The West Coast Fisheries, Volume 2, Number 3, January 1930
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HEN your tuna, your sardine or salmon package is W opened what's the answer? Have you won a steady customer because of its quality- its appetizing appearance. Chances are you have if you've packed it right- in the right kind of metal fish package. Canco metal fish packages are outstanding in workmanship and appearance-in the knack of keeping tuna, sardines or salmon as they should be kept. You can maintain a high level of sales-win permanent customers for your fish with these splendid containm. \ saves ..... time ...... labor A-B Spiral Chain Exhauster ...... spaee a 'l{_eal Profit ·Maker for the Fish Canner ...... money A Certified Performance Survey the cost of frying solution is en by the A. C. Nielsen Company, tirely eliminated. Moreover the independent engineering account machine is so designed to provide ants, showed a saving in one plant maximum output capacity in min equal to a net annual return of imum floor space, another out 89% on the investment for the standing advantage that will be A-B Spiral Chain Exhauster and specially appreciated where floor the raw- pack method over the space is limited. frying-and-drying method. It represents a distinct improve Moreover, the report continues: ment in exhausters for handling "If there were accurate figures oval, flat and irregular shaped on former steam requirement it cans. is believed that the saving effected You can increase your profits would be sufficient to more than by decreasing costs. You can pay for the equipmeut-$16,000- decrease costs by installing this iu one year's operatiou". improved exhauster. Write for With this exhauster four men complete details or talk with your now do the work of sixteen and nearest A-B representative. A copy of the Nielsen Srm•ey sfzoll'illg the sm•ing of the ran· ANDERSON -BARNGROVER MFG. CO. pack --method o1•et .dryi11g-mrd DIVISION OF FOOD MACHINERY CORPORATION fryiug method in the Del Mar Cmmiug Co., Monterey Calif is 70 PINE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO yortrs for the asking. Factories: San Jose and Hayward, Califordia A~ B SPIRAL CHAIN • FISH E HAUSTER
Tlw \Ve~i. Consl Fi~hedes j,; published numth!y, .January to Nn\'ember, and ;;emi-llJunth!y~in pe~er,?hi:?"· at,:Municitm! ,Fh;h Wharf. San. Pedro,_ Cu!ifon1ia, by .i\1. \\'. Eley. SubHcr-iplion $:U;o per year in the Unitetl State,; anti lnsulnt· l'os~e;;~wnH. Jouretl!:ll, ::i·l.nO. hnh~n·d al Snn Pedro PostnJhce a.~ ~l·cutl FRANCISCO -SAN PEDRO DIEGO-FISH HARBOR The Cook With Patterson Sargent Co .. MANUFACTURERS MARINE PAINTS, VARNISHES, Bottled Gas SPECIALTIES, COPPER P'AINT, THE NEW AND PERFECT FUEL FOR BOATS RED, BROWN, GREEN, Convenient-Safe-Clean P'roducts the Tratle Have Learned to Respect C. J. HENDRY CO., 27 Main St.• San Francisco C. J. HENDRY CO., 111-121 South Front St., Distributed by San Pedro C. J. HENDRY CO., 764 Tuna St., East San Pedro (Fish Harbor) HENDRY CO., 930 State St., San Diego C. J. HENDRY CO. Y OUR AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTORS San Francisco-San Pedro-San Diego · ------·- -- Let the Sun Shine y and the Wind Howl • and the Rain come down in sheets they will have no ill effect on decks fitted with KUHLS" Other It is pliable and elastic VVhy run the risk of ruining an other Kubis' Products under the most severe Elastic Seam Composition wise perfect cruise by gotng shipmates No. 2 provides perfect, conditions. Even after with an antiquated or decrepit galley positive protection to the your boat bas been laid hull. Elastic flat yacht range? white; elastic gloss yacht up all Winter, you will white and trowel cement There is a SHIPMATE the proper - complete season-1 on g find her decks as good size and type for your galley whether protection is assured. as new if Kubis' has Elastic Composition No. 3 you want to burn coal, wood, briquets, for laying canvas on decks been used. In five col oil or gas. housing and hatches. Also ors, white, gray, black, for canvasing and repair ing canoes. yellow and mahogany. H. B. FRED KUHLS Sole Manufacturer 65th Street and 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. s IPMATES Established 1889 THE STAMFORD FOUNDRY CO. All Marine Supply Dealers carry Kuhls' Products STAMFORD, CONN. 4 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES c 0 N T E N Underwriters Approved Shall People Lose Their Birth1·ig/zt? Is Czarism in Asce11dency? ...... 7 Fishing Boat Construction is Going LlJX Forward Rapidly ··············:··············· 9 1s now being installed in Tuna and Sardine Paching Seasons Jl!/ a king Good Showing ...... :11 many of the new boats By FORREST FORBES including Stormy TF eatherHinders Fresh Fish Rainbow GJACONI and KORDICH Production on Coast ...... 12 Musketeer ANDRE\\' ZAMB£RLIN Approaching Lenten Season Gives White Star K. CESAREO Hopes of Good Fresh Fish Markets . .13 SLAYKO IVANCIC Senator By WALTER R. SMITH Vvhy not add your boat to this growing list. Totuava-A Tf/inter Sea Food Delicacy ...... 16 LUX FIRE Beginning a .Monthly SurYey of Fish Available on the Fresh PROTECTION Markets of Southern California A Trip to Paradise ...... 17 means that your boat and catch comes home safe from fire losses. LUX DISTRIBUTORS Southern Northern Northwest DEPARTMENTS California California Alex Cow, Inc. Paul W. Hiller Hough & Egbert Seattle EDITORIAL ...... 14 Wilmington San Francisco FF\T ...... 19 Installment No. 2 of the Encycleopedia of Fish, Fruit and LUX AGENTS V cgetables. R. V. Morris ...... , , . , , ...... , ...... San Diego Yacht & Motor Sales Corp ...... Wilmington FISHERMEN ...... 27 Craig Ship Building Co., , ...... · .... Long Beach CANNERS ...... , ..... : ...... 34 William Sylva Co ...... , , . , , ..... , ... . San Francisco Beebe Co. . .. , ..... , , . , , , ...... Portland FISH MEAL AND OIL ...... 39 Seattle Marine Equipment Co ...... Seattle Hoffars Ltd. . , ...... Vancouver RETAILERS ...... 40 FRESH FISH ...... 41 Walter Kidde & Company, line. 140 Cedar Street (Contozts CojJyriglztcd, 1930, by M. W. Elcy.) NewYorlt JANUARY, 1930 5 ADVERTISERS Dependable Power -with A N Extreme Alaskan Glacier Seafood Co... 48 Naylor, Geo. F ...... 55 American Can Co ...... Front Cover Nehalem Bay Fish Co ... 50 Economy American Fisheries Co.. 56 Neubay Oyster Co... 43 American Fisheries, Inc...... 53 New England Fish Co ... American Fi!lhermen's Pro. Newport Fish Co ... "50 30 5 ... A~~r~~-----B~g;~ver :Mfg: 0 Co.... ------Inside Front Cover Anderson (Arthur) Fish Co.. 42 0 akland Fish Co .. . 45 Arcadian Seafood Co,...... 45 Ocean Fish Co ...... 53 Oregon Fish Co ...... 51 B p Berry Bros...... 33 Blumenthal. M. N ...... _,,,.. 46 Pacific Coast Fish Co .... 53 Booth (~·-E Co., Inc...... : 37 Pacific Mutual Fish Co., ·r~~: Bottle:l. o. of Calif...... 29 "WESTERN ENTERPRISE" Paladini (A.) Inc...... ~i Brenner J, },) Oyster Co.. 49 Parke & Kibele, Inc...... 29" Bristol Bay Packing Co... 43 Patterson Sargent Co ...... 3 DIESEL-MARINE ENGINES Peoples Fish Co...... 56 Designed to meet the most exacting re c Pioneer Fisheries 54 Portland Fish Co. 51 quirements of hard service with an unusual California Press Mfg Co...... Back Cover factor of economy a~d adapted to all types Cenac {C.} & Co __ _ 45 R Central California Fish Co .... of commercial and pleasure craft from small Rask Shipbuilding Co ...... 29 Central Fish Co...... tugs to ocean~going yachts. Complete in~ Central Fish & Oyster Co .... "55 Reeves, J. H ...... 51 Central Sheet Metal Works "31 Ripley (Edwin) & Son__ 49 formation and specifications are contained Chesapealte Fish Co...... 56 Ripley Fish Co., Inc .. 49 Coast Fisheries ...... 45 in our Catalog No. 505. Columbia River Packers. 42 s Crab-Salmon Fishermen's ProM WESTERN ENTERPRISE ENGINE CO. tective Assn...... 30 Salazar, Luis ...... 31 General Offices and Factory Cunningham. Allan ...... 33 San Die11.:o Fisheries Co ...... 56 1005 Alhambra Ave,, Los Angele-s, California Custoni House Packing Corp. 38 San Diego Fishermen's Assn. 913 Western Ave., Seattle, Washington Inc, ...... -... 30 Di.stributcts: D San Francisco --i"~i~~ti~-~~ Enterprise Engine Co., San Francisco, Calif. Fish Co, ...... , 57 Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding Co., North 9end, Ore. Davis (F. A.) Co .. 15 Sanitary Oyster Co...... 44 The von Hnmm Young Co., Ltd., Honolulu, T H Dowden, Henry Co. 42 San juan Fishing & Paeldng Edward Lipsett, Ltd., Vancouver, B. C. · ' 0 49 Peden Iron & Steel Co .. Houston, T"'xas E sa~ .iu1~cFi~·h·-co::::::::::::::::::::: 53 San Pedro Boat Building Co., A. R, Robbins Murine E.ngine Works, San Diego, Calif. Ets-Hokin & Galvan...... 33 Inc ...... 31 San Pedro Fish Co...... 54 & F San Pedro Grocery Supply Co ...... ----~------...... 31 Feller, Chas., Inc, ...... 42 Sardine Canners Association 30 of Calif...... 35 Fishermen's Cooperative Assn. Sebastian Stuart Fish Co.. 6 Fletcher Wiest & Co ... 4 X. Fisheries .. i~ ~~~!~~in ~~l.er w':;or~ s~~~::.. ~~ Frost (D. 0.) Corp .... Southern Calif. jap. Fisher- men's Assn...... 30 G Stamford Foundry Co..... 3 ·General Fisheries Corp, ...... 36 Standard Fisheries 5!'l Gold Beach Packing Co ..... 45 Standard Fisheries CO::~::·:·--.. 53 Gorton-Pew Fisheries ... 55 Star Fish Co. .... 44 Gross (E. B.) Canning Co .. 36 Star Fisheries ...... 54 Stellar Fish Co...... 56 H Sunset Fish Co...... 51 Superior Sea Food Co..... 55 Haines Oyster Co.. 47 Suttora (Frank} Fish Co.... 52 TJ7ishes to Announce Hannula (John, Jr.) ""Fi~h Co .. 49 Harbor Fish Co...... ---- 55 T Harbor Sheet Metal Works .. 31 Harbor Su!lply ·Co...... 32 Tacoma Fish & Packing Co... 49 A NEW AND Hendry (C. j.) Co ...... Tint's Fish Market ...... 51 Higashi Fish Co...... 52' Tong Sung Co.. 53 Holmes-Danforth-Creighton HELPFUL Co..... -...... 55 u Horman (J. P.) Fish Co ...... 52 SERVICE FOR Hovden (K,) Co... 38 Union Fish Co ... 56 Union Ice Co .. _ 31 I OUR READERS ·lngle Mfg. Co ... . 30 v Isenberg, M, H ...... 54 AND Van Camp Otganizations K ...... Inside Baclt Cover Van Camp Organizations ...... 56 ADVERTISERS Kidde (Walter} & Co., lnc .. 4 Van Camo Sea Food Co., Inc. 36 Kirby (Geo. Jr.) Paint Co .. 3?. Vitalich Bros. & Co... 55 Koulouris & 'co...... 44 Kuhls (H. B.) Fred. 3 w THE BUYERS GUIDE AND L Warrenton Fisheries Co. ____ ...... 43 Landers, Chas. A ...... Sb Western California Fish Co.... 58 La.rco CS.) Fish Co 5 Western Enterprise Engine FISHERIES DIRECTORY Lawrence ( J. E.) & --co·.·:-- Leonard Fisheries ...... ~r w~~~~;.;--s~i"t--c·a-:::·::----· 3~ Whiz Fish Co..... 4 i Lon~ Beach Boat Building Co...... 29 Wreden Packing & --p~~;f;fO~ To be publi5hed m this Long Beach Salt Co ...... Jo Co. 54 Los Angeles Fish & Oyster magazine monthlv. Inser Co, ..... y tion of name, address, pro M Young's Market Co ... 54 duct, etc., under class-ified Marine Products Co ...... 54 z section at minimum cost of Marine Sheet Metal Works 31 Mutual Fish Co. 54 Zanldch Bros, 54 $2.00. 