operating under the ausp;ce~ of edible fish, it was said. the American Society of Mammalog1sts, Shark livers contain an oil that is valu­ CENTRAL "are essentially the same as those the able and is considered in many quarters council has been attempting to accom­ as useful as cod liver oil. The amount of SHEET METAL plish for all interested nations through oil contained in the livers varies from 18 WORKS to 200 pounds, the deputy commissioner C. E. Lewis, Prop. said. Shark fins are an oriental delicacy and sell as high as $1 a pound, many thousands of pounds being shipped , through the ports on the \Vest coas't, he pain ted out. One of the features of the industry is that no necessary equipment be placed Marine WorT< a Specialty aboard ships, as fishermen already have San Pedro the paraphernalia, and in many instances Tin, Sheet Iron, Copper and Boat Building Co., line. onlv the crudest kind is used, :rvfr. Rad­ Brass Work ANTON BRAJEVICH, Mgr. cliffe said. The present catch at Green­ Phone Main 5405 Boat Tanlts 718 Front St., Cor. G Phone San Pedro 1433 land is more than 32,000 sharks an nuaiiy and only simple equipment is used, it was SAN DIEGO, CAUFORNIA Builders of shown. All Classes of Commercial Fislling Novelties obtained from other parts of Boats sharks, such as the teeth for souvenirs Repair Worf, of All Kinds and the backbones for walking canes, all Marine Ways and M'llchine Shops tend to make the shark a highly valuable catch commercially. Berth 207 Teryninal Island Luis M. Salazar SHIP BROKER GREAT LAKES INDUSTRY Unsurpassed Service to Fishing In his report to the Secretary of Com­ Boats merce. Henry O'Malley, chief of the Fed­ I The Union eral Bureau of Fisheries, in commenting 306 MUNICIPAL PIER BUILDING upon the Great Lakes fishery situation, TELEPHONE MAIN 1225 says: "To the credit of several states, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Ice Company Michigan in particular, it should be said that the fisheries of the Great Lakes have Just Call San Pedro 3290 for been the subject of much closer study Prompt Delivery and important legislative action than for many years before. Until ail of the gov­ SAN PEDRO ernments bordering each of the lakes W. Murray Little work in closer harmony ·in enacting need­ GROCERY & SUPPLY ful legislation, the seriousness of the sit­ uation can not be considered as having COMPANY Hall.'bor Sheet Metal NICK POBOR, Prop. been relieved." Wholesalers and Retailers of Woli.'ks A number of con­ Imported and Domestic Groceries, l\Inlwrs of GMoline, Fuel, Oil Tanks, Dont Worlt, Ventilators, Retinning Galley WIU'e, ferences between the various states in­ Meats and Canned Goods Drnss, CopJICr and Sheet Iron Work!l volved have been held during the past 248 CANNERY ST. t"·o years. Upon hvo different occasions TERMINAL ISLAND, CALIF. Phone 349 Res. Phone 2425-J 1v!ichigan has been the host. Unfortu­ nately, at no time has there been a com- FEBRUARY,' 1930 45 RS

,Pacldng Proceeds I(. Hovden Says Old Steadily Style Nets Unsuitable Fish packing in the California area K. Hovden, head of the K. Hovden proceeded s t cadi I y during the past Company in 1vfonterey, according to a month, with the saidine season coming statement credited to him in the Mon­ to a close at Monterey on Feb. 15, but terey Herald this month, believes that San Pedro operators look fonvard to an­ the old style net is unsuitable to modern other month of good fishing. Tuna needs. The statement was evoked be­ packing has continued normally. cause of recent protest of the lampara fishermen to the purse-seiners and re­ \Vith the Monterey season closed, San !lewed controversy of the questfon which Pedro canners now have time in which 1t was thought had been settled several to strive to catch up with their northern months ago. competitors, ·who got a head-start on "The lampara versus purse-seine con­ them, their season opening much earlier troversy is hand labor versus the ma­ than in·"-thc south. Canners declare that chine, the horse against the motor car the fish arC IlDl\' showing in abundance. typesetting by hand against the modcr~ They arc being caught both north and linotype. Those lampara men 1vho are south of the harbor and the principal trying to circumvent the purse-seiner are problem during the past month has- been trying to prevent progress, and it can't for the fishermen to find sheltered >vater be done," Mr. Hovden \Vas quoted as in ·which to take them, due to the storms saying. and rough '\Ycather which characterized Mr. Hovden, who recently returned January. The fish are large and uni­ from an extensive trip in the Ea!'it, says .Jorm and very fat. that half of the 600 lampara men are good fishermen and half are not so good, The tuna season got a way to a fair and suggests that the good fishermen im­ start after the holidays and returns to prove their enuipment and the others go 'San Diego and San Pedro have been H. P. McLAUGHLIN to work in the canneries. fairly steady since that time. The prin­ President of the Custom House Packing Company cipal grounds seem to be the islands and of Monterey, CaHf., which recently won an im­ * * * banks of Cape San Lucas, few fish show­ portant Superior Court decision against the Cali­ Van Camp Sea Footl Co., Inc., fornia Fish and Game Commission. The Com­ Atmounces Appointment ing as far north as Magdalena Bay. A mission hail attl!lllpted to close the plant because few heavy catches have been made on of alleged violation of the re~uction law, but o~­ Under date of Feb. 10 the Van Camp r.c:~l]s of the company chumcd that fish di­ the high seas, and, in certai1i instances Sea Food Co., Inc., Terminal Island, the captains have refused to divulge verted into the reduction plant during the ten-day period in C'Ucstion by the Commission could not Calif., issued an announcement to the where they got their fish, claiming that be canned because of difficulties with new machin­ effect that Allen F. Harnett has been ap­ they have discovered new fishing ery which I)-ad just. been installed ... The, S!-lperior grounds. Court dec:s10n, wh1ch scored the CommlSston foT pointed as Pacific Coast sales manager not enforcing the law with reasonableness, is a of the company. "1-Ir. Harnett brings to A. D. Lee, marine superintendent of vindication of the integrity of Mr. McLaughlin his work a long and varied experience in the California Packing Corporation, de­ and his associates marketing our special products," the an­ nouncement said. clares that tuna prospects arc better as Shrimp Cannery time goes on, due to the fact that the Begins Operation "1-fr. Harnett will be constantly in the fishermen are becoming much better Last month operations were begun at field \Vorking with our distributors, and acqmtinted with the Mexican ·waters and the new cannery of L. P. lviaggioni & we are confident that the closer coopera­ are more expert in locating bait and ilon afforded by having our own repre­ tuna. Co., at St. Augustine, Fla. Shrimp packed in glass is to be a specialty. It is ex­ sentative in close contact 1vith our dis­ * * * pected that an additional cannery will be tributors will \vork to our mutual bene­ Stvit::erlantl Marlwls erected next year to take care of addi­ fit. Mr. Harnett will be located with our Northern California representatives Mail­ for Sardines tional lines planned and for which experi­ mental \Vork is now under way. The liard & Schmiedell, 203 California 'street Pood quantities of California pilchards building which houses the new cannery San Francisco, and we feel sure that h~ are being sold in Switzerland, according is 50 by 150 feet in size. Another build­ will receive the enthusiastic cooperation to a report of the Department of Com­ ing 140 by SO feet in front of the machin­ of all the trade in his new work. This Slerce by American Vice Consul A. \V. ery structure has been erected, to be used company counts itself fortunate to have .cott, at Easel. The imports of Ame­ in the preparation of the raw products. been able to secure the services of a man ncan sardines have shown a large in­ A third building in the rear will be leassed of the ability of AI. Harnett." crease during the last few years; and for a warehouse. All machines in the js the. American article is considerably * * * 0 plant arc operated by electric drives and \\'Per m price than sardines from France by alternating machinery on various lines Terulich Visils or · or:tugal, it promises to have an even the company expects to run hvelve lllonlerey n;are Important sale in the future. Pil­ e lards from the United States are now months of the year. C. B. Tendick, of the United States ~yell known to all classes of the popula­ • • • Bureau of Fisheries, arrived in lvfontere};, a'on and are sold in the small villages B. Houssels, vice president of the Van Calif., this month in connection with a (" Well as in the larger cities and tmvns . Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., Terminal Is­ general survey of \Vest Coast fisheries . anned salmon from the United States land, Calif., has been elected a member and fishing conditions, 1vhich is an an­ ~\·on sale in many stores iri the larger of the Industrial ?1-l'anufacturers' com­ uual undertaking of the bureau. Mr. Ten­ aides and enjoys a fairly large damand, mittee of the Los Angeles chamber of dick's headquar-ters are at Seattle. His c 10ugh not nearly so large as in the commerce as a representative of the fish present work is in connection with a sur­ ase of pilchards. canners. vey of conditions all over the country. 46 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

(I) Skeleton cf Ulmann exhaust box under construction at Stan~ard Boiler & Etecl Works at Los Angeles. (2) Feed·in of the Ulmnnn exhaust box. (3) Feed~:n opened up, showing automatil: feed mechanism, also grid en which the cans are placed and racks that piclt them up, carrying them th~ou<;h the exhaust box; also slats which center the cans on racks and steam pipe conneclions to the left (4) Discharge end and drainer open. (S) Discharge end and drainer, also drive motor and reJucdcn gear; the inventor of the exhaust box standing to the leit.

MBODYlNG many new and revolu­ mediately shuts off the power. If by E tionary features, and with predictions New Exhaust Box any chance something should happen to that it will be a factor of great import­ one can in the box it docs not in the ance in the California sardine industry, least affect the operation, as the can an Ulmann exhaust box, the first to be Equipnwnl at J7 an Camp Plant lias merely falls down to the bottom. installed in the San Pedro packing Revolutionary 1'e11lures AccessibU:ty center, was pul into operation on Janu­ All the sides and the top of the VI­ ary 20 at the I. P. plant of the Van mann exhaust box arc instantly remova­ Camp Sea Foods Co., Inc., at Terminal ble, giving very desirable accessibil!ty. Island, Calif., and it is running without It takes 26~ minutes normally for a The box is very easily cleaned by talung a hitch since the first can of sardines can to go through the Ulmann exhaust off the doors and hosing down aft.er a ;,vas put through it, according to Karl box, although the process can be speeded up, and durmg that period it is subjected run. The box is galvanized throughout StrQmsen, superintendent. and the pipes are galvanized, so that it This exhaust box is the invention of to d:rect contact with steam from per­ is rust-resisting. There is, furthermore, E. A. Ulmann and is manufactured, un­ forated pipes which extend across the no chance for dirt or rust to drop into der patents, by the Standard Boiler & box between each of the vertical runs. A the cans as there is no dragging of Steel Works of Los Angeles. Cleanli­ temperature of from 210 to 212 degrees chains over tracks or gu:des, and as the ness, efficiency, freedom from trouble, at the top of the box and frOm 205 to 208 chains are not under the cans they are and economy in operation and upkeep degrees at the bottom is maintained not subject to rust and corrosion and are among the prominent advantages through the exhausting. The result is keep nicely lubricated without any at­ claimed for the ne'v exhaust box. The that the fish are thoroughly and com­ tention. pletely cooked, so that the back-bone Ulmann box combines the greatly de­ Only two horsepower is required to sired features of tremendous capacity strips right out and the fish fall open and do not show'' any red along the back-bone. run the Ulmann box and steam is sup­ and small floor space. It holds 2720 plied by a one-inch line, throttled away one-pound oval cans of sardines and oc­ The oil recovery has •been shown in act­ ual operation to be one and one-quarter down. The conveying chains run only cupies a floor space of only 19 by G feet. 6% feet per minute and the drive shaft It is 9% feet high. The box will handle gallons pe.r ton of sardines. Feed and discharge arc automatic. makes only 2~-i revolutions per minute, 105 cans a minute and will keep three so there is very little wear. All bearings old style closing machines bmy. The The trouble-proof characteristic of the are lubricated by Alemite fiHings from maximum output is about 130 cans a Ulmann box consists in the impossibility the outside of the box. minute, depending on the speetl in put­ of jamming, because the cans remain sta­ ting them on the racks. tionary on the conveyors all the time they The conveying chains are only" 200 feet long on each side and are ver)' The cans are carried on racks sus­ are in the box. The feed is so arranged heavy-of 7000 pounds breaking strength pended pcndulantly between pins on that if any cans are in the ·way, the -yet operate without any appreciable chains at each side of the box which run others do not jam, because the feed rail strain on them antl a minimum of wear. is pulled in by springs and held out by An absence of complex or special parts vertically passing over and under sprock­ and a simplicity of construction through­ ets at the top and bottom. Its operation the can. On the discharge, if the cans out furth'er assure a minimum of grief is like a continuous ferris wheel. cannot get out the automatic s'.vitch im- and maximum of satisfaction. FEBRUAJ{Y, 1930 47

according to packers' figures, is 15,569,- and 2 per cent in value. These exports Salmon Catch High 949. consisted of 2,776,824 gounds of canned · Washington packers reported the fol­ salmon, valued at $521,025; 11,391,829 lowing figures for net gear: Chinook, pounds of canned sardines, valued at Columbia River Yields Great 5,?88,586~ steelhead, 1,352,138; blueback, $839,486; 1,339,964 poun·ds of other canned Hulk of Fish 316,?98; silverside, 1,044,778; chum, fish and shellfish, valued at $211,076; and 834,936; white sturgean, 36,779; green 4,264,703 pounds of fresh aud cured fish sturgeon, 11,6681, and shad, 567,757, a Salmon taken from both the Oregon and other , including shell­ total of 9,953,453 pounds. fish, valued at $644,544. and Washington banks of the Columbia Fish taken on trolling gear amounted river with net gear and trolling equip­ The United Kingdom alone received to 222,233 pounds of Chinook and 330,- 65 per cent of the canned salmon, while n1ent during the interval between April 756 pounds of silversidc, a total of 552,- 1 1929, and November 30, 1929, the Philippine Islands, Netherland East 989. Indies, and all Europe received 58 per a~1 ounted to 26,076,391 pounds and the The grand total for Washington is ~anned quantity is estimated to be cent of the canned sardines. 10,506,442. Imports-Imports during November, valued at $5,905,024, 11. T. Hoy, master The total value of the entire catch for fish warden of the Oregon state fish 1929, amounted to 37,179,360 pounds the past season, Mr. Hoy pointed out, valued at $4,002,451, as compared with commission, announces from figures cannot be fully estimated because of the supplied by packers and dealers of both 37,617,826 pounds, valued at $4,068,310, large quantity of fish which is marketed for the same month a year ago. This states. in either a frozen, mild cure or fresh The total pack of the canneries of represents a decrease of 1 per cent in state, in addition to that portion \Vhich amount and 2 per cent in value. These both states amounted to 422,117 full is canned. , cases, it was shown, and the 1928 totals imports consisted of 15,202,795 pounds of The season's report· is incomplete in fresh and frozen fish valued at S1,090,- for the same commodity were 446,646, a the three final month5, he said, Decem­ difference of 24,529 cases. 770; 19,355,172 pounds of cure-d and ber, January and February, but little in­ canned fish, valued at $1,923,183; and 2,- Regular commercial net gear used in crease can be expected when these totals the Columbia river by Oregon fishermen 821,393 pounds of fresh and canned shell­ have been forwarded. The season might fish, valued at $988,498. during the past year accounted for a be construed to end, as far as active re­ take of 8,573,145 pounds of Chinook, 1,- '!'he imports during November, 1929 muneration to the fi ...,hermen is con­ compared with those for the same montl; 276,177 pounds of steelhead, 356,176 cerned, on November 30. pOunds of blueback, 944,552 pounds of a year ago, show that fresh and frozen silverside, 1,037,552 pounds of chum or fish increased 20 per cent in amount and dog salmon. A total of 763,863 pounds FOREIGN FISllliRY TRA.DE 12 per cent in value; cured and canned of shad ·was taken, and 86,296 pounds of Statistics used in the following were fish decreased 13 per cent in amount v/hite sturgeon and 18,338 pounds of compiled and assembled from reports re­ and 13 per cent in value; and fresh and green sturgeon, a total take of 13,056,- leased by the Bureau of Foreign and canned shell-fish increased 2 per cent 099 pounds. Domestic Commerce. in amount and 12 per cent in value. Trolling gear used by Oregon fisher­ Exnorts-During November, 1929, 19.- Imports of fresh and frozen fish con­ men ins:de the river accounted for 898,- 733,320 pOUlHls of domestic fishery pro­ sisted mainly of fresh--water fish and 480 pounds of Chinook, 2080 pounds of ducts, valued at $2,216,1.11 were exported eels, herring, and tuna. Imports of cured stcelhead, four pounds of blueback (one from the United States, compared with and canned fish consisted principally of fish), and 1,613,282 pounds of s:lverside 16.818,298 pounds, valued at $2,173.943 cod, sardines, herring, and mackerel; salmon. The total was 2,513,850. for the same month a year previous. This while itnJ)Orts of· shell-fish were princi­ The grand total for Oregon fishermen, is an increase of 17 per cent in amount pally crab meat, shrimp, and lobsters . • "Repeal Sales are the best reconun.en.dation" CAL-REY Brand Portola Tuna needs no introduction

Year after year California Sardines our volume in­ creases not be· RE packed in a spotless Brand cause of new cus· New Cannery after our ad­ tomen added, hut A vanced improved method because of old thus assuring the trade of a Super­ customersre· ordering in great­ quality product. Also packers of er quantities. Custom and Feature brands. Portola Tuna is extra fancy. Custom House Also Packers of PORTOLA SARDINES Packing Corporation MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA K. Hovden Co. "The Sardine Port of the West Coast" MONTEREY, CALlFORN!A 48 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

April ...... 101,015 1,355,433 CANADIAN LOBSTERS Monterey Receipts May ...... 76,985 1,588,192 The catch of Canadian lobsters during 1929 is about 15% ahead of 1928. The Past Y ~;or's Landings at Peninsula June ...... 20,777 2,556,414 Fish Port greatest gain was made in New Bruns­ July ...... 47,069 1,66e.541 wick which \Vas full 40% ahead of the August ...... 44,647,992 1,174,117 previous year. Prince Edward Island 1vfontercy's sardine fishing industry September ...... 33,734,187 686,755 came next with a gain of 12%%, Nova consumed 323,301,506 pounds qf fish dur­ October 62,842.,090 489,680 Scotia 10% and Quebec about 7%%. No ing 1929, an increase of 101,734,866 ...... extensions of the lobster season ·were pounds or more than 45 per cent over November 42,956,125 672,295 granted for any part of the coast in 1929 1928, ivhe~l the year's catch amounted to· December .19,470,185 447,243 and it is thought that with the increased 221,566,640 pounds. In 1927 the catch catch last year, the decline in the supply was 173,881,177 pounds, indicating the Totals .. , . , ... 323,3011,506 12,058,557 of lobsters has been arrested. The can­ progre5sivc expansion of the ind',ustry *This figure includes shellfish and ning trade favor another period of five during the last three yeai-s, each of ivhich squid totaling 8,054,402 pounds. Detailed years without any extensions or changes has been marked by record-breaking pro­ data on fresh fish caught in 1929 will be in the fishing seasons. By the end of duction. g1vcn m a following article. that time, the wisdom of the present reg­ A rough estimate of the value of the ulations as regards conservation would various sardine products of 1929 is $6,- then be shown. 085,244. This represents a considerable A large increase \Vas shown in the decrease in value as compared with the SARDINES OR HERRING? shipment of live lobsters particularly in year 1928. The value of sardine products An effort is to be made to convince Quebec. It is thought that business done for that year was estimated at $6,598,550. the British government that the sardines in live lobsters in 1928 was the record for Twelve canneries arc now operating in packed in Canada are really sardines. all time. There is also promise of a Monterey. There arc 15 reduction plants. The order forcing the Canadian packers good market for picked lobster meat and Of these only three h;.tve no connection to cease using the name of sardines, has it is thought that in certain sections, the with any cannery, the Globe Grain and worked much hardship on Connors Bros. trade will increase. The pack of canned }.-filling Company, the Vegetable Oil Ltd., ·who have been aiming at the Brit­ lobsters was 12,500 cases more than in Company and the Bayside Fish Flour 1928 and the quality of the pack was ish market. The Norwegian, French and good. Company. The other plants are operated German sardines now almost monopo­ in connection with the canneries, which lize the British market on small sardines, are as follows: Del i\Iar, Booth, Cali­ and the contention has been advancer] fornia Packing Corporation, Gross, K. that the fish packed as sardines in Can­ PLAN ADVERTISING DRIVE Hovden, Monterey, 1Ionterey Sardine ada are reallv small herring, -.,yhiJc those Products, San Carlos, San Xavier, Cus­ At a recent meeting of sardine packers canned in EUrope do not gl-ow larger. of the Maine coast plans were considered tom House, Sea Pride, and Carmel Pack­ to launch an advertising campaign to ing. The fOllowing figures were furnished further sales of their product. A com­ through the courtesy of S. H. Dado of $500 SCHOLARSHIP mittee was appointed to confer with the the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of \Vesley Stewart, St. John, N. B., has packers not representc{l at the meeting, the California DivisiOn of Fish and won a $500 scholarship in fisheries tech­ and no definite action is to he taken until the: attitude of these packers is Game. nology at Dalhousie University, Halifax. This scholarship is known as the Atlan­ learned. It is regarded as practically 1929 Fish Catch by Months in Pounds tic Coast Fisheries Scholarship and has certain, ho\vevcr, tlHtt the campaign will be undertaken. It is planned to educate Month­ Sardines *Fresh Fish been instituted by H. F. Taylor, vice­ president of the Atlantic Coast Fisher­ the public, according to the packers, in January 29,654,270 555,362 ies Company, who became interested in !he economy, convenience ant) palatahil­ February 42,567,776 362,638 Dalhousie's School of Fisheries last tty of sardines and also in new ways of preparing them. 1Iarch 27,183,035 5U1,887 summer.

SALMON AND SARDINE EXPORTS FeE~ Booth Company~ lnce Exports of canned salmon during De­ Paclters of cember totaled 5,594,600 pounds, valued at $1,093,153, compared to 5,196,423 pounds, valued at $761,053, in Decei;pber Cali£ornia of 1928. Exports of canned sardines were 16,076,214 ,;pounds, valued at $1,168,120, Canned Sardines compared to 11,103,187 pounds, valued at $823,849, in 1928. . Exports of canned. salmon for the en­ tire year were 40,967;378 pounds ($7,405,- 941), compared to 40,952,705 pounds ($7,­ (J01,733) in 1928. Exports of canned sar~ ~ines were 123,915,062 pounds ($9,418,­ ~11) compared to 80,253,474 pounds ($6,- 522,711) in 1928, according to the "Butch­ FRUITS-ASPARAGUS-VEGETABLES ers' Advocate." SHAD ROE "Canneries at llfonlerey, Pittsburg, Centerville CANADA RESTRICTS SEINING Restriction of purse-seiners in British ~olumbia waters, most particularly dur~ FRESH FISH SPECIALISTS mg the Chum salmon run, is to be ex· WHOLESALE and RETAIL peeled this year and perhaps for several years, packers and fishermen have been informed by Han. \iV. A. Found, deputy Markets: San Francisco, Stockton, San Diego :ninister of fisheries for Canada, at mcct­ mgs in Vancouver and Prince Rupert. GENERAL OFFICES: Regulations such as were proposed by 110 Market St., San Francisco the government would seriously cripple the industry, it was contended by fisher~ men and packer alike. FEBRUARY, 1930 49

Canned Sardines , .. 60,000 .1,850 ALUMINUM FOR CANS fish Shipments Chile, Canned n.o.s.. . 11,250 1,000 Aluminum instead of tin is being tried Canned Sardines .. 31,320 1,950 out in the Nor·wegian canned fish indus­ Repor~ f~r Los .A11geles Harbor for Costa Rica, Cn. n.o.s. 6,240 450 try. Fifty thousand aluminum cans are Month of December Canned Sardines .. 37,630 2,440 being used for fish balls and other fish Cuba, Canned n.o.s.. . 3,840 340 products. The higher price of aluminum 5,130 The report of Los Angeles harbor for Canned Sardines ... 66,390 is the main drawback, but it is thought Java Canned n.o.s .... 52,800 4,070 the month of December, 1929, shows that costs can be reduced by leaving off c;nned Sardines ... 518,750 32,100 the label and embossing the cans. movement of fish out of the port as Sumatra, Cn. n.o.s.. . . 480 so follows: Canned Sardines ... 134,100 8,660 Intercoastal Outbound Tons Value Dutch East Indies, FRANK VAN CAMP, Preo. Fish Cnd. n.o.s.*..... 1,576 $567,360 Sardines ...... 208,910 13,530 :Mackerel ...... 65 13,000 Ecuador, Cu. n.o.s ... 12,000 1.080 Sard:ncs ...... 431 86,200 Canned Sardines . . . 7,950 '670 The Van Camp SeaFood Tuna ...... 61 31,720 Egypt, Canned n.o.s .. 35,490 .1,150 Hawaii Outbound Canned Sardines . . . 45,490 2,960 Canned and Pres. . . . . 37 13,320 England, Cn. Sardines 412,340 27,453 Company., Inc. Fresh ...... 8 800 France. Cn. Sardines.386,610 24,640 Coastwise Outbound Germany, Cn. n.o.s ... 11,630 844 Packeru. of Canned and Pres. Greece, Canned n.o.s .. 94,770 8,000 n.o.s...... 48 17,280 Canned Sardines ... 255,380 15,380 That Famous 1.fackerel ...... 2 400 Guatemala, Canned Sardines ...... 382 76.400 Sardines ...... 34,490 2.160 'funa ...... 18 9,360 Hongkong, Cn. n.o.s .. 32,400 3.630 "Whit-e Star Tuna" EXPORTS Canned Sardines .. .459,820 27,390 And Various Other California Italy, Cn. Sardines . . 9,600 570 Sea Foods lvianchuria, Cn. n.o.s. 2,400 370 Lbs. Value Home Office--Terminal Island, Cal. Africa, canned n.o.s... 2.960 250 Mexi-co. Cn. Sardines 9,000 670 Sardines ...... 762,780 63,050 Netherlands, Canned Australia, Canned Sardines ...... 56,330 4,250 n.o.s. -...... 6,900 700 Palestine and Syria, Canned Sardines ... 15,400 960 Brh~·ium, Canned Panama, Cn. Sardines 13,080 1,070 S!=~rrFne;:; ...... 233,500 15,960 General Fisheries Bolivia, Canned Peru, Cn. Sardines . . . 4,800 350 Phil;ppines, Canned n.o.s...... 2,240 190 Corporation Bornr-o, Canned n.o.s. . ... , ...... 335.290 29.240 Sardines and Mackerel Sardines ...... 49,990 3,430 Canned Sardines ... 641,650 46,645 CANNERS Porto Rico, Canned British India, Canned P. 0. Box 998 San Pedro, Calif, Snrdincs ...... 323.840 22,810 Sardines ...... 128,980 9,070 Ceylon, Canned n.o.s. 9,600 SalYador, Canned 760 Sardines ...... 5.520 ,380 Scotland, Cn. Sardines 4,800 350 Siam,· Cn. Sardines ... 115,500 7,300 Long Beach Salt Co. Straits Settlements, Canned n.o.s ...... 13.440 1,310 "The Dependable· Salt" Canned Sardines , .. 672,380 44,730 1Mi'~r DIRECT FROM OUR PLANT TO YOU S\\·itzerland, Canned Long Beach, California Sardines ...... 20,850 1,340 WESTERN SAL'l CO. All grades crude and refined salt for the Venezuela, Canned Reumshed Coarse Salt Fishing Industry Sardines ...... 136,300 8,810 SAN DIEGO, CALIF. *Nut otherwise specified. MONTEREY BAY SARDINES Leading Fancy Brands: EL CAPITAN, GRILL, EL MAR FISH OIL and MEAL E.B.GROSS CANNING COMPANY Sales Office and Pln.nt, Monterey, Calif. Cable Address "GROSS"