6 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES ISH Seattle~ U.S.A. -Packers of- FRESH and FROZEN HALIBUT SALMON Mild Cured Salmon Canned Salmon Shall. People Lose Their 'Birthright? Is Czarism in Ascendency? AN IMPORTANT PROBLEM CONFRONTS CALlli. INDUSTRY-SOLUTION LIES IN UNITY I-TALL THE PEOPLE of California give up their ments are well known to be made as otten as not for S birthright and forever waive all voice in the reg political reasons-would legislate and execute laws re ulation of fish and game in this state? garding fish and game. This combination of the three This is exactly what is proposed by an organized arms of government is in itself a grave error, accord group of recrcationists who call themselves sportsmen ing to the principles upon which this country was built. -iind conservationists. This group of self-appointed cus And it is inconceivable to the fair-minded that three todians of the state's fish and game has an unquench fish and game commissioners, who might live any able desire to take out of the hands of the people the where -in the state, could ha \·e a better understanding right to regulate the taking of fish and game and to put of conditions in the various districts u[ the state than this power in the hands of three men appointed, as the senators or representatives elected from these dis anyone knows, for political reasons, and not because tricts. of any outstanding knowledge of Yet this group, and there the state's natural resources. Tlu Wrst Coast Fislll'rit•s is lwttrtily and 1111- seems to be identified with it no qualijirdly {n accord immediate problem, its bearing upon the fis!1eries. The Grocers' Secretaries' Association and other organiza fishing industry does not want plenary power for a tions in the food trades. commission upon which there is no guarantee that it There will be a large attendance at the conventions will ever have fair representation. As a matter of of West Coast people engaged in the various above principle, the industry does not think the cummiss.iGn lines. Tuna, sardine, mackerel and salmon packers should have this power, and in view of the many op will be .Particularly well represented at the canners' po~tunities for unfair administration of such powers, convention. California canners, as \Veil as those from has. announced that it will vigorously oppose them. Oregon and Vlashington, will be well represented. This alarming situation has resulted in defintc steps From the San Pedro district those attepding the con toward something that the industry of the state has ,vention are: Frank Van Camp, President, and needed for a long time-better unity, anrl a state-wide Roy P. Harper; sales manager, Van Camp Sea association of fishermen. Food Company, Inc., Terminal Island; Eel. Hoyt, To meet the situation now looming, Bryce B. Flor sales manager, French Sardine Company, Terminal Is ence of San Francisco was induced bv leaders of the land; Karl Enevoldsen, sales manager!; Southern Cali industry who have its welfare at he~rt, to take_ the fornia Fish Corporation; Joseph lvl. lVIardesich, presi lead in "the organization of all fishermen into this asso dent, Franco-I tali an Packing Company, Terminal' Is ciation for the prime purpose of self-protection. i\Tr. land; E. P. Spangler, traveling representative, Half Florence has spent much of his time during the past hill Packing Corporation, Long Beach; J. R. Biven, month or two making trips up and do·wn the length sales manager, Coast Fishing Company, \iVilmington. of the state conferring with leading fishermen in each K. Hovden, president of the K. Hovden Company, Yici.nity, and reported at the middle of January that :Monterey, will also be present, as will G. Ivi. Rothaug, all fishermen are signing pre-organization agreements San Francisco, representing the F. E. Booth Company, and that the formal induction of the association awaits Inc. now only the attending to a few details. Fishermen J, C. \Vood will represent Cohn-Hopkins, Inc., and everywhere are responding to the appeal with great th~ \Vestgate Sea Products Company of San Diego. enthusiasm. The canners' convention opens ":Monday, January 20, with morning and afternoon sessions, the latter being Historical Happenings a joint session with the National \iVho1esale Grocers' Perhaps everyone does not realize it, but important Association, whose annual convention is being held at history is being made now as this association takes the Congress Hotel. At this joint meeting the sub form. Organization of it should be recorded as one of ject of advertising will be presented. Dr. Thiorris Fish the most significant, constructive steps the industry bein, editor of the Journal of the American :rvredical has vet taken. From the north to the south, the ·story Association, will speak from the point of view of the is about the same; fishermen are awake to the danger""s medical profession; Dr. Paul Dunbar ot the United of further inertia; they want to know only the plans States Department of Agriculture, from the viewpoint for organization and functioning before throwing their of the government food law enforcement officials; and support with the group. Miss Lita Bane, of the Ladies' Home Journal, from the lvlr. Florence states that at San Francisco Bay every viewpoint of the homemaker and consumer. fisherman has committed himself to join the associa On Tuesday, VVeclnesday and Thursday the ten com- , tion. It is the same -..vay at Eureka and Santa Cruz, modity section groups into which the National Canners' where a11 fishermen now fishing have signed up. A Association is divided, will hold their meetings, and general meeting was to be held in JVIonterey about press each afternoon there will be informal conferences at time, but sentiment was strongly in favor of the move which canners and growers of canners' crops will have ment~ according to leaders. All fishermen in the San an opportunity to discuss their problems with scientific Pedro district will join, it is believed, as sentiment is experts who will be in attendance. Tbe canners' con also strongly favorable there, and meetings to con vention ends with a general session on Friday. sider the proposition are still being held. This same 1\iaintaining throughout the week an extensive ex also ~pplies to San Diego, where leaders of the local hibit at the Stevens Hotel, the Canning ~fachinery and associations give very encouraging reports of prog Supplies Association will hold its annual gathering on ress. No meetings have yet been held at Ft. Bragg, VVednesdav. The National Food Brokers' Association due to the off season, but a gathering will be called as will meet" each day from l\!Ionday to Thursday, in soon as is convenient. clusive. Among the entertainment features planned are a bro kers' dinner on Tuesday evening, dinner dance on \Ved nesday evening under the auspices of the Canning 1Ia The Chicago Sessions chinerv and Supplies' Association, dinner given by the AnchOr Cap and Closure Corporation on \Vednesday ROM JANUARY 20 to 24, for• the third co~ISecutive evening, and an entertainment at 1\ledinah Temple on Fyear, Chtca,go \Vlll be host to the country s largest Thursday evening, given by the American Can gathering of food producers and distributors, when the Company. twenty-third annual convention of the National Can ners' Association will be held at the Stevens I-Iotel, ln conjunction with the Canning l\{achinery and Supplies NEW FISH HATCHERY LIKELY Association and the National Food Brokers' Associa An authorization for a fish hatchery to l)e established tion. During the same week meetings will also be at the juncture of Elk Creek and tl;e Rogue River in held in Chicago by the National \Vholesale Grocers' Oregon, with provision that $35,000 be appropriated Association, the National Retail Owned \Vholesalc for construction and initial operation there. is included Grocers' Association, the National Pickle 'Packers' As in the omnibus Jisherie.s bill reported by the House of sociation, the National Kraut Packers' Association, the Representatives committee on merchant marine and National Preservers' Association, the National Retail fisheries, at \Vashington, D. C. .]ANVARY, 1930 9 \ Fishing Boat Construction is Going Forward Rapidly NEW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CRAFT IN WATER; OTHERS TAKING SHAPE QVICKLY HE FISHING BOAT CONSTRUCTION pro ing took place at the San Pedro Boat Building Company T gram of Southern California now can be said to be yard at Terminal Island on January 19, making the under way with full steam, there having been several third large tuna boat to be constructed at that yard, launchings within the past two months, in which period according to I\ianager Anton Brajevich. numerous other boats in the process of building have Some 103 feet in length, with a raised deck follow taken form rapidly and will seek the water in the com ing the fashion set by 1\'Ianager Brajevich when he de ing month or two. signed the "Cipango" several months ago, the ''lvi uske.:.. At AI. Larson's yard, Terminal Island, two boats teer" presented a graceful sight as she cut the water. were dropped clown the ways: the "Rainbow" for Anton Installation of her engine, a 375-h.p. \Vestern Enter I.Cordich, on December 16, and her sister boat, the 11 Se~1- prise Diesel, will take place at once and the ":i\luske ator", for Slavko Ivancic, on January 2. The craft are teer" will be ready for duty 1Iarch 1, when Zamberlin of the combination type, adapted both to purse-seining will begin fishing for the Van Camp Sea Food Com and live-bait fishing, arc 89 feet in length, and "iill be pany, Inc. completed in February. The "Rainbow" is powered The boat will be insulated with cork under the deck with a 300-h.p. Western Enterprise Diesel engine and and with a thickness of two feet of salt on the sides. the second boat will have a 220-h.p. Diesel of the same 'rhe refrigeration will be supplied with a five-ton York make. Turntables will pennit purse-seining, and, on the Ice machine. A11 of the auxiliaries will be operated by other hand, Lip1nan ice machines will enable tuna fish VVestinghouse electric equipment. The accommodations ing on distant grounds. The "Rainbow" is insulated by being built into the "I\htsketeer" are of the best put cork under the deck and bulkheads by the Gay Engi into fishing craft, with staterooms, galley, etc., for the neering Compan)r of Los Angeles, and Ivancic's boat crew. The hull was painted with Brininstool's marine has cork insulation. paint of the General Paint Corporation, Los Angeles, The two boats are splendid examples of the new just before launching, and completion of the craft \vill trend in construction, which is toward boats which can be rushed. fish either with nets or lines. Iviany of these com bina The "l\ilusketeer" will have an exceptional cruising tion boats have been built during the past year or are capacity, in view of the fact that she will be able to now under construction, and fishermen state that they carry 13,000 gallons of fuel oil. The capacity of the hold are working out entirely satisfactorily, giving the own fo.r iced fish will be approximately 160 tons, according ers a chance at both tuna and sardines. to IVIr. Brajevich. There will be three staterooms for the crew and one for Capt. Zamberlain, \vho will transfer Before launching, both boats were provicle'cl with his command from the "Detroit," which he now owns Cape Cod copper paint. Considerable iron bark and oak and operates, to the '').{usketeer," when she is com also went into their construction. missioned. The "Rainbow" will fish for the French Sardine Com There will be no bait tanks on the deck, but bait wells pany of Terminal Island. She represents an investment are being built inside, allowing operations as a com of approximately $48,000, which is also true of Ivan bination purse-seiner and liYe-bait boat. A turntable cic's boat, to go into fishing service for the Van Camp will be provided for the seine fishing. Sea Food Company, Inc. ilfore "Corn-bination. .;;" "ltlu.sheteer" Takes to Sea l\tfore combination craft also are under construction. If not one of the three lVIusketeers, the "11usketeer,H At the Long Beach Boat Building Company yard two in its U\Vl1 right, having been named such by her owne1-, 76-foot seiners and bait boats are being fashioned under Anclre\v Zam berlin, has taken to the water. The launch- (Continut.'d on Page JS) Siavko Ivancic's Ut!W boat, recently launched at Al. Lnrstln's yard, Terminnl !sian~: left; the "Rainbow," ~lso recently launched at the san::: yard, owned by Anton Cordich and J, v. Giaconi, right 10 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES THE NEW YEAR HE YEAR OF 1930 is stretching before us. What this year will mean to the fishing industry is a matter of conjecture. All T agree, however, that there are certain problem.s befm·e us that must be met if the fisheries of the west coast are to prosper. That these problems are grave and will need concerted action is attested upon e~1ery hand. Tf/ e have heard it said that the 1·ecent gyrations on the stock mad:.et had thei1· effect even upon the fishing industrj'. There may have been sotne mmnentary tightening of mone:y, but fo1· the stock market to pennanently injure the indusry is absurd. People m.ight keep on driving last yem·'s car or wearing last year's clothes if a bit discour aged by f{/ all Street, but last year's /ish will not satisfy this year's appe tites. A fundamental food industry is always better entrenched in the economic system than nwst any other. On the occasion of the new yea1·, some of the prom.inent men of the industry have written us sho1·t statements, a few of which appem· below.-The Editor. and our outlook for the present year is most optimistic. E. 13. Cross The effects of the stock market crash are about over; President, E. B. Gross Canning Co., Monterey a.nd funds previously used for speculation will now be utilized in purchasing food items, thereby helping the Says: fish industry in general. \iVe can see no reasons why we should not enjoy an increased tuna business for lt should be the NEW YEAR'S RESOLVE of everv 1~30, with prosperity ahead and our quality pack the member (Jf the commercial fishing industry in th(s contributing- factors. State to stop short of 'nothing but a complete reorgani zation of the Department of Natural Resources. There shot1ld he quick and complete divorce of the Depart ment of Commercial Fisheries· from the political machine of "sporstmen" from which the Fish and Game 13. D. Marx Greene Commission now draws its strength in its arbitrary Vice President and General Manager, Sardine Canners Association handling of commercial fishing subjects and the perse of California cution of indi\·idual members of the industry. I'dnre than enough money is being- collected from the com mercial fish catch to support an elaborate research de Says: partment to uncover some facts which the present or The past few months have clearly demonstratl'Ci the ganization has failed to do. The useful knowledge de meaning of cooperation in ihe canning industry. -veloped by the department is nc.gligible, prohabl)' he cause the -..vnrk has been confined to theoretical pro-· The members of the Sardine Canners Association eeedure instead of along practical lines in cooperation through their organization, committees and individual with the industry itself. The Department of Com efforts of nH.'mbers have so conducted their canning ai mercial I-1isheries should include at least one metnber fairs that not a single one of them has been broug-ht to from the inclustrv. The "foot ball .. season is over and task bv the Fish and Game· Commission for any in uf it is time for th~ industry to make its voice heard in fractio;l of the reduction law regulating the numb-er the machinations at Sacramento. cases that must he canned out of each ton of fish re ceived. It has been demonstrated also that the frequent meetings of Otti· Association when we get tog-ether around the table to discuss our mutual problem~ lead E. S. Rowe to better understanding of another and a fuller know Mero::h;mdise Manager, Stewart Curtis P.;;ckers, Inc., Los Angeles ledge of cannery and marketing problems. VVe ha-ve high hopes for the futm:e and feel that as Says: time goes on our organization as it becomes stronger VVe are going into 1930 with e\·cry confidence in a will be better ahlc to cope with the numerous problems big year. Tuna is gaining ste.adily in public demand; which are continually arising. JANUARY, 1930 ll Tuna and Sardine Packing Seasons Make Good Showings SATISFACTORY OUTLOOK HELD FOR INDUSTRY THIS SEASON By FORREST FORBES URVEY CJF WEST COAST canning activity for tuna was light during the past season. _But the striped Sthe recently dosed vear ·and the first interval of the tuna, or skipjack catch was declared the heaviest in new year revCals that-packers have corllpleted a nor years. rnaHy successful tuna season, an outstanding Decem ber sardine pack, and are anticipating a favorable rise Pack Resumes Soon in the sardine market, substantial catches, and, the re Completing their 1929 season, the tuna boats were sumption of tuna consignments from the high seas. in port before Christmas and were laid up for over The past year ended with a successful tuna season. haul. After New Year's they shoved mf for IVIexican packers assert. This is indicated in the report from 58 waters., \i\Tith the arrival of Februarv 1, the return yessels fishing l\'lexican waters out of San Diego. Dur of tuna boats from Cape San Lucas an~d the Islands is lng the period' commencing July 15 and ending Decem expected. ber 31, a total of 12.000 tons of tuna was taken. And Result of the recently announced i\lexican law re of this amount, 8.000 tons were yellow fin, and 4,000 quiring. payment of $lOb additional fee f01- anchorage tons skipjack or striped tuna. and bait permit necessary on the lVIexkan coast has been anticipated \vith curiosity. lVlany beiieve that the Tuna Catch Normal new provision will largely confine the tuna catch to According to leading packers, the tuna figure is about excellently outfitted high seas vessels equipped to dis normal, or perhaps slightly better than for the same pense with coastal contact in their activities. period in 1928. The receipts were considerably more Summarizing the immediate tuna outlook, packers than were noted during the first half of the year. High have pointed out that the .-;pring catch will probably boat honors in the San Diego fleet were given Capt. be normally lighter than in the fall. No packing- has 1\Ianue\ Ro:->a's ''Lusitania." The last half of the year been reported for January, the period between seasons. \Vas normally larger, the best periods concentrated in the latter part nf August, and in September and Oc Sardines M uke Recorcl tober. December offered the best sardine pack in the his \\rhile the chief part of the Tvlexican catch was tory of the San Pedro industry in poil1t of steady ac brought to San Dieg-o, a total of about 2,000 tons was tivity for a single -month, packers conceded. Twenty delivered at San Pcclru. 'l'he local catch of blue fin nine complete packing clays were credited the mont"11. Tuna fishery stenes-left, tuna on the floor of a cannery; right, an air view of San Diego harbor, an important tuna tenter; in oval, a portion cf the. fishing fle-et; right, the Westgate Sea Produtts Company cannery at San Diego 12 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES Stormy Weather Hinders Fresh Fish Production on Coast STORMS CURTAILING SUPPLY, SURVEY OF WEST COAST PRODUCERS SHOWS RESH FISH PRODUCERS, distributors aud re were able to reach the spa\vning- gronnds, hence it F tailers of the \Vest Coast look forward to a sub is believed that salmon will he extremely scarce three stantial increase in business with the approach of the and four years from now. - Lenten season, according to reports from all along the "Perhaps the most important transaction on the Ne coast. As a matter of fact, this stinntiated business halem Bay is the transfer of the Star Fish Compa~y already has begun, a! though \Vith the hancJicap of tm to the Point Adams Packing Company, located at Ham steady and curtailed supplies of local fish, clue to the mond, Ore. This transaction innllves the Tillamook storms which whipped the coast during the early part Bay plant of the Star Fish Company as \Veil as the of January. one here. The Point Adams Packing Company have From San Diego, Calif., on the south. to the states stations on several of the coa::;t streams and arc well of VVashington and Oregon on the norti1, the reports and favorably known by all who come in contact with are practically the same: The Christmas-New Year them. l\{r. Nelo Rentila ha:o. not divulged any plans holidays halted ,production and before its resumption for the future since selling his holdings, Dttt his friends could take place on an important scale, rains, \\·incb are wishing him well in any undertaking that he as and rough weather outside kept the majority nf the sumes, be it fish or some other underta1dng. fishermen in port. Catches have been light and unde ''A. Ramsey of the Tillamook Bay Fish Company, pendable. located at Bay City, was a visitor here on Nehalem Soutlrern California Bay last week. He said he was looking for fish, as The experience of Southern California Jirodncers, in there had been ver:y few on Tillamook Bay.". general. follows the above summary. l\1ex7can sea bass If/aldport, Ore. or totuava has been the principal mainstay of the mar Fishing is yery slack now at \Valdport, Ore., ac, ket, being caught on the Gulf of California and trucked corcling to E. ]. Oakland of Oakland's Fish ·camp (re or ship.ped by -rail to market, thus not being influenced porting Jan. 10). Only steelheads and none too great by weather on the outside coast. Totuavit predomin a quantity of them is being caught. ~\fter this month ates the Southern California market toclay and pro there will be very little fishing until about the first ducers expect it to continue to do so the rest of tht.: of June, then the chinook season begins. winter. At Eureha As tu Pacific-caught fish, there has iJeen no great There is very little activity at Eureka, Calif., at pr6- abundance. The market for lobsters bas been slo\\·, ent, according to a report Jan. 10 by \Villiam Kay, despite the fact that production was not great. There secretary of the Eureka Fishermen's Union. Three of has been some rock cod and yellowtail at San Pedro, the deep water set liners continued fishing after the in addition to tuna, barracuda and mackerel. 'There halibut season closed. They brought in fair catches of was no fishing during the holidays. Distributors re black cod until Christmas. The crab season is open port that oysters are moving in good quantities this now, but v~ry few crabs have been re'ceiveli. Approx winter. · imately a dozen and a half boats are fishing for them. Sanla Barbara There are no crabs in the bay and the boats can get The bad weather also hit production of Santa Barb outside only about half the time on account of the are and vicinity and the quantities of fish available has weather disturbing the bar. There is much demand not amounted to a great deaL for crabs and the markets are always out. A couple of ill ont.erey sacks oi crabs a clay seems to be a good catch. There 1\lonterey production, too, has heen light. In addi are eight or ten fishermen that take advantage of the tion to sardines for the canneries, the boats llave landed good low tides to seine in the bay for smelts and her but little mackerel and some rock cod. The abalone ring. The catches of smelts are small so far. What season, which closed on January 15, was declared to herring is caught is being frozen for .bait to be used have been an exceptionally good one, with production during the coming halibut season, \Yhich opens Feb steady and quantity fairly large. The squid fishery l2as ruary 15. experienced no great production and only occasional P;actically all the fresh fish for the retail markets is loads of fractions of a ton have been received hy the being shipped in from other ports now for a while. markets. Lenten season always helps the retail markets there, At Nehalem Bay according to l\fr. Kay, to dispose of more fresh fish. "Silvers have quit running and steelheads arc un as there is only three or four local marf.;:et.s and seven usually scarce fnr January, ·with small prospects of an or eight peddling outfits that supply Eureka. 'fhe ped increase. \iVe are experiencing a cold snap, below dlers usually work Eureka a day or two each week and freezing, hence fc\\· fishermen arc on the job," says the surrounding country the re~t nf the time. l\Tr. Klein nf the ::\ehalPm Bay Fish Company, \Vhce ler, Oregon. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA "As to our fishing' season which began on August 1 By W'\LTER R S~IJTH last, chinook were below normal as were silvers, hoth Sunny skies and gentle breezes helped tn make the appearing much later than usual. As the waters \\'ere task of ushering- in the New Year in 1\urthern Cali extremely low in all spawning stream:->, fe\V salmon (Couti1llud on Pag;• 15) J A N U A R~Y, I 9 3 0 13 Coming Lenten Season Gives Hope of Good Fresh Fish Markets OPPORTUNE TIME liAS COME FOR WIDE-AWAKE PRODUCER OF FlSl/ By WALTER R. SliiiTH NE OF THE STc\R salesmen of the fishing bnsi· acquainting the consuming public with the desirabil O_ ness \viii soon be with us for a six \Veeks' stay. ity and goodness of frozen fish. The standard picture of a star salesman being a young, Every wholesaler should enclea\·or to sell their trade aggressive, modern sort of a person does not hold in on the idea of handling frozen fish during ·this period. this case, one of the reasons being that the star sales Bv that we don't mean that all fish needed be frozen~ man is i1ot a person at all, bUt the retailer could be advised of the vaine of having but a period of time and is on hand a representative stock of fish instead of con:_ anything but modern. fming his sales to just the species of fish that happen The star salesman we refer to be available in their fresh state. to is Lent which \Vill start It has been demonstrated that the majority of people on I\.farch 5 and be with us in California confine their purchases nf fi.sh to just until Ar~ril 20. ln the six three or four species. During most of the vear wlH~ti. weeks covered by the Lenten fish .sales arc on a one-day-a-week basis ·these fish period, fish will be eaten two hold the center of the stage much to the detriment of or three times a ·week bv a other species nf fish which are in rl'ality better flavored good percentage of our Pop and as easy to prepare. ulation. This is very fine, Retailer Could Play Big Part hut unfortunately for the 'I'he retailer could play even a greater part than the business, the jJeriod is all too wholesaler in popularizing flsh during Lent_ Let him :-hart. Furthermore, Lent during this period make his counter as attractive as comes at the tunc of the year possible; endeavor to sell his trade the idea that if fish when fi.sh are scarce as a -rule are good three times a week in Lent, that they are and the consumer cannot be just as good in other periods of the year. Explain to offered, due to this scarcity, him the sort of fish they are buying and how often the variety and kind of fish WALTER R SMITH it is available. Try to sell them on the idea of coming which would tend to popu back to buy the species of fish which perhaps they have larize fi~h during other months of the year_ Tradition not used before. and religious custom are the factors which impel the The whole industry should co-operate in putting on consuming public to eat fish during Lent. 