SARDINE CANNERS ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA OFFICERS Frank Van Camp, President, Terminal Island. B. D. IUnrx Greene, Vice~President and General Man~ E. S. Wnngenheim, First Vice-President, San Francisco. nger, San Francisco. B. A. Irving, Second Vice-President, San Francisco. P. A. Ford, Secretary-Treasurer, San Francisco. DIRECTORS B. G. IUaxson, F. E. Booth Co., Inc., S'an Francisco. J{, Hovden, 1{. Hovden Co., Monterey. Frank Van Camp, Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., Ter· H. A. Irving, Sen Pride Packing Corp., Ltd., San Frnn- minal Island. cisco. E. S. Wangenheim, Carmel Canning Co., Monterey. N. J, Kuglis, General Fisheries Corp., San Pedro. W. F. Wood, Southern California Fish Corporation, Julius E. Linde, Linde Packing Corporation, T(!nninal Tel"l11inal Island. Island. E. ll. Gross, E. B. Gross Canning Co., Monterey. Address All Correspondence to the Office of the Vice-President and General Manager 1603 Alexander Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 50 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES

An Ambitious livers it into another elevatOr, which in GloiJe Plant African Enterprise turn delivers it to a grinding apparatus. Injoined The S. S. "Seapro,'' a steamer of a ton~ This grinder grinds up the bones and Another round in the Monterey reduc­ nage of 5350 tons, has been converted meal to a very fine powder and delivers it tion controversy has just come to a close, into a floating factory for the production into a screening apparatus which sepa­ with the granting of a temporary injunc­ of tinned crayfish, food for cattle, me­ rates the coarser particles and returns tion by Judge H. G. ] orgensen of the dicinal and technical oils, off Africa, by them to the grinder for further treatment. 1v1onterey County superior court restrain­ the Sea Products, Ltd., of England. From the screen the fine, pure meal falls itlg the Globe Grain and 1-Iilling Com­ The African seas are literally teeming directly into bags and is ready to be sent pany from operating their Monterey n~-· with fish, a vast treasury of edible food. to the market. The whole of this work is duction plant, pending trial of the suit The object, therefore, of this vast float­ done automatically and is not touched by brought by Deputy District Attorney ing factory is to tap this virgin treasure hand from the time of the fish being Argyll Campbell to have the plant de­ of the sea, to convert the products into thrown into the cutter until it is deliv­ clared a public nuisance. food for men and animals, and produce a ered into bags. The whole process is, as perfect cod liver oil for pharmaceutical previously explained, quite continuous, Campbell's action, brought about l\vo purposes. and only takes from two to two and one­ months ago, following formal protests by Sixty to one hundred tons of this fish half hours to pass from the inlet of the the Monterey Chamber of Commerce and will be brought to the factory every 24 apparatus to the outlet. , the Monterey post of the American Le­ hours. The very prime fish will be cleaned In the drying of the fish, from 70 to 75 gion against granting a permit to the and put into the refrigerating rooms per cent of water is removed -in the form Globe Grain and 1.filling Company, ready to send to the market by fast car­ of vapor. This vapor is rapidly evacu­ charges that the plant is a public nuis­ rier when required. The C"odfish will be ated from the ·apparatus as quickly as it ance, that it constitutes a great waste of gutted and the livers taken away, washed is formed by means of a po\verful ex­ fish, and that the State Fish and Game Commission, "\vhich granted the permit, and dealt with in a plant for the produc­ haust fan connected by branches to every tion of pure cod liver oil. At least 60 tons section. The vapors arc delivered into has no legal authority to issue permits for exclusive reduction plants. It is con­ per 24 hours of what is termed "white" huge condensers, where they are met by fish, that is, fish of a non-oily nature, will a vast quantity of sea water, something tended that only the Department of Natural Resources has power to grant be taken while perfectly fresh to pmverful like 65 tons per hour. This water con­ drying apparatus and converted into a denses the vapors and turns them into such permits, and that the company re-· perfectly pure food for cattle, this food liqui{l form, the liquid being picked up by ferred to, not being a "canner of sar­ being of extremely high nutritive value. pumps and forced overboard into the sea. dines or engaged in the business of pre­ In some instances, fish of an oily na­ There is also a very small percentage of serving sardines by the common methods ture will be dealt with. This also will be vapor >vhich is not condensable by water, of drying, safting, smoking or pickling," dried in- a similar manner to the :white and this is driven by the fan into a duct has used sardines in violation of the law. fish, but will then undergo a further proc­ and thence up the boiler chimney. The law provides, in effect, that only can­ ess to eliminate the oil content, the oil be­ Apart from the livers, only a small ners and packers of fish may use sardines ing used for technical purposes, such as portion of oily fish will be dealt with. in reduction plants, and then only to the the treatment of leather, for the paint in­ This, however, is treated in the drying extent of 320 per cent of the catch, ex­ dustry, and for many other uSes, the re­ machines in a similar manner to that pre­ cept that the commission may grant per­ mits for the use-of a certain tonnage for sidual meal being used for edible or fer­ viously described. In this case, however, edible oil or edible meal, providing this tilizer purposes1 according to the edibility the dried meal is delivered by elevator Or otherwise of the fish. Another section does Dot tend to cause depletion of the from the drying machines to a store bin species. &f the faCtory is devoted to the treatment on the top deck. From this bin the oily Qf the crayfish or spiny lobster, in which meal is delivered into vessels which are That the delegation of authority to the the sea abounds. Th!-! edible portions will , termed extractors. These vessels are filled State Fish and Game Commission to-de~ be cooked and canned, there being a tin with the meal, scaled up, and the meal cide to whom reduction permits shall be rnanufacturing section for making the covered by a non-inflammable solvent. granted and to whom they shall he re­ necessary tins. This solvent mixes with the oil in the fused is unconstitutional is the claim of , The i.Yhole of ·the machinery is driven meal, and the mixture of sOlvent and oil the forces making the fight a_gainst the by means of electric motors, an electric is allowed to drain away from the bottom granting of the permit in question. That generating station being part of the ship's of the extractor intO a vessel where the such plenary powers would tend to·ward equipment. solvent is recovered for further use, and the creation of a monopoly is the conten~ , The fish that requires to be dried for the oil purified, all traces of the solvent tion of :1\.fr. Campbell. Judge Jorgensen is use as a cattle food is passed through a being eliminated therefrom. The meal in quoted by the :rvf onterey Herald as fol~ continuous apparatus, the first machine of the extractor receives several solvent lows, in connection with the granting of -which is a fish-cuttmg apparatus which washes until, .by means of test taps on the the temporary injunction: "It is my idea chops up and minces the fish, which falls apparatus, it is found that all the oil has that the clause in the law is unconstitu­ automatically into what is termed a steril­ been eliminated. The extraction vessels tional which enables the Fish and Game izing apparatus, which is a steam-jack­ are fitted with stirring gear, which is then Commission to grant special privileges to eted tube in \vhich the fish albumen is set into motion so as to break up the some citizens which are denied to others coagulated. It is then passed automati­ meal, and wet steam is blown upward;:; equally entitled to them." cally into' a series of steam-jacketed dry­ into the meal through a perforated plate The date of the formal heari11g on the itlg tubes and eventualy is delivered out in the. bottom of the extractor. injunction has not been set and the final at the end of the apparatus dried down This steaming process is continued un­ to the r.cquired degree of moisure. The til it is found that all the solvent ha;:; been outcome is being awaited with consider­ meal is then in a heated condition, and driven off from the meal. The discharge able interest by the entire fishing indus­ falls into a worm conveyor \vhich propels door of the extractor is then opened and try. It is deemed quite probable that, the meal fonvard into an elevating appa­ the stirring gear automatically discharges whether a permanent injunction is grant~ ratus, which delivers into a cooling ap­ the meal into an elevator, thence to an paratus, consisting of a water-jacketed 1'after drying" apparatus where the meal ed or not, the matter will be carried by worm, the jacket being fed with cold is dried down to the required degree of either one side or the other to the State Sea-water. This cools the meal and de- moisture. It then passes through a cool- Supreme Court, or possibly higher. 'F JEB R U A R Y, 1 9 3 0 5J

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Fish Most recommended as a diet to prevent or aid Ilom to Get Healthy Food in the cure of goiter, because of the Delinquent Accounts iodine content of sea food, and this bene­ Here is the ·way one business man Fish retailers should have such argu­ went after a delinquent account: He ments as this at their· finger-tips in order ficial nature of fish holds true in a greater or less degree for other vital elements. made a thorough investigation and dis­ best to promote their trade: Fish is the covered that the customer could pay. but most healthy food in the world! * * * that he ·was careless about settling. ·This is not the over-enthusiastic statc­ Knowing this, the dealer proceeded to m.ent of persons who deal in fish, but the Fish Available telephone the customer every morning calm ·decision of scientists who have to Retailers at about 5:30, and it did not take very studied· the earth and its connection with A calendar of fresh fish vanettes avail­ many calls before the bill· was paid. fOod production and· the various vital able to the retailers in Southern Califor­ This may require a little nerve, but hard n1ineral elements of the earth and their nia is published herewith through the 'cases require hard methods, says the distribution in the foods we eat. courtesy of C. M. Small, manager of the "National Butcher" magazine. According to these scientists, ever since Van Camp organizations. the beginning of time the rivers of the In season: Barracuda, local halibut, • • * ·world have been ·carryng to the sea by a local sea bass, yellowtail, rock cod, red Paclmged Meats slow and steady process of eroson great snappers, tuna, bonita, ,vhite fish, blue Proposed amounts of all the precious minerals of perch, sea trout, island smelts, jack American meat packers propose to sell the land, and the sea today caries in a smelts, sculpin, sardines, herring, king-fish, meat in small pieces, packed in transpar­ high degree of solution almost every val­ soles, sand dabs, catfish, devil fish, jumbo ent paper. By this step, it is believed that uable mineral of the earth. crabs, boiled black cod, gray cod, large meat will be sold like other, packaged We therefore see why fish are healthy rock bass, kelp bass, kippered herring, goods, and .chops and steaks coUld be re­ as a· fOod; living in the mineral waters, finnan baddies, frog legs, filet of baddies, tailed at drug stores and soda fountains·. they are bound to absorb a great deal of scallops, Alaska shrimp, Southern shrimp, The price would be hij!her, but it is felt the elements necessary to the welfare of New York oysters, Olympic cocktail that the advantages will be appreciated human life. It is well known that fish is oysters, halibut, salmon, filet of sole. by the housewife. Van Camp Organizations Producers and Distributors of Sea Foods