'I'he fish a campaign of advertising by means of posters, news ing industry has accepted this yearly spurt in their papers, advertisements, magazines, articles, etc. Peo business complacently and have never, as far as we ple are thinking o( fish and buying fish during Lent; know, endeavored to capitalize on their Lenten sales half the advertising job is done and with a little extra of fish with the thought in mind of building further work and effort by the industry, an immense amount business through the fact that this period is the ont: of good can be done. time of the year when thousands ·and thousands of people who eat fish :perhaps once a week or twice Need of Advertising a month during the balance of the year are. coming It might perhaps strike many that fish does not need to the fish stores and buying fish two or three times advertising rlurlng Lent. Business is usually good, in a week. The great majority of this trade do not kno\\" fact, many firms ha\'C dif-ficulty in taking care of their or appreciate ·seafood-perhaps never go near a fish trade during Lent. Just because business is good is counter at any other season of the year. no reason why we shouldn't try to capitalize the in terest in fish by making the consumer want it all the Co-operation Necessary time. '1'housands of other businesses and industries 'ro conduct a campaign to supply fish during the amongst which we might mention some o( the public Lenten period would necessitate co-operation by the service corporations, those who supply us with our entire industry. One o{ the main difficulties in Lent lights, water, etc., find it well worth their while to is the scarcity of fish. Fish would not he scarce, how adYertise. Their business is good every day in the year, ever, if preparations were made to get an adequate but they make sure that the people whom they serve supply of stock on hand for use during this period. understand what they are getting ancl ho-w they ;n-c g-et The fishing industry has been urged, pieadccl with, ap ting iL proached in every possible manner to enlarge and bet Lent is almost here anrl we ca1inot do all that we !er their facilities for freezing fish. Nearly e\~eryone should do to take advantage of this season. The start m the industry by no-w is familiar at least with the can be made, however, by taking a little extra thoug-ht argument in favor of properly frozen fi.sh and to the into the sale of fish during- the six weeks-from 1\Tai-ch ~redit of the industry it must be said that this preach 5 to _April 20. Do not regard this period as a bonanza mg is having the desired effect_ The point we wish time and endeavor to g-et all that the traffic will bear; to make clear is this: That the Lenten pcr10d offers rather try to use this period in making new friends for a wonderful opportunity tl) the fishing industry of your inclustr.y, 14 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES THE WEST COAST fiSHERIES A Journal Pnblishcd in the Mid.st of and Sponsored by t!u Diversified Interests Represeuting the Fastest Grora•ing, Richnt muf. ,~ar,~est Fishing Section on the Globe. M. W. ELEY, Publisher Edito6al Ojficn, Municipal Fish Wharf, Srw Calif. JOHN T. WATTS, Editor H. H. BEACHLY, Business Mgr. Telephone San Pedro 4890 M. E. MALTBY, Circulation Mgr. Representatives anJ Corrnpondents in Practically E'Very Fishing Gettler on the IVest Coast of America Subscription Rates: $3.50 per am1um iu the United Sit1frs and Insular Posseuio1ts. Foreign Countries, $1..50. Ad'l.!ertisers will take notice that forms clou 011 the 25t11 of the month previews to date o{ is.we. Copy for Advertisements or directions for cl1angcs must be in the Publisher's hands Ten Days Brforc Closing Dale. Advertising rates on application of his office will be available for this purpose and all Citizenship fishermen desiring to take out their papers should com municate with \:VCF at once or directly with the bureau ITIZENSI-J!P IN THE UNITED STATES i, a of n~turalization. · C privileg-e which we all should appreciate. It is a The importance of citizenship cannot be gi,·en too regrettable fact that although most fisflermen eith~r much stress. The fishing industry in California is no-w were born in this countrv or have taken out naturah. girding for a battle, which, if lost, will result in serious. .zation papers since comin~g- to A.merica, there is a small detriment to fishermen. Certain clements of the state minority scattered from Southern California to Alaska are attem-pting to give plenary po\vers to the fish and who are not citizens of the country in which they work. game commission, which leaders of the industry believe All fishermen who have friends who are not citizens would have bac,l effect upon the fishery, and the in should put forth every effort to have them take out dustry will need every influence at its command in their papers, not only because it is the proper thing tn order to combat the mOvement. do, but because the fishing industry will need every vote possible if it is to secure just representation in legislative matters that loom on the horizon. ']t appears that the principal reason the few fisher Less Competition men who have not taken out citizenship papers ha\·e failed to do so is the time element. They declare that ESS COMPETITION through advertising, and an they would like to become citizens hut t':'Jat thev arc L increase in chain store business during 1930, is pre out~ fishing so much that they do not find the tii;le to dicted by Godfrey l'vL Lebhar, chain sture authority, in ;;tudy up on the requirements for naturalization. announcing plans of he and his associates for the pres l'vi ust fishermen understand and read and write En ent year. This. program includes more newspaper CANNED FOODS BROKERS Specializing tn• Canned Fish 112 Market Street San Francisco, Calif. TELEPHONE DAVENPORT 5626 16 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES T otuava-A Winter Sea Food Delicacy OTUAVA OR ME:'i:lCAN giant sea bass is California. T'he fish is entirely different from the sea T one of the most delicious of fishes with which bass caught off California, and is scientifically the palate of Southern California has been ·blessed. known as "Cynoscion macdonaldi." -whereas the 'rhe romantic story of the totuava fishery on the Pacif1c fish is "Cynoscion nobilis." Gulf of California has already been told in this The California sea bass is much smaller than the magazine by Geo. Roger Chute of the California totnava and is not caught in quantities steady State Fisheries Laboratory, one of the outstanding enough to make it of great significance on the authorities upon the subject. market. The catch in the San Pedro district is some Caught in the gulf. and trucked over desert and what under half a million pounds annually, with the mountains to San Diego and San Pedro, totu;:rya take at San Diego a third of that. The height of the provides one of the principal season is in August at San Pedro, sources of fish for Southern Cali WCF lwrewith begins n .~erit!S of June at San Diego and October skt!tches of the principal /rt•sh marl,t!l fornia during the winter months fishes arailaiJle in Southern Cnlifornia. at San Francisco, where sea bass, from October to l\{ay. Tht~se slwrt articles will nppear each however, is of less importance month aml are tlesignetl to aill the trade than in the more southern ,\raters. Although an exceptionally large in the movtmwnt of the t)arious fish. There/on,. it will be our purposf~ to VVhile specimens of the fish fish, totnava has a fine texture treat of eacJ. variety at uluntl the season and a most tasty flavor.· It is it lu~f:omes important upon tlu! nlarhet, reach a weight of from 50 to 60 marketed in the fillet form almost -Editor's Note, pounds, the average caught is entirely and when purchased by between 15 and 25 pounds. The · the housewife lends itself admirably and conveni fish are principally taken with gill nets and round ently to almost any fonn of cookery. Frying re haul nets. The Japanese people are big consumers quires but an instant. aking results in a delicious of sea bass. dish. Broiling or nearly any other method lends The habitat of the fish is around kelp and it is itself almost as well to the preparation of totuava. therefore difficult to catch with a line. It is con The height of the totuava season is in the middle sidered an excellent sport fish. In general the sea of winter and the supply of fish is pretty constapt, bass varieties have been an important source of supply for the California markets, and in the future except at short periods when storms block the roads should be of greater significance in view of the in out of Mexico and this fault seems likely to be creasing exploitation of the Gulf of California fish remedied, inasmuch as rel:ent experiments have ery, and because of the popularity which totuava been made with the shipment of totuava by rail into has won as a sea food. This picture shows native fishermen of the Gulf of California carrying totuava frotn their canoes ashore, where they will be dresset!. and the females robbed of their "buche," which is talten to be sent to China from Guaymas--a profitable industry which was really the introduction of the totuava. The fish are then loaded on small trucks and taken ac:r06S the desert to the American border, where large refrigerated trucks talte them and transport on into California. JANUARY, 1930 HENRY DOWDEN San Francisco broker, o.te o( the leading spirhs of the e:u:pedition to the gulf C. ], SEBASTIAN (Center) CRAD MEREDITH Senior partner in the Seattle producing company Of the Newport Fish Company, Newport, of Sebastian~Stuart Fish Company, who has Ore., enthusiastically bound for MeJdco resolved to bag some game· in Mexico A Trip to Paradise - Fisheries f\1en at the Gulf ROUGHING IT IN MEXICO WITH FISH AND WILD GAME By OSCAR 1'. JOCJ\G DE REGAJ\ EAVING FROM SAN PEDRO, California, about holes, cut wood, open lemon soda and shave him-thus L the 26th of January, a party of prominent \Nest s~n·ing many dollars on the trip. Coast fisheries people will proceed to Tucson, Arizona. C. J. Sebastian looks very much like one of those via Southern Pacific, and after arriving in Tucson will purveyors of kitchen utensils on New York's east side then go overland to Port Libatad on the Gulf of Lower plenty of everything is his policy. Following is a California. partial list of what he is going to carry: Nine blankets. Odd as it may seem, the· trip is purely for sport. two pillows, two frying pans, one Gideon Bible, 606 N: ow can you imagine big fisheries people fishing ~r feet lariat rope (of course, to fish with), two milk fun? It will be like ,placing a plow horse in the Tia shakers, four quarts of Dr. Grayson's famous rattle Tnan a Coffroth handicap. Nevertheless, it must be true snake antidote, string around his finger which is a gift from Lttby, his famous traveling Spellbinder (the for the object of the trip, according to Henry Dow gift in question is a letter asking for a raise in sal den (the big fish broker from San Francisco) is to get ary), a bottle of Djerkiss perfume. Oh, yes, I almost away from bltsiness for a while. (You r.mow what I forgot, a Chicago .machine gun, and other things too mean). , numerous to ment10n. The party will be composed of the fo1lowing pro H~nrr Dowd~n is. also well equipped. Here's part hibitionists: C. J. Sebastian, head of the Sebastian-Stu of hts llst: A hngenng memorv of the stock market art Fish Company, Seattle; Alex Pala.clini, president of plenty of Cleopatra cigars, wa~d of telegraph blanks: A. Palalini, Inc., San Francisco; Crad 1v1eredith, man 304 I. 0. u.:s, picture of Bryce Fl.orence, his partner, ager of Newport Fish Company, Newport, Oregon; a cook book, Slx volumes of Dr. \i\Tlutcom b's discussions staff representative of The \\Test Coast Fisheries, and on how to sell fish, one fish hook and twelve order pads. Really, He11ry is on a pleasure junket (but von others. just gotta know Henry). , ~ As a rule commercial fisheries men always take As for the rest of the party we will tell von all about scales when they go fishing, however, the only ear then1 in the February issue of The \Vest Coast Fish marks of commercialism in this ,party is the six-\vay eries, for we will make. a lot of photographs and 1ve corkscrew in the personal possession of Alex Pala pronnse you there will be nothing left to the dini, 1vhich he claims will open cans, clean fish, dig imagination. 18 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES FISHING BOAT CONSTRUCTION (Continued from Pagt' 9) Astoria Packers Watchful "the snpcrYision of Gus Nordlund. rrhey are for JakoY By WILLIAM PUUSTINEN lVlisetich and Pmvell Fiamengo, and both will fish for HE BELO\V NORMAL salmon pack of the last the Coast Fishing Company of \Vilmington. T t1vo years on the Columbia H.h-er may be respo,nsi :rvlisetich's boat, the "Georgia No.2," will be launched hle for the quiet atmosphere, this winter, around the to\varcl the latter part of January and the "Johnny Boy·" ::;edmon packers of Astoria and vicinitv. \Nhere the usual Fiamengo's craft, will follow a few days later. Each anticipation of the coming of the ne~v season geperaliy 'boat will cost in the neighborhood of $30,000 and each manifests itself, at this time of the year, in addition to. will be pcnvered with a :200-h.p. \Vestern Enterprise rebuilding of packing plants and warehouses. in me Diesel engine. chanical innovations, in the building of new gillnct Heets, seining boats, cannery tenders and receiving Other. Construction stations, this winter the Astoria salmon packers are This is bv no means all of the construction activity doing little more than installing some new machinery ·going on i;I the San Pedro-\Vilmington-Long Beach for the packing of the recently clen~lopcd quarter-pound area ..At the Parke & Kibele yard at \iVilmington, :rvlan tins. uei Gnularte, well-known boat builder who has to his The packing of salmon in thi:; ::~izerl can was initiated credit the ~'Sea Rider," and numerous others, is busy on the Columbia .River in 1928 as an experiment to directing the building of the l\'Iorgan Bros.' new 120- meet a new demand for salmon ·in a smaller can than foot live-bait buatand John Gabelich's 95-foot combina thC haH-pound and one-pound tins generally used. This . tion boat. l\·'I'r. 'Goularte expects to slide the former into size is especially designed for the convenience of the the \\'ater on February 15. She must be ready for the tourist, who wishing merely to sample the salmon would sea 1\fay 1. The two outstanding features of the cr;;~Jt not care to purchase the. larger cans. arc the facts that she will han~ a .500-h.p. \\.Testern En Incidentally, as only the better grades of salmon will terprise Diesel engine, few fishing boats ·on this coast be packed in this new sized tin, it should prove quite today have as much power, and that Gonbrte has de an advertising device for salmon generally. The new signed a streamline stern which should greatly assist tins will sell fnr about ten cents each. propeller efficiency by guaranteeing that the blade will In the 1929 season, both the Columbia River Packers be in solid water. The hold will carry J 50 tons of fish Association and the Point Adams Packing Company or more and will be refrigerated by a Yurk ice machine. put up considerable quantities of sih-er salmon in the John Gabelich's boat will follow the l\lurgan craft quarters and report fair success with the sales. into water bv a week or twn. l\lr. Gabelich, who has This winter, in anticipation of the 1930 season, at fished on thi; coast for many vcars, will act as his nwn least three other concerns of Astoria. the Union Fisher captain and will flsh for th~ i:1rench Sardine Company men's Co-operative Packing Company, the Arthur An of Terminal .Island. The boat will be powered with a derson Fish Company and the Burke Packing Company, 340-h.p. \A/estern Enterprise Diesel engine anrl the are installing one complete line each to handle the new power for her turntable will be so arranged that she can sized tins. The Union Fishermen's Co-operative Pack seine from any quarter, according to Ivir. Gnularte. One ing Company plans to put up 20,000 cases of chinoc.iks, of the largest uf the combination fishing boats, she also according to ] . Angberg, supcrin tendent, in the quar will be fitted with bait wells for tuna fishing. ters. However, all u[ the packers are still uncertain of 'rom lvTosich. owner of the "Eight Hruthers", has the possibilities of this new demand in the quarters and ordered fur his boat a 270-h.p. Fairbanks-~Torse six are proceeding cautiously. cylinder Diesel engine of the new type, for the main engine and a 45-h.p. auxiliary. 'I'he new type engine does away with the combustion chambers and sprays the. fuel directly into the cylinders. It also is said tu Reduction Plant Rebuilt have low fuel consumption and extra power, with oil cooled pistoi1~, and outside scavenger cylinder. The I-IE PL1~NT OF THE Monterey Fish By-Products boat also will bt;! ~_quipped with a five-ton ice machine. T Co. at Seas1de, Caltf., has been rebmlt smce the The new 117-foot live-bait boat that AI Larson is to fire which destroyed it on November 20, 1929. The build for D. Tani and partners will be completed for new plant is now ready for operation, according to this summer's fishing. She will be powered by a 450- l\1. N. Schaefer, superintendent. h.p., five cylinder Fairbanks-1VIorse Diesel engine, and \Vith the installation· of a vacuum system in con will be one of the most modern of the fleet of high-sea fishermen. nection wi~h its gasoline extraction device the plant is now thoroughly modern and up-to-elate, larger than Of unusual design in the flrst place, which the build before and equipped to handle other materials than ers thus. far have not di'vulged to the public, she will fish and fish offal, :rdr. Schaefer said. have one of the most complete mechanical installations In fact the company will handle all kinds of material of any fishing boat on the southwest coast. Instead of out of which oil can be extracted and ultimately will one generator and generation off the main engine, the go into the vegetable oil as well as the a-nimal oil busi boat will have two 40-kilowatt Diesel generating sets, ness. and two pumps and everything else in the way of aux "\Vith the :Monterey breakwater pretty -.,veil assured iliary equipment, insuring that if one piece of machin and the possibility of landing raw material direct from ery develops that particular function can be carried on vessels at l\'1onterey, the plant expects to be busy the l)y its twin. The practice also will greatly lesson ·wear whole year regardless of the sardine season,'' l\'Ir. upon the machinery, as the generators and other de Schaefer announced. vices will be used alternately. A Baker ice machine The plant has been rebuilt with a view to overcom will be installed. ing fire hazards.-M. 0. Gay. JANUAHY, 1930 19 I West Coast Fisheries presents herewith the second installment I of FFV-the Encyclopedia of the fish, Fruit and Vegetable Industries of the West, which attracted favorable comment ~·· ··~ ~·· I throughout the industry on its inception in the New Year's I De Luxe Number.-Editor. I YEllOWFIN AND SKIPJACK I THEm JUNGE AND SEASONS IN I AliJERICAN AND CONTIGUOUS WATERS ELT,O\VFIN AND SKlPJACK are contem might get a little crazy myself-been so long since I Y poraneous in season, somewhat similar in I seen a albacore." quality, they swim together on the same banks Ext,ent of Local Grountl.'>. . . (often fraternizing .in large, mixed schools), and After canneries were bmlt m San D1ego. oper I jointly the:y contribute an annual tonnage to the ations there were extended to Oceanside, then to pack which dwarfs the total of all other tunas San Clemente Island and southward to the l\lex ~ combined. Indeed, at present they almost mo I ~ ican group called Los Coronados. I\Iarkct l1_;lat:s nopolize) the field-a fact not generally under "'~ already were adventuring as far south as Cabo I 1E stood because 1929 catch results ha\'C not yet be Colne-ft, but tuna did not abound plentifully much ... come widely known. helow Los Coronados, so that was estahlish{'d a:-; the original southern limit of the fishing. :! n gen I Introtlucing tlt.e Unclerstudy "" eral it can be. said that all of the water lymg be Q 'J'wenty years ago all of the tunas enjoyed prac tween San Die[)"o and Point Conception ·was tuna I - tical immunity fl·om molestation hy Caliornia ..., producing, but of cottr~e expe:ience soon .taugl~t ·~ fi~hermen. Ti1ey were a despised race-despised the boatmen that certc:un restnctecl spots 111 thts Q through ignorance of their intrinsic ·worth. Then I ;;,: large area were congregating points, and more came the discoverv of a mode to utilize albacore, thickly popnlated ·with the ftsh they ·were seek ~ and a large canning industry, based upon th:tt nne ing- than whole miles of open .sea thereabouts. I .:: fish, immediately arose. \Vhether from mcon 'il 'l'li,us it was that the east. end of Santa Catalina ~ siderate utilization of the resource or lor other rea t.r) 1slancl came to be recognized as the point of max sons, the albacore at last declined to commercial i_mum production for the live-bait .rigs out fc~r I ~ extin.ction, and canners were forced to turn to '" Yellnwfin. Skipjack always figured 111 these estt "';5 related fishes for material with ..which to satisfy mates, also. For this sort there were such known I their trade. Thus it happened that Yellowfin and areas of preference as that off Loma Po_int, and ~ ~ Skipjack were accorded a secondary welcome to around Santa Cruz Island. The two spec1es ·were ~ industry, and from that apologetic beginning they I ~ from a practical standpoint, grouped as a whole, ....~ have matured to a stature that makes pigmies of for although a differential in price always ob I competing kinds. tained the fishermen considered them as a nnit "'§ becau~e a boat equipped for. Yellowfin ii.shing ., Domestic Groruuls was fully prepared for skipjack should it encoun ~ I Originally no thought was gi\'en to distant sup ter schools of that sort instead of the more de ::z::" plies of cannery stock. All of the tuna, that con sired,. higher-priced variety. The same boats and I ~ ceivably could be used during many years to the same gear took them both. "' come was immediately at hand, just outside the Turtle Bay Grounds " harbor. In its inception, therefore, the fishery I "' By the time that the tuna packing tr~de h~d ex was rmrcly local, only close-in grounds being fre panded to exceed its local supply of. hsh, tt had qncnted by the crews. J\lany fishermen still in been discovered that extensrve schoolmg grounds I the port participated in those early small-boat lav along the coast of the state of Baja Califor operations. ni8., Thiexico, in the neighborhood of Turtle Bay. I '-'The east end of Catalina was the center of the This seemed a fortunate circumstance, the bluff fishing those dotys," one of them has said. "VVe and bleak shoreline of that peninsula being no I thought it a hardship if \Ve had to go farther than torious for the srrarcity of i t:s anchorages. On a twenty-five miles to find fish. I don't know what thousand miles of coast the only two harbors af I would have thought of a man who would have fording good protection are Turtle Bay and l\lag I told me than that in fifteen years I would be dalena Bav. going two thousand miles to get a load." Fleets of small boats scampe1·ed southward each I "\\Thv, I've cauD"ht skipJ'ack right outside the ~ b " summer, to spend the months of September, Oc breakwater-and albacore, too, for that matter, tober and November dodging in and out of Tur I another has declared. "Sometimes in the summer tle Bay, fishing when weather permitted, ''lying you could see the fish jumping out there from in" when it did not.