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Empire Cold Storage & Bentley Joins Liverpool, and will be taken to Aber­ Paching Co. Sold S. F. International deen for the alterations necessary for Collier H .. Buffington and J. R. Burke, Austin Ivi. Bentley, president of the the equipment of special plant, installa­ o\vners of the Gold Beach acl~ing Comp­ Nordic Sales Company, announces the tion of a brine-freezing system, fish any of Gold Beach Ore., have acquir.ed dissolution of the company, coincident meal plant, and cod -liver oil cookers. the controlling interest in the Emptre with appointment of hmself to the posi­ \Vhen completed she will sail for the Cold Storage and Packing Company at tion of sales manager for the San Fran­ Davis Straits and fish for halibut. The Empire,. Ore., on Coos Bay, it is an­ vessel itself will do no fishing, but will cisco International Fish Company, one act as mother sh:p to a fleet of 30 motor nounced. of the big five of Northern California. , which will use the long-line The plant will be operated hereafter by Mr. Bentley is one of the most pro­ method of fishing as customarily prac­ these two prominent Oregon fish men. minent men connected with fish distribu­ tised. The halibut \vill be rapid-frozen For the present at least it 1vill be op­ tion in California, and as head of the on board the mother ship, both whole erated as an independent unit under its Nordic Sales Company it is he that put and in steaks. present name. the Nordic fillet of haddock on the mar­ Cod will also be fished for, the livers During the year 1929 the Empire plant ket in the western states, thus he is given was oneratcd in conjunction with the being processed in the steam cookers considerable credit for the present-day and the oil barreled and stored. The Marshfield plant of Chas. Feller, Inc., popularity of fillets in general. both plants being leased to and operated codfish will be both salted and filletted. by .. _a holding company under the name At the present time it is undecided as to * * * whether or not a filletting machine will of -Feller Fish Company. The new ar­ be carried as an experiment; the indica­ rangement means the liquidation of F el­ One That Ditln't Get Arvar tions are that hand labor will be used ler Fish Company. the Feller plant to be at least on the first trip. The fillets operated hereafter in the name of Chas. Memories of bygone days, when the will, of course, he rapid frozen. The Feller, Inc., as it was prior to the 1929 Sacramento River was the center of a waste fish and trimmings will be reduced season, and the Empire plant to be oper­ thriving salmon fishery, \Verc renewed for to fish meal in the plant aboard the ves­ ated by Burke and Buffington it is under­ old-timers in that section when, on Janu­ sel. stood. ary 22, S. Rimini delivered a Chinook It is intended to go up as soon as the * * * salmon to A. Paladini's Pittsburg plant vessel is ready, and return in October. It's a Bm· which measured nearly five feet in length She may run to England and Germany Says Jaci~' and weighed over seventy-five pounds. first to dispose of the bulk of the halibutr Its a boy says Jack Deluca manager Alec Paladini and other men with and then return to the United States so of the Los Angeles Fish & Oyster Comp­ hventy and twenty-five ·years' experience as to place the rest of the fish on the any of Los Angeles, Calif. Yes Sir, Jack on the "River" declare it the largest market during the closed season in force is a proud papal Arrival of the new son salmon ever taken out of the Sacramento. on the Pacific Coast, November 15 to and heir took place at the San Pedro The fish was sent to San Francisco and February 15. General Hospital on Feb. 14, and Jack sold to Bernstein's Fish Grotto, where it The Greenland banks have long been has been paying but little personal atten­ \vas put on display in their show \vin­ recognized as being well populated with tion to the selling of fish since then, dow.-W. R. S. halibut. Several expeditions have been spending most of his time at the hospital. sent to the banks from England, and in Mrs. Deluca is reported to be doing nice­ * * * practically all instances have been pro­ ly, thank you. The name of the new fitable to the backers of the enterprise. member of the family has not yet been Prins Visits California One expedition, the "Helder," has at­ announced. tracted special attention, the fish being * * • J. Chas. Prins, manager of the Ripley sent to England both fresh and frozen. Whale Visits Fish Company, 3eattle, VVash., was a vis­ The steamer is, already equipped \vith San Francisco itor in California during last month, com­ three SO-ton York refrigerating mil­ A large and aggressive whale was num­ bining business with pleasure. 1{r. Prins chines, and that company is designing bered amongst the visitors to San Fran­ called at the municipal fish wharf, San the freezing system to be used. cisco Bay this month. His presence \Vas Pedro, and visited his many acquaint­ ances there. A .'3000-ton trip of halibut-which is discovered ·when he ran into a Southern not without the realm of possibility­ Pacific ferry boat which ran athwart his will bring a gross return of over a mil­ course. The collision must have discour­ Exports * * * lion dollars at the_ price of 18 cents a aged him somewhat, as he has riot been Increase pound which prevails in the winter sea­ seen since. Exports of fish from the United States son. The total cost of the vessel, equi~­ The animal had evidently entered the ment and first year's expenses arc esU­ Bay in pursuit of a school of herring, as have increased JZreatly in the past ten mated to be half of that amount. these little fish are now appearing in their years. From 1921-25 they were valued spring spawning run.-\V. R. S. at $18.000.000 in 1928 at $20,800,000 and * * • in 1929 at $23,500,000. Palatlini Visits Southern Calif. * * * * * * Alex Paladini, head of A. Paladini, C. E. Luby Visits Inc., of San Francisco, was a rccetlt Southern California To Greenlantl far Fi.'lh visitor in Southern California, \Yhere he C. E. Luby, traveling sales represent­ spent several days calling on his manY ative of the Sebastian-Stuart F;sh Com­ Arrangements for an enterprise which friends in the trade. pany of Seattle, \Vas\1.. visited San. F'ra~­ will include British and American inter­ cisco, Los Angeles, and other Cahforma ests, have been completed, and a big * * * factory ship desig"ned to serve British, Nmv Pacldng points, callin.~ on the trade, during the Comptmy early part of the present month. Mr. Germ::in and U. S. purchasers \Vill soon Lubv has been connected with the Sebas­ be Oil her initial trip to Greenland. Hubert V. Sasaki has filed certificate tian.:Stuart Fish Company for several 'J'he vessel involved is a 10,000-ton of doing business at the H. & T. Packing years. steamer which has been purchased at Company, located at 405 Sixth street. FEBRUARY, 1930 53 fresh fish Survey

Conditions Altt~rcd Liule Drning 'Month; Plenty of Sole

Taking fishing conditions, as relative flEN lo the fresh and frozen tm~rkets, on the \Vest Coast from the north to the south, in general, there has been no .great change during the past month. Mexican sea bass has continued to dominate the Southern California market, as it was expected to do, and excellent catches of sole by the San Francisco producers has encouraged the fresh fillet trade. For Southern California, Mexican sea ')98 CLAY STREET TELEPHONE bass or totuava has been the mainStay, SAN J:"RANCISCO, CALIF. DAvenport with fairly good receipts also of golden bass and rock cod, the latter being sti­ 6azo mulated by rainy weather. Barracuda has been scarce and that available "\vas high of price. Lobster production also has been slo\Y, Arthur Anderson Stm Francisco Columbia Fish Co., Inc. By WALTER R SMITH Stimulated by the ·wonderful catches Producers and of large sole which have been securec;I by River Packers their trawler fleet in the l~st few months, Distributors of several of the San Francisco wholesale Association fish firms arc preparing to enter the Oregon's Finest . iresh fillet field in a big way. · INC. Fresh and Frozen T,vo firms, the San Francisco Inter­ national Fish Company, and the West­ SALMON ern California Fish Company have an­ Largest Fresh Fish Dealers nounced that they are preparing to pack ALSO SALMON their fillet in five, ten and twenty-five on the Columbia River pound containers. They expect to mar­ PACKERS ket the packages under a trade-mark and HOME OFFICE naturally nothing bpt the finest fish 1vill ASTORIA, OREGON go into them. \Vith this new package ASTORIA, OREGON they are preparing to enter the 1viidd1e \Vest field which has been dominated for the past few years by the HaddoCk Y car, 1929-During 1929, 16,257,405 fillet, both fresh and frozen. ' pounds of fishery products, valued at $1,- Tonv Caito of the \Vestern California 996,468, were Iande{! at Seattle by Amer­ Fish Company says that experimental FELLER FISH CO. ican fishing vessels, compared with 17,- shipments have been made to St. Louis, 547,015 pounds, valued at $1,755,959, dur­ Denver, Salt Lake and .Kansas City. ing 1928. This represents a decrease of The reports of the condition in which 7 per cent in quantity and an increase of the fish arrived and the quality of the 14 per cent in value. During W29, fish­ product have been most gratifying. cry products received by Seattle whole­ The present plans provide for the fish sale dealers not including the landings to be packed loose in metal fillet boxes bv halibut 'vessels or products received with the top layer of fish protected by a r;om Alaska and Canada, amounted to sheet of parchment paper. 23,413,678 pounds, Yalued at $2,032,606, For shipping the metal boxes will be compared with 16,226,373 pounds, value packed in wooden containers and cov­ at $1,391,403, for 1928: This is an in­ ered with crushed ice. Protected in this crease of 44 per cent 111 amount and 46 fashion the fillets have everv chance to Wholesale Fish Dealers per cent in value. (Crmtilllud 011 Page 56) Wholesale and Retail

NORTH PACIFIC LANDINGS December, 1929-Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin No. 859 shows that during December, 1929, 161,300 pounds of fishery products, valued at $8,231, were landed by American fishing vessels at ~Qattle, \Nashington, compared ·with 80,- 0 pounds valued at $4,848, for the same month a year ago. This is an increase of 109 per cent in amount and 70 per cent 111 value. The receipts of Seattle ·wh~lcsale dealers by other than halibut fish1ng vessels, but not including pro­ ducts received from Alaska and Canada ~jlO?untcd to 328,645 poun9s, valued at -;.-1,-31, as compared w1th 4:;0,063 pounds, valued at $42,321, for the same month a LOS ANGBLES Year _ago, 'l'his is a decrease of 27 per cent Ill amount and 50 per cent in value. 54· THE WEST. COAST FISHERIES The Hudson Bay.

Nerv Fishing Grounds in tit~ North to be Opened by Railroacl

With the rapidly approaching date of completion of the railway through Mani­ toba to Hudson llay, 'vhcre harbor ter­ minal facilities abo are being provided, attention of many people i::; directed fLETCHER WIESTANoCO. nortlnvards for business and industnal openings, not the least of which are the commercial fishing poss,bil!ties on both ...... MERCHANDISE BROKERS ...... PHONES bay and inland waters. The raihvay will CABLE ADDRESS CALPACK CODE be operated by the Canadian Ndtional .ARBAR MUTUAL 5277 ARMSBY CODE Railways, a govctnmcnt-owned system, and will be opened for all classes of traf­ fic during next spring, or early summer­ 460 SEATON ST...... ,. """ ....., ""'" LOS ANGELES. CAL the exact date has not been announced yet. The cold waters of the Bay will supply the quality to the fish, and the prairies and mid-western states will provide the J. W. ANDERSON, Mgr_ market. Already, it is stated, several out­ fits are waiting, at advanced points on CODFISH the line, for which freight in limited quan­ WARRENTON DEEP SEA BRAND COD STRIPS tities is accepted, for the day when they DEEP SEA BRAND 2~LB. COD BLOCKS can. cast their nets on the prolific >vater.s BRISTOL BRAND t~LB. COD TABLETS of this inland ocean whose superficial FISHERIES CO. BRISTOL BRAND COD MIDDLES area iS estimated at a total of 576,000 Crabs and Crab Meat square miles. Fletchell' Wiest and Co. Arctic trout and cisco are the most Oldest Crab Shippers in Warrenton LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA abundant fish, the former frequenting the WARRENTON, OREGON Agents northern area of the bay~north of Churchill, that is-and the latter the southern portion. Beluga whales are It would be impossible for one vessel in found in very large number, and commer­ the· space of one short season to do more cial fisheries will doubtless look to some than conduct a superficial examination. Neubay Oyster form of control of these whales for the The Natuml Resources and Develop­ preservation of the edible fish. A com­ ment Department of the Canadian Na­ Company mercial oil, it is said, can be extracted tional Railways at Winnipeg is at present from them, and there are, in addition, the investigating the national resources of the PORT NORRIS, N. J. possibilities for reduction plants that can Hudson Bay region and is ready to lend be studied. · valuable assistance to those interested in SHUCKS AND SHIPS On the west coast, north of Eskimo development. In the opinion of Fred V. THE FRESHEST Point, there is a stretch of coast line, per­ Seibert, Superintendent•. a large and prof~ haps about 200 miles long, protected by itable commercial fishing 'industry will SALT WATER OYSTERS many sheltering islands, and indented by eventually be built up in this region, IN THE WORLD numerous dep bays where the tide rises which includes inland as well as bay fish­ "When you need them, we and falls without any appreciable current, eries. Already one reliable finn has inti­ that ·will make admirable fishing ground. mated its intention to carry on operations have them." Arctic trout abound here. in a semi-commercial way to test out the Fred V. Seibert, with the Department possibilities. FLETCHER, WIEST of the Interior during the early part of The fishing conditions in these waters 1929, anrl now Superintendent of Natural & COMPANY do not lend themselves readily to the op­ 460 Seaton St., Los Angeles, Cal. Resource.: for Manitoba and S-askatche­ erations of the small independent fisher­ wan for the Canadian National Railways, Our Brokers For man, but to those who have the necessary SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA visited several mineral exploration camps equipment and org"anization to carry on along this part of the coast during .the operations in a large way, the investiga­ past summer, and reports Arctic trout to tions made indicate very promising pos­ he very plentifuL At Tavane, where a sibilities. YEARBOOK ON FISHERY mineral porspecting company maintained a ba~e, it >vas the custom to set a fifty­ STATISTICS foot net at high tide and leave it until FILET OF SOLE TROUVILLE During January the Bureau issued its low t!rle, when the amateur fishermen The following recipe for Filet of Sole annual statistical yeanbook on the fisher­ would walk out and often find from 20 to Trouville was developed by Auguste ies of the United States. The title of 30 trout in the meshes of the net, ranging Borel, one of the famous chefs of the this publication is "Fishery Industries of from 6 to 10 pounds in \\'eight. Hollywood vicinity. \\Thy not suggest it the United States, 1928," by R. H. Field~ In 1914, C. D. Nelville, A. R. 1vL Lower to your customer? er. It may be obtained from the Super~ and N. A. Comeau conducted fisheries in­ "Remove thc.'black skin from two fresh intendent of Documents, Government vestigations in the Bay. the report of and thick soles, then divide each of them Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 35 which is available on application to the in two or three parts. Butter a baking cents. The information obtained from Department of Naval Service. dish, sprinkle on the bottom two table­ statistical surveys of the fisheries of the On the question of the fishinrr indus­ spoons of chopped onions, then place the United States is published in Part II try which may be developed at Churchill. pieces of sole. Season weii and cover with I-I. S. .T ohnson, \\T estern lvfanager of either c=der or -white wine. Set --the dish of this report, which includes all the B0oth FisheriPs, is quoted by an inter­ on a brisk fire, let it boil a fe1v minutes, detailed statistical information which has viewer as saying that it is likely that a then remove the fish, arranging it on a become available during the preceding trawler will be put on the Bav next sum­ platter. Place in a \Varm oven. Now re­ year, together with such summarized mer hy the Dcnartment of Fisheries al duce the fish stock quickly. thickening it statements and interpretations of those Ottawa. He pnints out. however, that with a few tablespoons of sweet butter or statistics as are deemed significant and the resources of the Hudson Bav have knended butter (kneaded butter is equal useful. These statistics should be espe­ not yet been investiP"~ted. nnrl that any portions of butter and flour worked tc­ cially interesting to those in {he fisherY work done durintr 19.10 will be more in gether). Pour over the fish, then .sprinkle industries and related industries, as ;,vell ·-be nature of inquiry than anything else. entire fish with chopped parsley." as to the economist and student. FEBRUARY, 1930 55

NEW JERSEY CLAMS NEW ENGLAND

J. R. Burl~e Collier H. Buffington South Jersey hard clammers are ex­ Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulle­ periencing one of the hardest winters tin No. 858 shows that during Decem­ that they have ever known, as Quahogs ber, 1929, vessels landed 18,791,972 pounds seem to be almost extinct on the grounds of fishery products, valued al $1,131,231, ,.,..here they formerly abounded and gave at Boston, Gloucester, and Portland. 'f'his Gold work for hundreds of men during the amount included 1,207,572 pounds of salt winter months. 'The more hardy clam- fish, valued at $45,650. Of the total land­ 01ers who go out into the Delaware Bay ings 76 per cent were landed at Boston, Beach Packing after claims are finding less clams than 21 per cent at Gloucester, and 3 per ever, but the market is firm so they still cent at Portland. Haddock continued to Company can manage to make ends meet. be the leading item and accounted for 54 per cent of the total; pollock ranked second, with 11 per cent; cod, third, with Wholesale Distributors of CANNIBALS? 9 per cent; hake, fourth, also with per 9 FRESH SALMON, HALIBUT. "Are the fish biting?" centj and herring, fifth, ·with 7 per cent. The total landings during December de­ BLACK COD, LING COD, 11 ! don't know," replied the weary creased 12 per cent in amount and in­ angler. "If they are, they're biting each creased 39 per cent in value as compared ROCK COD AND SMELTS other." with the same month a year ago. Landings by line-trawl vessels during Rush Orders to Our Eurelw, December accounted for 22 per cent of the Clllifornia, Branch total landings, and these made by large otter and large V-D trawl vessels (91 net tons capacity or more) accounted for Telephone 612 SEAMAID 38 per cent. Fish taken from Georges Bank during the month accounted for 25 per cent of --- fiLLETS the landings at these ports. South Chan­ nel grounds were second in importance, "A -Treat to Eat-Jflitlt the accounting for 23 per cent of the land­ Oakland Fish Company Freshness of the Sea" ings. WHOLESALE Total landings of fishery products at Fresh, Salt, Dried these ports during 1929 amounted to 327,- Note: We buy llnrrncudn, Yellowtnil, Sea Bnii.S, Bonito, Jewfish for snit, Producers tAM.A.l)) 096,327 pounds, valued at $13,051,704, quote us prices per ton. S compared with 277,981,691 pounds, valued 505 Washington Street FILLETS at $10,849,145, for 1928, an increase of Oakland, California IS per cent in amount and 20 per cent in value. Among the landings of fresh fish dur­ ...u .... ing 1929, haddock shows an increase of 21 per cent, hake 43 per cent, pollock 32 Company per cent, cusk 48 per ccn t, mackerel 55 FISH, SHRIMP, OYSTERS, rler cent, flounders 4 per cent, swordfish CRABS, TURTLE, ETC. 81 per cent, and herring 47 per cent, as 501~527 Napoleon Avenue New Orleans, Ln. compared with the landings in 1928, while Orders cod decreased 15 per cent and halibut 2G 'tinite~o Any Part of the per cent. J2==~~ FRESH FISH SALT FISH SMOKED FISH SHELL FISH RED CROSS BRAND­ We begin New Y ark Count Oysters shipping We operate a fleet of new fast oystell.'s on delivery trucks--your orders delivered on time and in first October ~first class condition. Standing or­ ders filled promptly as well as every yeu Special Orders. Los Angeles Fish and Oyster Company Salmon, Shad, Crabs PRODUCERS AND and DISTRIBUTORS SUPER-QUALITY Canned Crab-Meat SEAFOOD Exduslve Dealers of BANDON SPECKLED TROUT Los Angeles, Calif. Your Business Solicited 739 Kohler Street Prices Quoted on Request V Andike 2084 San Pedro, Calif. 1\Iunicipnl Fish Wharf Coast Fisheries Phone San Pedro 520 REEDSPORT OREGON 56 THE WEST COAST FISHERlE

FROZEN AND CURED STOCKS

United States-According to statistics collected by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and published by the Bureau of Fisheries in Statistical Bulletin No KOULOURlS~ 863, the cold storage holdings of froze~ fish on January 15, 1920, totaled 62,427 ~ 864 pounds, compared with 62',374,844 SEA FOOD BROKERS pounds on the same date a year ago and the 5-year average of 55,689,000 pound·, DISTRIBUTORS for January. This is an increase of lcs~ than one-half of 1 per cent over a year· FROZEN CURED ago, and 12 per cent over the 5-year aver­ age. The quantity of fish frozen {luring Fl SH the month ended ] anuary 15 amounted to 4,516,905 pounds. VANDIK£ ~ Comparison of the holdings on Janu~ ary 15 with normal holdings (5-year av­ fOURTH ST. erage) of the more important species shows the fo!1owing increases and de- creases in percentage: · and more a factor in the San Francisco Increases market. A whole carload shipment of Bluefish ...... 5 this fish was received the first week of Butterfish ...... 133 SANITARY this month by A. Paladini, Inc. There has been at least one delivery, by truck, OYSTER CO. of fish brought through from Calexico. ~r~:~~~~~:::::::::::::::::::::::::: lli Eureka Halibut ...... 1 Planters and Packers of Fishing activities at this port are still :Mackerel ...... , ...... 28 Delaware Bay Oysters slo\v and probably will continue that Scup ...... 132 way until February 15 on which date Shellfish ...... 23 Quality and Service Guaranteed the halibut season opens. Receipts thus Sturgeon and spoonbill cat...... 28 PORT NORRIS, NEW JERSEY far consist mostly of black cod, smelt W cakfish ...... 15 and crab. \Vhiting ...... 18 Pittsburg . Decrease's Receipts of fi'sh are still very small. Cisco (tullibee) ...... 75 FRESH FISH SURVEY Herring, sea ...... , ...... 20 (Coutimud from Page 53) The shad have not yet appeared in the river though after the present fine Lake trout ...... 9 arrive at their destination in as fine weather conditions, local fishermen ex· Pike (inclu_ding pickerel, jacks and shape as they leave the packing table. pect that they ·will appear most any day. yellO\v jack) ...... 67 "Joe" Alioto, president of the San Salmon and striped bass catches are very Sablefish ...... 11 Francisco International, is enthusiastic light. Shad and shad roe ...... 22 over the project and claims that Cali­ Smelts ...... , ...... 39 Sacramento and Stockton fornia dealers will soon insist on receiv­ Squid ...... 14 ing their fillet packed in this modern rrhe same conditions prevail at these Beginning on January 15 1930 the fashion. points as at Pittsburg. Fine weather holdings of haddock fillets, as' well ds the The decision of these companies to hut very little fish. quantities of haddock fillets frozen are enter the fresh fillet field means that Santa Cruz shown in the regular releases of bulle­ eventually we will have a package fish The local fish· such as rock cod, smelt tins on the cold stgrage holdings of fish. industry centered in San Francisco, as and mackerel have been fairly plentiful. Stocks of cured herring in cold storage there is no doubt but that the other San on January 15, 1930, amounted to 17,520,M Francisco wholesalers will also seek a Monterey 056 pounds, compared wi~h 19,439,346 new outlet for their fillets. \Vith the abalone season closed, activ­ pounds for the same date a year ago, Undoubtedly these firms will meet ities on the lviunicipal \Vharf arc more representing a decrease of 10 per cent. with severe competition in their new en­ or less at a standstill. Local fish arc in Stocks of mild cured salmon amounted deavor as they are stepping into a field fair supply. to 4,285,755 pounds, compared with· 4,­ to which fish is shipped from every fish­ ;219,251 pounds for the same date a year ing center in the country (the Middle Nclwlcm Hay, Ore. ago, representing an increase of 2 per \Vest). The quality of the merchandise cent. they w:ll be offering- is unquestionable From \Vheeler, Ore., H. Vl. Klein, and with proper sales pressure behind it manager of the Nehalem Bay Fish Com­ Canada-The report of the Canadian they have no doubt but that they will be pany, writes (Jan. 31) th2t the cold spell Department of Trade and Commerce· able to get their share and more of the has moderated and more fishermen are shows that on January 1, 1930, fish stocks business in that section. on the job, but that the supply of steel­ in Canada totaled 20,673,942 pounds of \Vith the advent of better weather heads is limited. Fewer steelheads are fresh frozen and 5,861,851 pounds of other conditions the receipts of fish at this running than in previous years. The fish in cold storage. Compared with the and near-by ports have increased con­ price remains steady. holdings on January 1, last year, the siderablv. The cold spell raised havoc -..vith all holdings of fresh frozen fish increased 2 The San Francisco wholesalers' Par­ plumbing in ,. boats and buildings, con­ per cent, and when compared with the anzella fleet still continues tO bring in sequently there will be more repair holdings on December 1, 1929, they de~ good catches of large round-nosed sole. work than formerly. The fishing sea­ creased 12 per cent. Other fish in cold F. Farina, Secretary of the Crab son will be on for another month, after storage decreased 19 per cent when com­ Fishermen's Association, reports that which the fishermen and dealers will be pared with the same month last year, receipts of crab have increased and that kept busy getting ready for the next sea­ and 7 per cent from last month. there have been fair catches of rock cod son >vhich opens August 1. Stocks in cold storage consisted of 1,- made by the fishermen of the local asso­ 131,169 pounds of cod, 2,200,509 pound_s ciation. TO STUDY CATCHES of haddqck, 2,746,216 pounds of hall­ Herring are appearing in San Fran­ but, 6,394,671 pounds of herring, 582.095 cisco Bay and the bait hoats are busy. Five boats for fish collection service pounds of mackerel, 6,842,189 pounds of The spring run of herring has been ex­ on the east coast of Nova Scotia have salmon, 686,295 pounds of whitefish, and tr~ordinarily large for the last few years. heen chartered by the Department of 5,952,649 pounds of all other varieties. It is too early yet to predict whether or Fisheries from the Nova Scotia ShipM During the month of December, 2,881,- not the run this year wi11 continue as ping Company, Halifax. The contract 116 pounds of fish \Vere frozen as com­ large as those of previous years. price is $1,975 a month for each boat for pared with 4,660,959 pounds frozen dur­ Mexican sea bass is becoming more about five or six months service. ing the month of November. FEBRUARY, 1930 57

as a member of the board, the remaining tensive fishing operations. The New Adopts By-laws positions being left open for the time England. 'Fish -company ·Will therefore being, to be filled at some later date. control three additio'nal fish receiving It is understood that the Columbia River stations besides . the fishing plants at Oregon and Washington Fisl1eries Assn. packers will be urged to join the associa­ Taylor Sands, Columbia Fishing com­ Trustees Meet tion and in this event the seventh trus­ pany and Farrell Sands. Three excellent tee will be allocated to them as their rep­ fish traps arc also included, besides a The adoption of by-laws and selection resentative. large block of stock in lviiller Sands of the name of "Oregon and \Vashington Following adoption of the by-laws it seining grounds near Altoona, Wash. Fisheries Association" marked the me~t­ was decided to hold another meeting at The Pillar Rock laGel goes with the ing of the trustees of the new assocm­ an early date, probably February 7 to transfer. tion at Portland, Ore., on January 11, 14. The new company will continue to according to reports. . employ all late employes of the Pillar The board of trustees was mcreased A resolutio-n ·was passed by the trus­ Rock Packing company, some of whom tees approving in principle the districting from five to seven members and C~ad have been connected with the concern 1vfercdith, manager of the Newport Ftsh plan for the canning of salmon. 'I'he res­ for over 35 years. 1vf. J. Fisher, resi­ Company of Newport, Ore., was elected olution urged the establishment of such dent manager and superintendent at Pil- districts for each fishing area and the requirement that salmon caught in that Washington State Hoalth district, if to be canned, be processed within the district. Certificate No. 3 John Hannula Jr. NEW ENGLA.l\ID BUYS J.J.BRENNER PILLAR ROCK Fish Company OYSTER CO. Announcement is made of the sale of Producers and Distributors Established 1893 the Pillar Rock Packing company by Everding & Farrell to the New England Throughout the Year of Fish company of Boston. Growers and Wholesale Shippers This announcement is a mere picture Steelhead, Chinook Silver, of the of the transfer of the physical assets of the pioneer salmon canning company of and Salmon FAMOUS FRESH OLYMPIA the Columbia river. FOOT OF D STREET OYSTERS AND CLAMS The transfer means much more than the mere changing of ownership of the Telephone 530 502 Fourth Ave, West Pillar Rock Packing company. It means ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON in addition the formal entrance of the giant New England Fish company into the Columbia river packing business, al­ though it has been for a s'hort time rep­ E. J. WHITMAN:, President resented in the fresh fish trade by the operation of a receiving station at Ka­ When You Are in Doubt lama. The transfer means that not only is one of the biggest operating fish com­ Haines Oyster Co. panies in the world going into the busi­ Get in touch with the Est. 1892 ness On the Columbia on a large scale, but that the fresh fish trade will be Largest shippers of Shellfish greatly developed owing to its almost · on the Pacific Coast unlimited capital. WHIZ FISH CO. The Pillar Rock Packing company has Puget Sound Scallops, Shrimpmeat, WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Crabmeat, Olympia Oysters, Rock Point been operated by Everding & Farrell for· Oysters, Deep Sea Crabs, CID.lns 53 years. The plant was built by the FRESH, SALT AND and All Other Shellfish company in which ·was at that time also SMOKED FISH Quality Altvays interested John HarrinP"ton and the late John Kiernan. Mr. Harrington dis­ Pier No. 12 posed of his interest to Robert S. Far­ Always on the Job Telephone Main 6800 rell, who has been the manager of the plant until today. John Kiernan sold his Whi:z: Dock, Seattle, Washington SEATTLE, WASHINGTON interest in 1881. The transfer not only included the Pillar Rock plant, but ex~