* Large powered vessels were where you would be standing on the cannery I ---:c:;;pta.in J, Berntsen, of San Pedro recounts that the first year wharf. Imagine what a riot there would be· if that the "Turtle Bav fleet" went south, all of the boats were anything like that would happe,n now. Say! lialf recruited from San Die~o excepting only the "l\!abel LL.," which was from San Pedro. "1 he boats all ga.the:r:ed aro.und, Cerros (Isl:-.nd) the fleet would get sunk, all trying to get out of ;nul tbe San Benito;; (Is];wds) to do thetr fislung, he says, but they h;Hl to run in to 'l'urtle Bay for bait, and iN case of bad weather, I<'ish Harbor at once. Don't know but what I aud to meet the tenders that were sent down. 20 THE JVES1' COAST FISHERIES tion was a serious problem there, for the distan.ce tn canneries was more than twice as great; the 1 nearest supply hase for proYisions and repairs was I a thouand miles ::nvay. High Seas Fishing I American tuna-catching- operations have never been carried on with satisfaction from within I :rvfexican territory. Constant friction and a long tale of grievances ha\'e resulted. Cannery repre I sentatives have complained bitterly of lvhat they termed the inconsistency of l\lexican officials, pledges and agreements seemed to last no longer I than the conferences in which they were signed, packers regarded the high export and 11 exploita I tion" taxes exacted bv :MexiCo as unreasonable and exhorbitant, and, iri general, the business of at- I tempting to fish from I\.fexican shore stations '\vas shot full of difficulty and hard feeling. In 1927 several groups of fishermen pooled their I money and built the forerunners of our present fleet of hundred-foot fishing ships. These vessels '"'3 I 11) were outfitted with Diesel engines, tiley had ex Tuna fishing groundr. "~ nn the Southern Cali traordinary fuel capacity for long distance cruis I fornia and M e~c:ican ::r: ing, and were fitted with live bait tanks carrying 11) eoa!il5 ~ tons of water and hundreds of "scoops" of swim 11) I ming fry. Through these seagoing craft American " industry effected its emancipation from the tribute t system that had existed previously, for the big ... off-shore boats found it easy to run down the ~ commissioned as tenders tu carry the catch to coast to Baja California (keeping well outside the ;;" the canneries, and thus the foreiin fishing bttsi three-mile limit of national domain), and load ncss gained its start. up with tuna without paying anyone a cent for the ~;::.. Cabo San Lu.cas Grounds privilege. Great savings thus effected made the business exceedingly profitable, and as a result "~ Enterprising Americans were intent on finding an extensive campaign of boat-building com tn nthcr albacore stocks. A few belie\'ed that there " ~ menc.ed. In 1928 new launchings had swelled the N, might be a place somewhere to the south where "'Q fleet to considerable size, and every boat yard in ;. the high-priced Longfin could be found, and to test California was choked with hulls under construc that theory expeditions of discO\'ery were dis tion. By the end of 1929 the off-shore fleet con <;> patched. These found no albacore, but instead lo stituted the principle element in the industry, and ,... cated large schooling grounds of Yello1vfin and was alone responsible for the large size of the Skipjack** as far as the very soutnernmost tip of year's landings. ""e the JaneL Cabo San Lucas the place is called, and .., it has supported an important fishery ever since. High Seas Grounds -.., Strangely enough, at the ''Cape" the tunas rc~ Ffigh seas vessels do not operate close to home. fused to be tempted by bait. However, fishermen 1 J'hey leave such paltry pickings as remain from "'~ soon discovered that the fish seemed quite· un the former large local fishery to such small craft as =;::.. wary and could be caught with purse-seine gear. still are satisfied to expend time on it. The new 1\ t no other place on the coast is this possible ships run south, frequenting different locations "~ it is another weird fluke of disposition which the at different periods. fishermen merely attribute to tuna temperament, During late summer-the season during which and let it go at that. shore-station activities are conducted there-the Tender sen·icc, such as was instituted at Tur cruisers gather off Turtle Bay. There they come tle l~ay, ·was extended to the "'Cape." Transporta- into direct competition with the small rigs (1\{ex *""l\·e ~een more Skipjack at the "Cape" than I've en~r seen at ican-tax payers) that come out from the co<·er of :llly other p!acL'--but not the last few years. They seem to have been o;cared away lately"; Captain J. Berntsen, hcfore quoted'. land to do daylight work. The Diesel ships have "I have run through ~olid schools of Ski/Jjaek for a half lwur at the ad\rantage from several standpoints, and al a time uff Cabo San Lazaro--which is a.mut two hundred miles north of Ca.ho San Lut~ts," says Captain l\L Botich, master of the ways obtain their share of whatever IS to be had. "Gloria R." "Often thcv won't bite. Thev will follow tile boat you can see them by lliousands in the bluC water-but they won't During midsummer of 1929 large masses of take either lh·e hait or jigs. 1 have even known them to cat chum fish were encountered off I\Iagclalena Bay. Re when refusing to take a hook, Some of these schools were large enough to g-ive a load to even· ''esse] in the fleet. turning vessels reported that forty high seas ships "\Vhen thev are hungrv thCv will st.art hitting the jigs, 'l'hen we stop and Chum them dose ai-ound the boat. Sometimes everything were working on the schools, the flotilla extending ll'ill go well for five or ten minutes, and the fish wil! be coming in a blockade line from the three-mire limit to al ahoar(l ~o fast th: *~~Although the high seas hait-hoats do uot attempt to opcratt• season, or to t-emain anotl)er iortnight. close to land at Cabo San Lucas tllt:~- do frequent the mo-re off-shore Gorda llank ("Cabo San Lucas Rank') which lies twelve to thirty-live l V. High Seas Ships miles. from the "Cape." Both Yellnwfin and Skipjack ahounll then:, in separate schools and in mixed. ("Live-bait operators exclnsn'ely·l Bcrntseu states that the Ycllowfin caught at the "Cape" r;mge in site from ten pounds each to two hundred and fiitv pounds ... l~aeh Chidly a summer fishery, but rapidly he si~c sehunls by itself, ho.·wevcr, although Skipjacl:- may he foumi 1uixrd with all of the mcrlium and smaller sizes. coming a year-ronnel activity.-G.H..C. 22 THE WEST COAST JIISllERIES MACKEREl CALIFORNIA PACKING CORP. J\IAJN OFFICE: 101 California St., San Fran California cisco, Calif. OFFICERS: R. I. Bentley, president; R. N. Barthold, general sales director; Roy L. Pratt, sales manager, A G-uitlt~ to the Cmuwd canned foods. of Plants, Officers mul BRANDS: Fillets of 1Iackerel-"De11{onte," "Gold Bar." PL,ANTS: Terminal Islantl, and San Diegn, Calif. COHN-HOPKINS, INC. WESTGATE SEA PRODUCTS CO. l\lAJ N OF.FICE: Foot of Crosby St., San Diego, MAIN OFFICE: 2412 Belt St., San Diego. Calif. Calif. OFFICERS: \V. V. Ambrose, president; Paul H. Steele, OFFICERS: A. ]. Cohn, president; ]. C. \Vond, sales sales manager. ' manager. BRAND: "V·lestgate." BRANDS: ''Valencia," "\Varranly," "Our Quality." PLANT: San Diego, Calif. PLANT: San Diego, Calif. COAST FISHING CO. TUNA J\IAIN OFFICE: 'Wilmington, Calif. CALIFORNIA PACKING CORP. OFFICERS: S. R. Hornstein, president; J. R. Biven, sales manager. , MAIN OFFICE: 101 California St., San Fran BH..ANDS: 't1-Iount Ray," "Bamhoo," "Treasure," "Coast, cisco, Calif. "Lnckv Strike." PLANTS: Terminal Island and San Diego, Calif. PLANT·: \Vilmington, Calif. COHN-HOPKINS, INC. FRANCO-ITALIAN PACKING CO., INC. MAIN OFFICE: Foot of Crosby St., San Diego, J\TAIN OFFICE: Terminal Island, Calif. Calif. OFFICERS: Jos. 1vf. iviardesich, president; Ed. 1L OT•FICERS: A. J. Cohn, president; J, C. \Vood, sales Burch, sales manager. manager. BRAND: "Franco." BRANDS: "VVhite Rock," "Sun Harbor," "Golrlen PLANT: Terminal Island, Calf. Strand," "\Vhite Seal," "Our Quality." FRENCH SARDINE CO., INC. PLANT: San Diego, Calif. i\IAIN OFFICE: 'J.'erminal Island, Calif. COAST FISHING CO. OFFICERS: 1-L ]. Bngtlanovich, president; Ed. A. Hoyt, MAIN OFFJ CE: Wilmington, Calif. sales manager. OFFICERS: S. R. Hornstein, president; J. R. Biyen, BHANDS: "Eat-well," "1-fessina"; Tonno-"Messina," sales manager. ''Hubidoux." BRANDS: "Treasure," "Coast," "lvlermaid Supreme," PLANT: T'erminal Island, Calif. "Abbey," "Lucky Strike," "Bilttnorc," "Navarro," "La Costa." GENERAL FISHERIES CORP. PLANT: Vt/ilmington, Calif. J\JAIN OFFICE: San Pedro, Calif. OFFICERS: N. ]. Kuglis, president. FRANCO-ITALIAN PACKING CO., INC. BRANDS: "Salomar." i\IAIN OFFICE: Terminal Island, Calii. PLANT: San Pedro, Calif. OFFICERS: Jns. lvi. lvfardesich, president; Ed. M. Burch, sales manager. HALFHILL PACKING CORP., INC. PLANT: Terminal Island, Calif. l\IAIN OFFICE: Long- Beach, Calif. OFFICERS: H. J, Halfhill, president anrl sales manager; FRENCH SARDINE CO., INC. Chas. P. Halfhill, general manager. 1\tAIN OFFICE: Terminal Island, Calii. BRAND: "Bestbuy." OFFICERS: 1-L J. Bogdanovich, president; Ed. A. Hoyt, PLANT: Long Beach, Calif. sales manager. BHANDS: "Belle Isle," "Blue Banner." HOVDEN (K.) CO. PLANT: Terminal Island, Calif. l\IAJN Ol~FlCE: J\lonterev, Calif. OF'J ](0.:\r among all that California -tuna family of the neighboring- ]\epuhlic. For this reason the F of eccentrics. Bluefi.n should probably he bluefin ilshery, and its attendent canning industry. chosen as meriting- the paln1 fur unfathonwble de are totally American, and unique in this resect. portment and oddities in disposition. J n our al Point Conception marks the highest latitude most total ig·nurancc of its life, most of its reached bv the Bluefin in his yearLv itineran- oi observed traits seem mutually unameniahle~ travel. H.. arely are schools of the~ species Seen almost contradictory--and the little that we see even that far up-coast. In times when this tuna of them suggesth deep and unguessed mysteries was first being exploited,- the focal point of its rather than spelling anything cogent to the ter abundance was considered to be the channel be restial mind. tween the mainlanct' and Santa Catalina Island. Bluefin is the first of the exotic mackerels to in Oceanside and San Clemente ISland banks Jike vade California waters each \'ear. It is the ad wise contributing. Of late years-especially dur vance guard of all the host to ~follow. Its first ap ing the marked decline in catch experienced in pearance is a signal for wide preparation in a var 1928. and the even greater subsidence in .1929- iet\' of different tuna operations-the starting- gun the bulk of what fish was caught came from the of ~a great canipaign. '""' c "Thirty-J\lile Bank" before mentioned. Ninety First sight of the schools usually is had in I\lay. percent of these ranged between ,eighteen and Often within a ·week thereafter the main budv of thirty pounds in weight, according to the boat the migratory millions will have approached r;nd, men. ancl (at least as recently as 1926 and 1927), per sons asj1ore, on Dana Point, on the promontories of Identifying Clwraclerislics Santa Catalina lsland, or stationed on any of the It is not the purpose of this account to treat of other numerous bluffs and vantages affording a the Bluefin beyond describing his seasonal appear sweeping view of the :Pacific, could spot acres of ance and geographic range, hut the writer shal1 feeding tuna, chasing "bait" through the visible exceed the bonds of his topic that he may fix the deeps of the indigo sea. identitv of this remarkable fish in the minds of To the B1uef1n time must· seem valuable. .He reader~ fur whom the subject is unfamiliar. It arrives early, hurries about llis affairs for a few may be enough to say that the Bluefin is the 11 wed\:s, then hurriedly tleparts. As he was first to world-famous Leaping Tuna", worthy antagonist come, so is he ii.rst to leaYe, abandoning the com~ of light-tackle sport fishermen. Although far less 111011 rendevous at a time \\'hen it is teeming \Vith elongate than others of its tribe, the Bluefin excels his kin. at jumping. lle shoots from the sea in long, arched }{e is precipitous, with the purposeful air of a curvings, to the shame of whale or porpoise. Often business man in his doings. As if having an im the schools can be seen plunging along, the in portant engagement off Hong .Kong, or perhaps dividuals leaping from the wa\·es in rainbow-like among the islands of Polynesia, he suddenly quits tangents,t. each tuna intent on the business of the California g-athering-b:rround and, by the end overtaking and eating the pilchard or flying-fish of October has- entirely disappeared into the un seen fleeing only a jump before him. On other known from which he came. occasions similar exhibitions are seen, but without the evident incentive of the pursuit of food: 'rhe J<'ishermen expect the first hluefin showing-s on big mackerels then seem only to iJe playing and the "Thirty-J\lile Bank'', a schooling g-round ex sporting about, without other apparent object than tending from fifteen to forty miles \VS\V from tn make holiday,, or to tn.tin for the aerial hurdling Point Lama, San Diego. 