.. PACKED WITH THE WIGGLE IN ITS TAIL.. 58 THE WEST COAST FISH.ERIES ~~~~~~~~~··· --Karl I. Slffermnn Earl N. Ohmer SAN JUAN FISHING ·. & PACKING CO., Inc. I i Wholesale Dealers, Packers ·. and Shippers of Alaskan Fresh, F,·

Company's If It's Sea Food-See Us HIGHEST QUALITY RIPLEY FISH ~ I> COMPANY, INC. DEPENDABLE QUALITY ... Pier No. 9 ·· .. SHRIMP MEAT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON PACKERS OF ·.•. · and her of the state board of fish commis­ •••••• sioners and will continue to give his Fresh and Frozen CRABMEAT service to his loved industry. He will, however, with his family, spend consid­ ' erable time in traveling abroad. •••• Can Be Procured from HALIBUT ·... the following Seattle WILLAPA OYSTERS RIPE ••• Fish Dealers: SALMON Willapa harbOr's oyster harvest is now I· San Juan Fiahing & Packing Co. getting under way, accorditig to advices Palace Fish and Oyster Co. from Aberdeen, Wash. The W.illapa Oys­ I .. Seba.stian-Stua;t Fi11h Co. ter Farms and Bay Point Oyster Com­ Edwin Ripley & Son MILD CURED .A.merlcan Sea Food Co pany, two of the largest operators expect Dreasel-Collina fish Co, a rich season. Thev figure the yield for New England Fish Co. 1930 at more than $¥1,000,000. They have li Booth Fisheries Co, SALMON Haines Oyster Co, a portion of their 2700-acre holdings Ripley Fish Co. planted to Japanese oysters and expect Sound Fish Co. to seed mor.e this year. Whb: Fish Co. Main Fish Co. CANNED SALMON NEW OYSTER OPENER I Packed by tlte Alaskan Emile Delonde, of New York City, has Glacier Sea Food Co., just obtained from the United· States: Patent Office a patent upon a novel oys­ Seattle, Washington Petersburg, Alaska ter opener, according to Clarence A . O'Brien, \\l"ashington patent attorney, U.S. A. P. 0. Box.1001, Seattle, Wash. The implement is constructed with a l universal joint to facilitate easy manipu­ lation in opening oysters. A support and .. back are also provided so that the device .. may function with greater rapidity. · '!ACOMA FI!SH AND PACKING COMPANY Edwin Ripley & Son. I WHOLESALE SHIPPERS OF QUAMMA NAMES GOLF COURSE I Wholeanlc Shippers of I -FRESH, FROZEN AND SMOKED FISH FRESH, FROZEN and 81\IOlillD FISH Specializing In Puget S~und Salmon Martin Quamma, assistant manager of I 1107 DOCK STREET the Van Camp Sea Food Company, Inc., 1899-PIONEER DEALER-1930 Telephone Main 1061 plant at San Diego, Calif., has been TACOMA, WASHINGTON awarded a prize of $25.00 and one year's Pier 12, Seattle, Washington free permit to play on the course of a new golf project in that city for submit­ lar Rock1 has been with the company 14 years. ting the most suitable name for the TO AID FISHERMEN ··~ Robert S. Farrell will be connected ~_9urse, "Emerald Hills." ·with fhe buyers in an advisory capacity. The British government is to offcl' Headquarters for the coast of the :~{ New England Fish company are at Van­ A commission \\'aS recently appointed loans to the extent of 50,000 pounds at <··. couver, B. C., under management of A. to investigate the oyster industry and low interest to assist the Scottish fisher· ._>. L. Hager, vice-president. He officially suggest some means for its stimulation, men to replace the nets which they lost dosed the deal. so that some action may be taken by in the November gales at the East An· Robert S. Farrell is at present a mcm- the next Dela\yare Legislature. glian herring fishing. FEBRUARY, 1930 59

made to revolve on a horizontal axis in Electric fish Screens the direction of the stream flow, the motive power being furnished by paddle or bucket wheel placed in the ditch be­ Metluuls and llll!ans of Conserving low the screen; and the necessary by- Fish Life ( Continued on Page 61) . The 70th Congress passed an act (Pub. No. 338-7Uth Congcess S. 3437), the purpose being to provide for the conservation of fish life upon the irriga­ NEWPORT tion projects of the U. S. Government. Nehalem Bay The U. S. Bureau of Fisheries ap­ FISH CO.. pointed Shirley Baker, consulting engi­ Crad Meredith, Manager neer, San Francisco, to conduct the in­ vestigation. U. B. Gilroy was named Fish Co. WHOLESALE SHIPPERS bv 11r. Baker to assist him in the work. H. W. KLEIN, Mgr. Of Salmon, Halibut, Ling Upon June 29, 1928, Hon. Henry 0'1Ial­ Cod and Snappers ley, Commissioner of Fisheries, called a WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS general meetin_g- of the fishing interests NEWPORT OREGON of the N orthwcst at Portland, Oregon, Chinooks, Steelheads, Silvers outlined the nature and scope of the pro­ and Bright Fall Salmon posed work and set the investigation in motion. Let Us Qrwte You The work of the investigation has been continued ·without interruption un­ WHEELER OREGON der a second appropriation of $25,000. SUNSET FISH The territory embraced by the investiga­ tion has been extensive and the scope of the work considerably broadened during co.. the last year, according to a report of the engineers to Commissioner O'Mal­ Wholesale Distributors of ley. This report sets forth the progress of TINT'S fiSH Nehalem Bay Chinook, the investigatiOn from the date of the Silverside, Bright Falls Preliminarv Report November 30, 1928, and Steelheads to December 31, 1929. MARKET The earlv stages of the investigation consisted Of field examinations of the Wholesale Distributors of Prices on Request existing tvpes of fish screens and fish Columbia River Salmon, ladders ai1d the studv of all available data on the problem. Carp, Suckers and Smelts WHEELER OREGON ~ Acti11ities of 1929 Also all kinds of Fresh, Salt, Smoked (1) the construction and operation of and Pickled Fish, Oysters, Clams, six electric fish screens on waterways of Crabs, Etc, major importance and extensive experi­ mentation with these devices for the 206 YAMHILL STREET purpose of simplifying and improving Telephone Atwater 3511 Telephone Broadway 3690 J. F. Meehan, Manager them; (2) the installation of a mechani­ PORTLAND, OREGON cal revolving fish screen; (3) the in­ PORTLAND FliSH CO. stallation of a large concrete fish ladder; ( 4) studies of models and designs of fish -- SALMON AND HALIBUT-Also Fresh, ladders and the specification of required Smoked, Pickled Fish and Oysters AU Orders Filled at the Lowest fish ladders at a number of locations; M

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SANTA BARBARA RATE RAISE ASKED MONTEREY The United States Fisheries Associa­ tion has issued an announcement _that the Wire for Our Quotations railroads have petitioned the interstate I. TAKIGAWA, Pres., Mgr. commerce commission to allow them to place generally in immediate effect the PACIFIC MUTUAL S. LARCO FISH $12.50 refrigerator car rental charge. They wish to apply the charge on all sea food, FISH CO., Inc. not only on fresh fish, but on frozen fish, Est. Since 1902 COMPANY oysters, shrimp and crabs, when shipped Er;tabllshcd 1870 in refrigerator cars, according to George Producers and Distributors of H Dieter, president of the association. FRESH FISH We ship everywhere-all kinds of The hearing of the petition has been California Sea-Foods. Special at­ set for February 26 at Washington, D. We Ship Anywhere tention given to standing orders. C. Should the railroads win this case tile Specializing SHELL and SLICED SERVICE PAR-EXCELLENCE application of the $12.50 charge on every ABALONE, MILD-CURED SAL­ refrigerator car will cost the industry MON, SARDINES and ANCHOVIES Specializing in Lobsters millions annually, it is asserted by the in brine or dry salted. Live and Cooked association, which is raising a fund to fight the case. Telephone 368-P. 0. BDx T 214 STATE STREET Cable Address "Pac-Mutual" SANTA BARBARA, CAUFORNIA 23-25-27 MUNICIPAL WHARF OYSTERS THRIVE IN COLD MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA Observations made during the present severe cold weather indicate that the Japanese oysters planted in \Villapa WILMINGTON bay, \\lash., will suffer few, if any, ca­ T. Hama.guchi, Prop. Market Phone, 196 sualties as the result of the low tem­ Residence Phone, 2372 peratures. The oysters came from beds in the Try the •.•• northern part of Japan and, according Central California Fish Co- to George \\!ilson, well-known \Villapa Wholesale Fish Dealers of every variety 4 X Fisheries harbor oyster man, they are withstand­ of Fresh Fish caught in Monterey Bay in_g the freezing temperatures much bet­ CITY WHARF, MONTEREY, CAUF. ter than the little native oysters and as Wholesale Distributors by well, or better, than the transQlanled easterns. NEWPORT BEACH Experience Some years ago L. L. Bush of Bay Center experimented as to the effect of freezing temperatures upon native, cast­ Producers Quote Us On All Kinch ern and Japanese ovsters, and frorn his J.P. Horman Fish Co. of Fresh Fish and Specialties observations placed -the Japanese ovsters WHOLESALERS midway between the natives ana the easterns as to the resistance and hardi­ Smelts Notv in Season 224-6 W. Anaheim ness shown. The Japanese oysters he used in this test, however, were grown Telephone 350-W WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA from seed from more southern Japanese NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. waters. The oyster companies of the harbor are now preparing for a big spring plant­ ing of "Japanese seed" during the last MONTEREY week of February. According to G. T. FRANK SUTTORA Mogan, the first shipment of 10,000 cases of these young oysters is expected to ar­ FISH CO. rive on the President Jefferson on Feb­ Wholesale Shippers ruary 24. This shipment is consignetl Now Shipping Smelt If you want fresh fish to the Bay Point Oyster Farms ·and will be planted on the beds near Toke­ Telephone 269 or 134 that's fresh- wire or land and Biuceport. Other shipments NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. aggregating 2000 cases will follow, he write us. Shipping fresh says. fish is our business. . VVhen the planting was made last No­ pared with the landings for the season of vember ,the oyster men found that the 1928, which amounted to 55,930,992 "set" of 1929 •vas so thick that the spat pounds, the above is a decrease of 1 per THE ran about 20,000 to the case. The seed cent. Of the total, 46,346,685 pounds, or to be planted next month is expected to 84 per cel1t, were landed by American HIGASHI FISH be of this same quality. vessels, and 8,959,530 pounds, or 16 per cent, by Canadian vessels. co. HALIBUT FISHERY, 1929 Landings of halibut during 1929 at T~lephone 857 Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin Prince Rupert, British Columbia, ac~ 859 shows that during the halihut season counted for 28,583,009 pounds, or 52 per MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA of 1929 (February 15 to November 15), cent of the total landings; Seattle, 12,359,- 55,.106,215 pounds of halibut were landed 170 pounds, or 22 per ceut; and ports in -- at the various North Pacific ports. Com- Alaska 13,338,646 pounds, or 24 per cent. FEBRUARY, 1930 61

ELECTIUC FISH SCREENS tion the Bureau of Fisheries has de­ SAN PEDRO (Continued frum Page 59) signed and is now completing the in­ ass channel for return of the fish to the stallation of a revolving screen of thi!; -- type on the Atanum Ditch of the U. S. P "·111 stream. The economic field of ap- :rn..tication for screens o f t I11s · type seems Indian Irrigation Service. This ditch the small moderately large di­ di\'erts \Vater from Atanum Creek, about fo be to 17 miles southwest of Yakima, Washing­ versions. As part of the work of this invcstiga- ton. The capacity of the ditch is about SO sec. ft. and for a short part of the ir­ rigation season this flow is attained. SAN L'U!S OBISPO From this maximum value the flow sub­ sides to a minimum of about 5 sec. ft. at the end of the irrigation season. &stabUsbed 1918 Telephone 884 Atanum Creek is frequented by both salmon and steelhead, and for a number SAN L'U!S FISH CO. of years, there has been heavy loss of Wholesale Shippers o£ Fresh Fish, Shell downstream rnigrants into this un­ Fish and Abalone in the shell and sliced screened ditch. The design of this screen takes into 581 DANA STREET P. 0. BOX 305 consideration the possibility of an ulti­ SAN LUIS OBISPO, CAUF, mate enlargement of the ditch to ac­ We sTrip standing orders comodate an additional \Vater supply all over Texas, California, SACRAMENTO now under investigation, and the large Arizona, Nevada, Netv ]Jlexico, fluctuation in flow encountered during a Etc. season's operation. The supporting NOTE: We are large buyers of all Telephone Main 475 Est. 1880 structure is a reinforced concrete box, 16 ft. wide by 24 ft. long and 4 ft. -deep. ldnds of Fresh Fish and Special~ TONG SUNG CO. The concrete floor is 6 inches thick, the ties. Please quote us on volume. walls 8 inches thick. A central pier of Producers, Packers and Shippers of Commission Merchants and Oldest the same height and thickness as the All Kinds of Fish Shippers in Northern California walis divides fhe box longitudinally into Branch: Reno, Nevada two compartments. Each compartment FRESH, SALTED and 916 3RD ST. SACRAMENTO, CAL. houses a 3.5 ft. dia. revolving screen and SMOKED FISH a 5 ft. dia. paddle wheel. At times of LOBSTERS, OYSTERS, low flow one compartment may be shut CRABS off by means of flash boards and all the SAN PEDRO flo-w directed through the other section. Topographic conditions necessitated the Standard Fisheries location of the screen about 1000 ft. be­ Company low the head of the ditch. A by-pass ESTABLISHED 1897 American channel, equipped with flash boards for Phone Sa.n Pedro 5 regulating flow, leads from a point just Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro above the screen to the nearby creek. fi,sheries, Inc. Because this ditch diverts water from early spring "Until late fall it has been necessary to construct the screen during Purveyors to the severe winter weather. We Handle Nothing But 1vir. VV. R. Coleman, Superintendent Discri1ninating of Fish Screens and Fish Ladders for the Best the Ofegon Game Commission has as­ At Lowest -Prices. Good, Fresh Fish Products of all kinds, at all times. EIE38 sisted in design and construction. The Send us your standing order. entire cost of the installation has been borne by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. "If It Swims, We Have It" Not the Largest, but Electric Screens tlre Best Early in the investigation the possi­ Fresh, Salt or Smoked Fish bilities of the electric screen were real­ Pacific Coast ized. In the summer of 1926 Prof. F. 0. McMillan, Department of Electrical En­ EIE38 Fish Co. gineering, Oregon Agricultural College, and NAKAHARA COMPANY and J. E. Yates, Engineer, Pacific Power Ship Chandlery and Supplies MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF and Light Co., Portland, Oregon, con­ Phones: 907 and 908 ducted experiments on the electric fish P. 0. Box 267 SAN PEDRO CALIFORNIA screen at Bonneville Hatchery, Oregon. MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF In the spring of 1928 Messrs. 1vic1Iillan SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA and Yates installed for the Calitorma Oregon Power Company an electric fish !"creen in the tail race of the power plant Y. KAMIYA, Mgr. Vincent Di Meglio Annie Di Meglio at Gold Ray on the Rogue River in Ore­ Jack Cuomo gon. In September 1928 H. T. Burkey of Pasadena, California, holder of U. S. CENTRAL Patents on the electric fish screen, re­ OCEAN FISH quested opportunity to show his device, FISH CO. which was afforded him at the Delph COMPANY Established 1910 Creek Hatchery, Oregon, where he set Est. 1897 up a small installation for a demonstra­ Shippers of All Kinds of tion. Though made in still water and DISTRIBUTORS Southern California against trout this demonstration was Fresh FisiJ sufficiently interesting to warrant a large All Kinds Fresh, Salted, scale test under acfual field conditions. Smo~ced and Fislt Specialties Depend on us to supply your wants This installation was made by the U. S. regardless of the quantity. Standing Orders Given Bureau of Fisheries in the Tieton Canal Special Attention MAINTAINING JAPANESE SHIPPING of the U. S. Reclamation Service and DEPARTMENT WIRE FOR OUR QUOTATIONS ''Standing Orders" was operated for a month. Telephones: Mnrltet Phone 229 CARE MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF The results of these experiments seem Residence Phone 1596 Tel. 834 to just•ify making permanent installa... MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF SAN PEDRO, CAUF. tions, and plans \Yere adopted by the SAN PEDRO, CALIF. U. S. Bureau of Fisheries to place elec- 62 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES;

tric fish screens of this type at the fol­ LOS ANGELES SAN PEDRO lowing locations: (1) Sunnyside Canal, .. Yakima Project, U. S. Reclamation Cable Address, "1J1utu.al" Service: (2) Tieton Canal, Tieton Pro­ ' ' Bentley's Complete Phrase ject, U. S. Reclamation Service; (3) VVapato Canal, \Vapato Project, U. S. Wred.en Packing Indian Service; and, (4) Intake of Gold Ray Po1vcr Plant, 1California Oregon 6: Provision Co. Power Company. As 1Ir. Burkey had carried this type Extensive Dealers in Fish Meat Mutual fish of screen to its then state of develop­ and Poultry in Los Angeles for ment, be was employed as an expert by the past 30 years. the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries until April 1929, during which ti1ne he designed and Company PRODUCERS AND SHIPPERS KlNDLY constructed the electrical apparatus first used at these locations, and the intial in­ QUOTE DIRECT stallations were in all cases exaclly as Main Plant and Offices: Municipal Fish Wharf, specified by him. A brief description of the features of 129 SOUTH MAIN STREET San Pedro, Calif. the various electric screens and history Phone MUtual 4351 of their operation follows: WHOLESALE FRESH FISH Sunnyside Electric Screen DEALERS 'The Sunnyside Canal, main diversiou of the Yakima Project, U. S. Reclama· IMPORT-EXPORT tion Service, diverts water from the Yakima River, near Yakima, VVashing­ ALL KINDS OF MARINE ton. The capacity of the canal is 1500 PRODUCTS sec. ft. The irrirration season of 1929 ex­ tended from March 15 to October 21. During the greater part of the season the M. H. Isenberg Packers of "canal carried from 1200 to 1500. sec. ft. FORMERLY ZAISER PRODUCE CO, The electric screen is located in the "Pampco" Brand Tempra forebay outside the headgates. At the Wholesale Fish Dealers screen the waterway is 50 fet. wide and SPECIALIZING IN FRESH WATER Fish Cake has an average depth of 7 ft. The screen consists of a curtain of electrodes made FISH up of lenbrths of % in. galvanized chain Geor~e T. Ota, Manager- spaced 15 inches apart and suspended We are the oldest firm In Los Angeles into the water from a supporting cable; handling the Telegroaph ..Mutual" for your fish and a "ground element" of 2Yz inches FRESH WATER FISH TRADE requirements dia. galvanized iron pipe laid flat on the bottom of the channel, approximately 1812 South Central Ave. •. parallel with and 9 ft. upstream from Telephone WEstmore 3263 the curtain of chain electrodes. Gal­ vanized sash weights are attached to the LOS ANGELES, CAUFORNIA STAR FISHERIES chain electrodes to hold them in position Wholesale Distributors of All Kinds against the action of the stream current. of Southern California Sea Foods A heavy shear boom raft, anchored on If you crave Service place your the upstream side of the electrode cur­ requirements with Uli tain protects the lay-out from drift and P. 0, Box 385, San Diego, Calif. provides access to the electrodes. Telephone Main 8105 Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Cal. \i\Tater was admitted to the canal Telephone 2525 M:1rch 15 and upon this date the screen Young's Market ; was electrified. For several days, pend­ ing the installation of Ivfr. Burkey's en­ Company Telephones: 333 and 334 ergizer the screen was operated with •••• common 60-cycle alternating current. . Zankich Bros.!Fish Co. Thereafter and until the installation of Wholesale Fish Division . ESTABLISHED 1911 the motor-generator set onPr;:J.tion was with 60-cyde alternating current, modi­ Los Angeles .··. Wholesale Shippers 1vith a fled by passage through the energizer Reputation and applied to the screen at about 65 Attention, Producers! Quote ( MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF volts. Operation of the energizer with .... SAN PEDRO, CAUF. direct current supplied by the motor­ us fresh fish and specialties generator set be.gan May 27. Through­ .. ··.. out this time trouble was constantly ex­ 410 TOWNE AVE. perienced. 1£\•en with the voltage re­ LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA . duced to 50 or 55 -volts the contact San Pedro Fish Co. points on the energizer's interrupter de­ Phone Metropolitan 6366· Wholesale Dealers and Standing Yice burned out several times, thus de­ Order Shippel'S of All California energizing the screen. Upon June 26th, . Seafoods the use of direct current was abandoned PROMPT and RELIABLE­ ~------~·· "QUICK SERVICE" and operation resumed and continued until the end of the season with alter­ ··••· MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF nating current passed through the ener­ r:""""~~~~~~~"'ii SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA gizer. Even then, for safety it was nec­ C:~~; MINCED ···· ess

screen ·was efficit:nt and the season's op­ A happy feature of the season's op­ LOS ANGELES eration is rerr~nled as a success. eration was the almost complete absence JJ7 a palo Electric Scn!en of kiiling or stunning of fish due to con­ LeSlie M. Kruschke Max Freeman The 'Vapato Canal of the U. S. Indian tact with the electric field. Phone: TUcker 1168 Irrigation Service diverts \Vater from Hi,rh success has attended the onera­ the Yakima River at a point about 3% tion of this screen. It is estimated that, miles upstream from the Sunnyside during the summer, upward of 5000 sal­ Superior Sea food Dam. Capacity of the Canal is 1800 sec. mon and steelhcad attempted to pass ft., and throughout the major portion of through the electric f1eld. Company the irrigation season this huge flow is maintained. Diversion into the canal is 1214 PRODUCE STREET made through six 5.5 ft. by 6.5 ft. gate LOS ANGELES ~_!l was to screen this watCrway against the entrance of upstream migrat­ ing fish and thus divert them in fresh ALSO GEORGE F .. condition, upstream to the fish ladders. GORTON'S "READY TO USE" It was also desired to study the possibi­ CODFISH litv of d;recting fish to some definite WALRUS BRAND GEORGE'S NAYLOR po-int in a channel by means of an elec­ CODFISH MIDDLES tric field. \Vith this latter purpose in view the screen was installed well up in General Sea Food Broker the tail race and diagonally across it. At the upstream end of the screen a fish All Kinds Fresh, Frozen, Salt trap or box of timber construction was Leonard and Cured Fish placed; the object being to seC if the I fish upon coming in contact '\Vith the Fisheries, Ltd.. Telephone TUcJ,cr 4293 electr;fied zone of water would continue to work up along the edge to the un­ Montreal, Que., Canada ROOM 204 elcctrified section of channel occupied by 337 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE the trap. The whole installation was Producers of LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA located a short distance upstream from a foot br:dge across the tail race. This SUPREME BRAND hrirlg-e afforded an excellent viewpoint for the observation oi fish encountering I Haddies, the screen. Due to a submerged rock I Smoked Fillets and ledge the most favorable location for ' Harbor Fish the box could not be utilized.1 After sev­ I Smoked Kippers eral weeks Of operation, during which ' time many fish were stopped by the ' Company electric screen, but Bone were found to enter the trap, further work with the lat­ Order Through Your Wholesale Dealers ter was ahandoned. Jobber Throu~hout the season many people Fresh, Salted, Smoked and had an opportunity to observe hundreds Canned Sea Foods of salmon and steelhead in contact with All Varieties of Shell Fish the electric field. Some of these f1sh and Specialties were :;topped at the weak fring-e of elec­ I Central Fish & Oyster Co. trical effect just downstream from the PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTICE PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTE:-Quote us ground nipe. The m'-!jority would pene­ I We buy all ldnds of Fish, especially on aU Jtinds Fresh Fish and Specialties Carp, Black Cod, Mullet, White Fish, trate the electrified zone for from 5 to Rock Ccd, Halibut, Salmon and 631-633 CENTRAL AVE. 8 ft. where they would break water in Specialties a mighty leap and, turning around, Los Angeles, California Tel. VAndike 3740 swim strongly out of the tail race. A Phones TR 6259, TR 6250 1012-14 S. Central Avenue very few fish were seen to pass through LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA the screen, but this was exceptional. 64 THE WEST COAST FISHERI•s]l SAN D!IEGO South Africa SAN DIEGO ·.