'l'hus, normally, the of the next communal hunt. southern po.rt and its fleet enjoys the initial har "Because he excels in jumping, fishermen of vest. However, many visiting craft, that have logical mind have deducted that the Biuefin is the yoyagecl southward for that express purpose, hungriest and most instatiablv raYenous of all participate. tunas-that his abilities in this respect <;tre the Hut as all tunas arc confirmed disrupters of eYolved result of the demands of an e\·er-hungry rule.-;, so the Hluefin is inconstant in habit. and in stomach. 'rhis conclusion is disturbed, howe,~er, limes past has side-stepped and neatly evaded CJl hy the fact that of all his family the Bluefin is suf- tire Hotil]as that han~ expectantly assembled on 1iciently wiley to recognize the fraud emhndiecl in the ''Thirty-J\·1 ile Bank" in anticipation uf his a whale-bone jig, and to resist seduction through coming. This occurred as recently as 1928, when appetite except by a living lure. On the other the schooLs failed tu show on San Diego gt+ottnds; hand, and as if belying so much sagacitv, he alone instead, the tide set in rlirectlv at Santa Catalina is silly enough tu permit himself tO be -trapped in Island, later extending; to all a+crustomed areas. an encircling- seine, and so dragged uncere Commercial production of the species does not moniously tn market. It can further he said that extend south of Punta Descanso, on the l\lcxican although+ arri,·ing- in multitudes he inhabits the coast-a distance south of the International Buun must resLt·icted area of any of the triiJe during the darv almost too short to warrant mention. J\Tore brief period of his stay, and, finally, although he n\·e~+' \\'hatever fares are taken in the extreme end braves cold water by being the ilrst northward ni the range are creditable to high seas fishing, ships runs south, frequenting difierent locations lll'ing· captured beyond the territorial jurisdiction fall, and takes early leave.-G ..R. C. ]ANVAHY, 1930 25 ALBACORE ITS JUNGE AND Sl':ASON IN DOMESTIC IVATEHS''' OF THE WESTERN AMERICAN COAST LlL\CC)l\E 1\LWAYS RECElVES 11rst con then, are they ne\·er seen to southward ?-indeed, A sideration in any discussion of the tunas. never seen at all until, suddenly, they arc sighted 1rhi,s is because its superb quality and great scar off Los Coronados Islands, or under the guns of city endow h. with extraordinary value, and be old Point Loma's high rock? One might suppose cause historically it antedates all flthers, having that the fish would "work the beach" (as coast been the original fish upon which the tuna indus wise mariners say) from the equator to Califor try was founded. nia-if thev come from that distance-but such is not the ~ase. Apparently they strike the shore A Tartly Comer from some well-defined ocean highway which they Albacore is not first to arrive in that series of travel hy instinct, or perhaps by following cer successive migrations which the four families of tain currents of tepid tetnJ1erature. They reach pelagic tunas effect as an annual spnngtime event land exactly where the American-l\{exican bottn on the southern coast of California-or, at least, dary separates those two republics, and then fol so used to do. It makes its clashing appearance low the coast northwestward a hundred miles or unly after another of its relatives already is pres more, later to vanish again.** ent on the summer feecling-grtmnds. But, never theless, up to five years ago it was literally true A Deliberal,e Exit that the coming' of the .Long Fin marked the start But the autumnal waning- nf the fishery is hy o{. the tuna season, and unquestionably this still no means as sudden and complete as is its star would be true were it not for the unhappy fact tling commencement. Although beginning with that the albacore recently his disappeared almost a hurrah and a rush each season declines towards completely, domestic production of this. variety conclusion with a tapering oH or diminuendo like having dwindled to a point where it no longer the expiring wail ~f an inflated toy pig. Even in merits consideration even as a minor cannery November-and once or twice a;;; late as Thanks stock. Therefore, in writing the story of Inc~~! giving-persevering boatmen have gone out with albacore fishing one is describing an activity not liYc-bait and jigs to return with fares that were nnw extant, but which (everyone hopes), may seized on at a premium. Of all the transcient presently experience a recommencement through tunas the albacore is most ln11the to depart Cali the long-awaited return of the flsh. fornia waters; its disinclination in this regard has laid it open to long attack, which may he one of Cmnes Ont of the Sortt.h several causes contributing to the apparent dec The Scomhroid or mackerel-like fishes, of -..vhich imation of this excellent and esteemed species. more than fifteen separate ·species throng the ocean waters of North Anlerica alone, seem to Extreme Range favor a warm or even tropical habitat, especially Coastal areas frequented by the albacore arc during the winter months of the year. l\Iany sharply restricted in extent. 'J'o southward the manifest decided preference for equatorial lati extreme limit of commercial abundance is Punta tudes, adYenturing into the higher and more chill Descanso, the first headland that makes out from areas only as the summer sm1, northward-bound 1\lcxican territory. In times past sporadic catches during lengthening clays, heats t11e cold depths have been reported from Punta Sal Si Puedes, the to inviting temperatures, and lures the tropic wan next point south, and incidental takes bave been derers into ;;;trange and unaccustomed seas. made even off Punta Banda and Las Isles de To dos Santos, both just below the :0.-J exican coast Arrives in JU!le town of Ensenada. During the summer of 1929 Ordinarily Tune is the time -.,yhen t'conting fish one lone specimen was repOrted captured on a jig ermen, crulsi"ng about between San Diegc~ anrl somewhere near San Onentin Bav or San J\1artin Ensenada (Bafa California, J\Jcxico), first decry \'slancl. Could this haj';pening be ~\'erilicd it would swift-swimming schools of Long Fin slicing up probably establish a record for the dispersion of lhe ocean's surface, leaping and spla;;;hing and the species. blackening 'the waves in their massed attack on flying fish, anchovies and sardines. \Vnrd quickly Strictly Locl!l spreads along the length of the coast-"The alba From a practical standpoint, in speaking gen core haYe come! Two tons were landed yester erally, the fishery is entirely American, and ex day at San Diego. Big fish, they say!" ..:'-\.nd the tends from San Diego northward. Anciently season is on! (meaning during the days of the priestinc magni ficance oi this fishery, only five or stx years ago), Where Are They Front? *The foreign fisheries (Japanese anJ Hawaiian) for albacore: will Now for an enigma: Invariably the first show he made the subject of a later writing. ings of Long Fin are somewhere in the Yicinity **A -parallel instance is that nf another of the Scomhroirb--the so·called "Boston" (Atlantic) mackerel. During its yearly eycle it of San Diego; thereafter, throughout the remain Jirst makes the shore of Cap(~ l\fay, Virginia, whenn: it Jlrncceds up·coast until arriving at a point. in the Atlantic off Nova Scotia and der of the season, the schools migrate contintt south of Newfoundland. l•rum thi.'i schlu11ing area the Hsh mm·r· onsly northward. It is. considered, therefore, that Routhwarrl agai11 ••1nrl are lost In sight ;tt ~ca, not to be SC't'll agilin 11ntil the commt'll!Tmeul nf the next ~easml'~ migratiuu. :Mackerel, the fish arc engaged in an up-coast jottrnc_y. -\Vhy, ge~icrally, exhihit the trait of winter dlsaflpcaranec. 26 THE WEST COAST l?ISHERIES ·the great concentration of activity centered 1n Fish singularly prodtKti,·e regwn for a yaricty of fish I-Iarbor, San Pedro. I,...ong rows nf uncommis eries products. sioned and almost useless boats now lie ranked together in out-of-the-way corners of the cannery N ortluvflrfl Lirnit bight and in the various· inshore channels of th.c I-1ew boats ever cruised farther from port than Sa~n Pedro and Long Beach harhor system-obso Santa Rosa Island and San IVIiguel Island-the up lete craft,. left without worth whel1 their resom~ce, per outposts of the widely dispersed Santa Bar the albacore failed to return. As recently as 1925 bara archipeligo. The practical boundary of the this fleet provided the major tuna catch of the commercial field is conceded to be Point Concep port; its feverish activity enlivened the fish-qnay, tion. That bad-weather headland marks. in g-En and the profits it produced reflected l1rospcrity in eral, the division of warm-water fish frOm ~-Old thousands of happy and assorted faces-American, water kinds, the cleaveage being such as to aston Scandinavian, Russian, Italian, Slavonian and Jap ish anyone not previously conver-sant with the anese. The roseate colorings of the Long Fin's facts. Above water, the weather on the two op sides constituted, indeed, the foot of the rainbow posite sides of the head is entirely dissimilar, and for many a fisherman's family (not to remark upon if sub-aqueous conditions are equally unlike, there those who lived from associated activities), and it is no room to wonder that tropical and sub-tropi can be stated ·with certainty that the collective cal fishes turn back shivering from the frigidity so.ck of the ind:1stry was more liberally stocked that meets one as he rounds that fog-faced and w1th albacore-com than with ~111\r other-this heiniY wind-cuffed jutting of rock. emphatically and especially tr{Jc with the small=. I-::Towever, in this regard the alhacnrc exhibit hoat men. another idiosyncracy in makeup which renders them still the more unaccountable. On se\'eral Santa Catalina Island Grountls occasions-notably in September of 1925-heavy San Pedro \Vas the rendevuus or the jig-fleet. runs of Sword Fin occurred off :J\Ionterey. A fe\~r Being little boats, gasoline pcnvered, these could casuals also have been taken to port through the not venture far nor stay at sea except when condi Golden Gate, and every autumn halibut fishermen tions were fair. For the most part they confined in the north, operating with herring-baited long operations to the prolific waters lying around line gear off the Oregon and \Vashington coasts, Santa Catilina Island. Commercial jig-men there come jubilantly into ·port with incidental catches mingled with sportsmen who came out from shore of the Californifl aristocrat. In 1929 there were in small motored rigs, all angling together for the flccurrcnces of this sort at Coos Bay (1\'.Iarshfield, tasty King of the trunas . Oregon) and at Astoria. The specimens were said ., Secondary areas included the grounds, lying uff Lo be of spendid appearance and fat-which last Santa Barbara .Island and San Nicholas Island, circumstance may tend to explaiJiJ their ability to these being seaward banks, at considerable dis endure what ;ue supposed to be lower tempera tances offshore. l<'inally, the Santa Cruz Island tures than prevail in the waters where the species precinct yielded richly .. ihat always having been a schools most abundantly.