Cape Torvn Awakening to Potentialities ~~~~~~~~~ .. If It Swims ·of the Fisheries ..··. We Have It. South Africa has been slmv in awak­ Van Camp I ening to the golden harvest offered by THE its fishing grounds, but the awakening, now it has come, has been healthy. Organizations > PEOPLE'S FISH There is e\tery practical evidence that economic exploitation is being vigorous­ Producers of COMPANY ly fostered. Except for early work in Supreme Qualily Sea Foods . Producers and Distributors of the opening years of the century by the Cape Marine Biologist, the potentialities LIVE AND COOKED LOBSTERS ALL KINDS OF CALIFORNIA of these >Wtters have received :very little SEA FOODS Tc:~~:as Shipments Made Direct from Special attention to Hotels and scientific attention. Fishing has always San Diego Restaurants been a fairly prosperous industry, but ... Especinlly LOBSTERS-Live and Cooked private enterprise had the field exclu­ WIRE FOR PRICES Fresh, Smoked, Shell and Fresh Water Fish in Season sively to itself. It worked these grounds, 867 Harbor Street ·.. ... Telephones: Main •1158 and 4159 -..vhich had been happened upon more or 869 Harbor St. P. 0. Box 1205 less accidentally, and ·within the strict SAN DIEGO, CALIF. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. limits of the immediate needs and re­ sources of the industry, accumulating an amount of data likely to prove of value :;~~~~~; .•. H. DAKIS, Prop. Estab. 1914 in further development. But to all in­ LAWRENCE OUVER~ Manager <_ tents and purposes, the scientific side of SAN DIEGO the fisheries was ignored until the year AMERICAN 1920, when the Union Government re­ instituted the Fishery Survey, which FISHERIES CO. ...· FISHERIES formerly engaged the attention of the Established 1908 Cape Government. The results since Wholesale Dealers in and Shippers of COMPANY .··•··••••• achieved by- the Survey have been in SALTED, DRIED and PICKLED Direct Wholesale Dealer in Fresh many respects remarkable, and they have FISH Sea-Food led to the appointment of a Director of Salted Barracuda, Yellowtail I the Union Fisheries and 1viarine Bio­ and Jewfish- Lobsters in OUR SPECIALTY-LIVE AND COOKED Season-Live and Coolted --, LOBSTER5-SHIPPED EVERYWHERE logical Survey,. and future results should be even more valuable, according to .the We specialize in Fish Fertilizer and Fish Oil Wire U.s for Quotation-We Respect "Fish Trades Gazette." Standing Orders Get Our Prices in Car-lots Before .. The annual report of the Director is Contracting Elsewhere Telephone: Main 9698 an interesting document. The basic fact WIRE FOR QUOTATIONS _·s HARBOR STREET BOX 77 is that there has been revealed that 841 HARBOR STREET ~ SAN DIEGO, CALIF. "there is a potential fishing area in South SAN DIEGO, CALIF. African seas, in extent about 60,000 square miles, which contains an enor­ mous source of wealth and food supply." . Plotting out this huge area, ascertaining STELLAR FISH CO • JOHN N. VITALICH, Manager the most fruitful fishing grounds it em­ • Established 1915 braces, classifying the habitats of the Wholesale Fresh Fislr. and Lobsters different varieties of fish, tracing their K. 0. SHIMA, Manager < migrations, testing and recording saline Specializing to the Japanese Trade--fully ' CHESAPEAKE FISH understanding quality of Fresh Fish density and its influences on various desired especially Tuna, Yellowtail, COMPANY species, investigating food problems and Barracuda, Mullets, Seahass, Etc. ••••• the thousand-and-one fields of research B2$ HARBOR ST., SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Wholesale Dealers in all kinds of opened up by the study of the wonders CALIFORNIA FRESH AND of the denizens of the ocean, provide a SALTED FISH general field "for scientific investigation Prompt and Honest Specializing which must go on for generations. And the outcome of this work can only be '.try '.tHE UNION FISH LOBSTERS to the advantage and prosperity of the COMPANY Union. Established 1906 Live and Cooked Direct Wholesale Deniers in Fresh and Enormous Fishing Areas Salt Fish 849 Harbor Street The report records that since 1920, al­ LOBSTERS--Live and Cooked 825 HARBOR STREET SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA most without intCrruption, "active survey San Diego, Calif. operations have been in progress, result­ ~--·- ing in the discovery of enormous fishing areas just north of Capetown, which arc much perturbation in the ranks of an im­ now being exploited by the Cape trawl­ portant industry. The Fishery SurveY ers. Fishing grounds have also been dis­ sought out the reason, and to-day these CHARLES A. covered off the mouth of the Orange migrations are no longer a baffiing mys~­ River, rich in soles and other fish, while tery, with the result that the interested in South-West African waters a large industries know more or less what to ex-­ LANDERS area was surveyed last year which is pect and where and when to expect it. stated by competent authOrities to be A phenomenon which has aroused SEA FOOD BROKER richer than any of the Norwegian fish­ much curiosity at different times is tl:e ing grounds." When the "\Vealth of the wholesale mortality of fish in WalviS Serving the San Diego Norwegian fishing industry is remem­ Bay. On some occasions this has bee.n Trade in Their Out­ bered, this statement must conjure up a due to submarine eruptjQns, but periodi- side Fish Requirements rich vision of potentialities. Not so long cally the fish in the Bay die by the hund· ago we were wont to speculate on the red thousand and their bodies arc Producers Accounts Solicited reasons fol' the mysterious disappearance washed ashore in dense masses. !v(r.-_~-- of the famous shoals of Cape snack for 1viarchand, Technical Assistant to the MUNlCIPAL PIER BLDG. a period. In recent years the disappear­ Director, investigated the phenomenon, SAN DIEGO, CALIF. ance of the cravfish from some of its and he has established the fact that thf former greatly-favored haunts caused mortality is associated with the fall o ;.,Iii FEBRUARY, 1930 65 heaVY rains inland. The flooding o~ the there is an area of the ocean which is working at a pressure of 210 lbs. Two rivers washes down a heavy depostt of one vast piscatorial cemetery. auxiliary boilers, installed at the fore end poisonous matter, which first affects bot­ of the engine-room, supply steam for the A Great Fish Cenu~tery •Om-feeding fish such as soles, but rapid­ deck machinery, and also for the -whal­ Jv contaminates all. depths, giving ~is~ to For a distance of 200 miles there is ing plant. The factory is in the 'hveen ,\ridespread mortahty from asphyxmtwn. not a vestige of animal or vegetable life deck, and in it are huge boilers, tanks, 'fhe often coincidental appearance of in the ocean. But the trawl will bring pumps and various appliances for deal­ blood-red areas in the sea in the same up "fish bones by the bucketful," which ing with the entire carcase, so that noth­ locality is also productive of mortality, proves that any fish migrating into this ing is -..vastcd. preceded by an extraordinary lethargy area die. The phenomenon is due to the presence in the bed of the ocean of depo­ Durban is having a record whaling on the part of the fish. This, 1vir. Mar­ season, and about 40 to 50 whaleS arc thaild found, was due to the presence sits of a poisonous character. Mr. 1far­ chand records that "the bottom samples being caught and landed at the factories of masses of a species of a phosphores­ each week. Up to July 23, the latest cent organism. He has also established from this region give off a stench which is almost unbearable, and is somewhat for which the returns are to hand, 691 the fact, that on the \Vest Coast from whales had been caught. Cape Cross to south of Conception Bay similar to hydrogen sulphide, or the odor characteristic of putrefaction." There is, however, another and equal­ ly important side to the work of the SAN FRANCISCO· SAN FRANCISCO survey, and that is the introduction of new economic species of fish to South African waters, and also the stocking of inland rivers and lakes with fish capable BRANCHES, OAKLAND, MON· of multiplying and providing a valuable TEREY, PITTSBURG, EUREKA, food supply for the people of the interior. San Francisco Investigation has been made into the SANTA CRUZ, POINT REYES. po>;sibility of introducing the herring to the waters, but from all accounts there arc obstacles which might prove too International formidable even for science. Yet an­ other important phase of the survey's operations is an almost minute investiga­ tion in regard to fishing harbors on the Fish Co. South African littoral. Mainly as a result of the Fishery 535 WASHINGTON ST. Survey, the 1v!ossel Bay fishery has been SAN FRANCISCO developed to such an extent that at this little port one and three-quarter million pounds of fish were landed and handled there last year, and nearly a quarter of Nationwide Shippers Wholesale a million soles were caught and disposed of, the chief market being Johannes­ of Fresh and Mi!d Cured burg. Further activities of the local Fish Dealers fisheries there are the canning of 135,000 Salmon and Shad lbs. of fish, \vhilc 216 tons of fish-meal \vere ground and sold. Fresh, Mild-cured and fluge Whaling Fleet Smoked Fish The vast progress which has been Also Sliced Abalone made by the whaling industry in the Antarctic within the last few years can be gauged by the fact that at the present time 240 vessels, aggregating 350,000 Operating the Most Modern tons-the largest fleet of whaling vessels in the -world-are arriving at Capetown Type Diesel Trawlers from Europe and then proceeding to the Southern Seas. The fleet will spread along a portion of the ice barrier and work among numerous islands, such as South Georgia, South Shetland and the We also ltlild·cure Salmon arnl South Sanchvich Islands. It is estimated Shad, and supply the leading that 30,000 whales must be captured if markets tvitlt Abalone all the floating factories and transport are to be filled before the close of the We operate our own trawl­ season. In vie\V of this sudden expan­ sion of the whaling industry, speculation ers with the most modern is rife as to whether in future years there equipment available. will be a sufficient number of whales to make whaling profitable. \Evidently Requests for Quotations some of the ·whaling companies do not will be promptly answered. think the killing of whales can continue on the scale now contemplated, for they Nortlr.ern California arc having their floating factories so HOME OFFICE constructed as to be readily convertible Distributors N ortlic Telephone Davenport 1767 into ordinary oil tankers to carry petro­ Fillet of lladdoch leum and petrol. One of the fmest of P. 0. Box 2143 the whale oil factories that has arrived -BRANCHES­ this season is the "Vikingen." She is 491 feet long, 71 feet in breadth, and MONTEREY Cal.MARTINEZ, Cal. has a dead-weight carrying capacity of SANTA CRUZ " FORT BRAGG " over 14,000 tons. She has been specially Main Office, 542 Clay Street PITTSBURG " EUREKA built for the industry, and her main engines are of the triple-expansion type SAN FRANCISC, CALIF. SHELTER COVE and develop 4,300 i.h.p., the steam being supplied by four single-ended boilers 66 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 1,-andi.ngs at Monterey FRESH FISH BY MONTHS Month- Abalone Squid Mackerel Rockfish Salmon January ...... 164,550 28,131 33,618 160,992 ...... T1v'elve Million Pounds of Fresh Fish February ...... 27,953 87,920 119,208 ...... Received During 1929 March ...... 202,665 29,279 71,752 86,541 April ...... 427,375 536,649 9,602 102,397 ········110,833 During 12 months of fishing in 1929 May ...... 429,550 806,328 5,303 66,396 138,112 a total of 12,054,997 pounds of fish, ex­ June ...... 195,670 1,898,128 9,897 63,427 318,308 clusive of sardines, were landed in Mon­ July ...... " . . . . 339,950 1,004,270 55,745 31,953 147,048 terey. The 1929 figure indicates an in­ August ...... 698,975 203,441 126,878 101,763 683 crease of almost 5,000,000 pounds over September ...... 302,725 185 228,703 112,856 13 the preceding year. The 1928 catch was October ...... 165,125 ...... 136,683 138,894 ...... reported as 7,556,681 pounds. November ...... 353,425 4,014 117,432 143,045 A rough estimate of the value pf the December 132,450 24,788 136,635 93,096 ········ 1929 catch is $1,761,331, as compared ······· .... ········ with $1,254,343 in 1928. The value refers Totals .. , ...... 3,412,460 4,563,166 1,020,168 1,220,548 715,047 only to wholesale prices received by the fishermen. The value of the product, both to the markets and in a -retail sense would be far greater. The abalone catch SAN FRANCISCO for instance, valued at $1,126,111 by the SAN FRANCISCO fishermen, is valued by the markets at $1,399,084. As in 192i and 1928 the abalone catch in 1929 was the most valuable estimated at $1,126,111. The estimate for 1928 was $819,950, and foe 1927 $1,1l2,102. The Western The figures for the statistical tables ·which follow were supplied by S. H. Standard Dado of the bureau of commercial fish­ California cries of the California division of Fish and Game. Principal Fresh Fish Pounds Estimated Fish Company Variety- Taken Value Fisheries Anchovies ..... , .. 81,976 $ 48,000 General Offices Flounders ...... 1,186 59 Grayfish ...... 123,786 42,000 PRODUCERS AND 556-566 CLAY ST. }lake ...... 341 6 Halibut ...... 22,595 3,390 DISTRIBUTORS SAN FRANCISCO Kingfish ...... 67,033 3,352 lviackerel ...... 1,020,150 30,605 Horse Mackerel .. . 38,778 2,714 Operating our own Trawlers. : Perch ...... 39,080 1,954 Pompano ...... 221 100 Careful Attention given all PRODUCERS OF Rockfish ...... 1,220,548 4,882 orders regardless Sable fish ...... 36,019 . 1,080 Salmon ...... , , 715,047 85,805 desired. San dabs ...... 4,761 238 Sculpin ...... 396 4 Sea Bass, white .. . 5,997 719 BRAND Skates ...... 78,787 273 Smelt ...... 82,601 8,260 Sole ...... 134,566 6,728 Distributors \Vhitehait ...... 7,899 790 Miscellaneous .... . 195,705 7,828 Northern California West-Cal Bonita ...... 83 4 and Nevada BRAND Abalones ...... 3,4!2,460 1,126,111 Clams, Pismo .... . 9,255 4,627 Cuttle Fish ...... 65,761 9.207 "SEAFRESH Mussels ...... 200 3 Squid ...... 4,563,166 365,053 Cultus Cod ...... 126,601 7,593 FROSTED Fresh, Frozen, Salt, FILLETS" Smoked, Canned Totals ...... 12,054,997 $1,761,331 FLORIDA SPONGE FISHERY During 1929 sponges sold on the FISH Sponge E:xchange at 'f'arpon Springs, Florida, amounted to 378,514 pounds, MAIN OFFICE, valued at $706,645. ''fhis is a decrease of We Operate Our Own 8 per cent in quantity and 3 per cent in Foot of Leavenworth Street value, as compared with the quantity and SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA • Trmvlers value of the transactions during 1928. P. 0. BOX 2232 Of the total quantity sold in 1929, 206,338 pounds, valued at $606,844, were large wool; 32,635 pounds, valued at $48,- 952, were small \vool; 68,776 pounds, BRANCHES: Santa Cruz, valued at $32,096, were yellow; 59,705 Branches: Eureka, Oakland, Pittsburg, pounds, valued at $14,329, were grass, and 11,606 pounds, valued at $4,424, were EUREKA, PITTSBURG, Del Monte Fishing & Packing wire. Co., Monterey It is estimated that the value of sponges SANTA CRUZ, MONTEREY sold outside the Exchange during 1929, ~=====- amounted to $75,000.