-G.R.C. JANUARY, 1930 27 Mexico Announces Diego, \vill greatly increase her cruis from N orwa.y at once, to be equipped Anchorage Fee lncr'ease ing radius, it is reported. The craft re with whaling reduction machinery. An increase of $100 in the bait and an ceived new bait tanks and additional sup Three killer boats will comprise the chorage permit fee accorded live-bait ply space, enabling her to cruise 12,000 fleet for which the tanker will act as fac boats by ·Mexico is announced from Mex miles. Capt. E. W. Cullen is the skipper tory boat and mother ship. The killers ico City. This means that all boats se of the "Glenn Mayne." "Clemente" and "Barbara" were sold to curing the permit will be forced to pay * * * Bryde at recent auction and the uColum this amount over and above whatever is New Srvortlfish Boat bus" was acquired when the Norwegian charged on the basis of the tonnage of Tal;es to llw Jr7 ater owned 1Iexican VVhaling Company suf the craft, according to those in close fered a disastrous whaling season off touch with the Mexican situation. A variation in the conventional type of Lower California, sending its fleet home The increase was ordered by 1\'fexico fishing vessel, a combined swordfish and and, it is expected, never to return. ' City officials who declared that the rate tuna boat, slid down the ways at Rask's It is believed likely that the new fleet per tonnage was insufficient, and is ef .shipyard, San Diego, recently, and soon ·will be off for the whaling grounds near fective as of January 1, 1930. will be in commission. 1v1agdalena Bay by the middle of March. Another ruling at the first of the year The new vessel is the "1\lassachusetts," The California Sea Products Company permits shipment of goods to Mexico built for Frank E. Brown & Sons. In of San Francisco also is expected to whale without the former consular vouchers and fact, it wilt be "Brown & Sons" literally off Lower California again this spring pre-payment of duty. All required now when she puts to sea, for the elder Mr. and summer and off San Clemente Island arc four commercial invoices and payment Brown will be skipper and his sons will in the fall. of the duty at the port of destination. make up the crew. The new vessel will be used for swordfish and for tuna work, * * * * * • being smaller than the tuna clippers of ••s. Brothers" New 0 fficial at toda;y, to be more easily maneuvered De.slroyetl by Fire San Pedro when going after swordfish. She is 56 The "S. Brothers" abalone b_oat flshing Geo. Aldrete has been transferred from feet long, with a beam of 13 feet eight for the San Francisco International Fish San Diego to San Pedro to take charge inches and a draft of six feet eight inches. Company, burned to the water's edge on of the Mexican fish and ganfe commis A 70-horsepower Atlas-Imperial Diesel December 19, the eighth casualty so far sion there, replacing Juan Suarez, who engine will provide the power. Cruising this season. The conflagration took place was transferred back to San Diego, it is radius will be around 2000 miles. just off the Dei :Monte bathhouse, at announced. * * ,.-. 1vfonterey. * * * Three men were se\'erelv burnt..-D Kan "Princess" Gets Jrllzalers to Operate this Spring suka Shiroyama, Toshita- Tenchi;a and 'Four Swordji11·h Sunuki Sarcasta. They were all treated The swordfish boat "Princess," Capt. Another whaling fleet will operate out at a hospital. Shiroyana was unable to Tony M'ello, arrived in San Diego last of San Pedro, Calif., this spring, accord leave his bed. Tenchiya \Vas still at the month with four large swordfish, an un ing to announcement by Capt. Bryde, hospital late in December. and Sarcasta usual catch as all the swordfish boats president of G. M. Bryde & Co. Capt. was able to leave after firs.t aid had been have ceased operations for the season Brydc announces that he has acquired a administered. The loss of the boat is es thinking it was impossible to harpoOI; 4000-ton tanker to be dispatched here t: mated at $12,000. any swordfish until 11ext spring. Capt. Mello hopes to be able to bring in two or three s\vordfish each trip, and inasmuch as they are worth 25 cents per pound to the fishermen, they are worth looking for. Capt. Mello does not depend entirely on swordfish, however, as his boat is rig ged up for almost any kind of fishing his last trip including approximately ~ ton of rock cod in addition to the sword- fish. · * * * Jf! catlwr l(ecps Crervs Aslwre High seas and a stiff gale outside lvion terey Bay kept the 1Ionterey fishing fleet tied up for a short time about the first of the year. A few of the purse-seiners started out but had to come back. \Vith the full moon coming abottt the time the storm should blmv over, fishermen were not vef}' optimistic for 'the present month. The sardine seaSon ends at :,\Iontercv on February 15. ~ * * * "Glenn i'tfayne" to Cruist~ Further Alterations recently under way on the "Glenn Mayne" largest of the Southern California live-bait tuna fleet, at the ConstJ;llction under way on a new 55-footer for V. Tasso, at the Cooper & Schmidt boat building Campbell :Machine Company yard at San yard at San Diego 28 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES GOSSIP OF THE SAN DIEGO FLE By H. DUKINFIELD HE American Fishermen's Protec parently heating on the stoYe, Chris. Lar Ji essels Slwve off T th·e Association has had a narro,w son, owner of the fishing boat "Hardy," escape from the necessity pf securing an was found dead recentlv in his home at Practically all of the 'vessels compris other president. Fred Schellin, the present 1995 Bayfront street. ''rhe unusual half in the San Diego tuna fleet have p'ut out head of the organization, ·with 11rs. upright position of the body indicated to sea during the past week, after spend Schellin, while driving home Sunday that death overtook him ·while heating ing the Yuletide holidays in port. ~,fhere night, the 5th, in the rain, missed the the >vater on the stove. His head had arc still a few, however, remaining, hav payement on Pershing Drive enough to ing overstayed their cruises and arriving get two· ·wheels into the soft mud. Ht! much later than the rest, SOI~te of which immediately applied his brakes >vhich are undergong minor repairs in the ship probably accounts for his living today to yards. As most of the vessels left about tell the story. The wheels continued to "'\.the same time, the month of January will sink, however, with the result that the be light for the tuna canneries as but few car turned over sidewaYs and rolled down are expected back before the month etids. a 40-foot bank. The- lights of an ap proaching car, together with the rain drops on the windshield, were responsi Full Load in Four Days ble .for Fred's missing the roadway. For The new tuna boat "Sao J oao'' arrived tunately, between 1lr. Schellin, Mrs. on the 11th with an unusuallv big load Schellin and the car, the latter suffered of tuna. The boat left here On the 4th most in the mishap. ?\Jr. and 1Irs. and had proceeded but a short distance Schellin ·were badly shaken up, cut and when a school of tuna was encountered. bruised, but not seriouslY. Most of the In less than four days a fuU load had car, however, will han io be rebuilt. been taken aboard, which enabled the ship to return home after being out bitt eight days. Frauh Goulart Dies Frank Goulart, one of San Diego's pio neer Portuguese fishermen, died on the Storm Creates Havoc 7th after a prolonged illness. He had been The recent storm created considerable a resident of San Diego for 45 vcars, havoc in San Diego bay. The vessel "Glen coming here from the Azores whe-re he H. DUKINFIELD Mayne/' which was tied up at the Camp was born. He ·was 75 years old, and has bell shipyards undergoing the installation followed the sea as a fisherman until he fallen forward onto the stove, while his of new bait tanks, broke her moorings retired a short time ago. He is survived feet failed to leave the floor. Larson, and went adrift. The Star and Crescent by his widow and two daughters. according to his friends, had been stung tug "Cayumaca" picked her up and towed on the hand by .:t fish recently, and it is her to safe anchorage. The pipeline at tached to the big dredge which has been "ltsu A" Burns belieyed he was preparing tu wash the wound ·when he ·was stricken. working here for a considerable time The gas hoat "Itsu A," fishing for the filling in Lindbergh Field, broke loose \\restgate Sea Products Co., is reported and crashed into a number of small fish burned off the Lower California coast. How About a Scooter ing vessels, doing considerable damage. Details of the loss at this time are not The fishing boat "Jennie," owned by S. available. Eddie Ghio, the -..vell known fayorite Sardo, was badlv bruised and has been of the ladies who visit the vicinitv of the placed on the w-ays of the General 1.fa fresh fish markets on Harbor street, rises chine \Vorks for repairs. Completing. "lJ!assuclwsetts" to say if they expect ·him to make many trips between the new fishermen's wharf The Diesel vessel "1fassachusetts," and the fresh fish dock they will have to Flumes Hit Jf'lwrf now completing at the Rask shipyards, get him a bicycle or a pair of roller is to be a combined tuna. and swordfish skates, as he is wearing- out enough shoe Flames fanned by a high wind swept boat, and >vill carry a crew of eight men. leather now. On second thought, how through the Star and Crescent ferry It is being constructed in accordance ever, he says he may delegate the travel -..vharf at the foot of Broadway recently with the design of 1v1r. Brown, the mvn ing to "Barracuda Pete," who is a lovely and did a very considerable amount .of er, himself, who came here recently from dancer and ought to make a good pe damage: before it was extinguished. The the state after which it is named. It is destrian. blaze is believ·ed to have started in the 56 feet in length, beam 13 feet 8 inches, ice machine room in the rear of the res draft 6 feet 8 inches, and ·will be powered taurant and lunch room lqcated on the with an Atlas Imperial Diesel engine of Lay Keel /or 56-Footer wharf. \Vhen the fire department ar 70 horsepower. It is expected to have a The keel is being laid at the General rived on the scene the entire second floor cruising radius of approximately 2,000 1Iarine \Vorks at the foot of !Yy street of the building was ablaze, flames roar miles. for a 56-foot tuna fishing and swordfish ing from every -..vindow. The wharf of boat for :LJ. Nunes who recently lost his fice was but slightly 'damaged, while the vessel, the "\Vestern S," by fire off restaurant and cigar stand suffered con Building "Alert" Oceanside. The new boat ·will be pmY siderably from smoke and -..vater, and Ar Rapid progress is being made by the ered by a 70-horsepower Atlas Imperial thur \V. Ponsford, publicity manager for San Diego 1{arine Construction Co. on Diesel engine, and is expected to be ready the Star and Crescent companies, suf the new vessel "Alert," under construc for its trial trip early in ),.J arch. fered irreparable loss. His office was lo~ tion for T. Abe and H. Fukuno. This cated where the fire was most damaging vessel, which is to be of the raised deck and his prized collection of fishing boat type, will embody all the latest features Busalacchi Dies photographs and other waterfront data was entirely destroyed and will probably known to modern fishing boat construc San Diego's waterfront is mourning the tion. It will be used in the tuna fishing recent death of 1Jariano Busalacchi, fol never be replaced. Captain Hall an industry for the Van Camp cannery. lowing development of pneumonia after nounces that reconstruction and repair what at first appeared to be a trifling ill wmk will be undertaken immediately. ness. Busalacchi has been employed· for Stung By Fish, Dies Iii the 11ast two years as bait spotter on the Big New Tuna Bout Standng up ·with his head slumped fo!' launch "Fortuna." l--le is surviYed bY his ward into a wash basin which he was ap- -.,..,.idow and four children. - Contract has been let to the Campbell JANUARY, 1930 29 }fachinc \Vorks for the construction of STANDARD SEINER ORDERED a 116-foot tuna _vessel for J. Jose, owner of the vessel ''Lisboa." The \Vestgate A standard type of purse-seiner for Sea Products Co. arc financing the deal, use in the Siberian salmon fisherv has and the vessel ·will fish for that concern been designed by H. C. Hanson o( Seat aftt.::r it l1as been placed in commission. tle, \Vash., for the Kamchatka Company, Ltd., Vladivostok, Siberia. The boat is Lobster Situation Improving said to contain many departures from The lobster situation is improving-. At the conventional seine boat. the beginning of the season it looked like Her dimensions arc 70 feet by 18 feet the market was- going to be heavily over hy 7 feet and she is designed to log nine loaded,· and the. lobster boats were stopped The new Fullen No. 701, type "L" Marine miles, with a 100 h.p. Fairbanks-Morse for from hv;o to three "\\'ceks in order to Diesel Engine two-cycle Piesel engine. Accommoda enable the "dcp.lers to dispose of an al tions are 111ade for a crew of eight men. ready heavy stock. Since that time, The hold ·will carrv 60 tons of fish and heavy >Veather has set in and a great provi~-wn is made for 1,500 gallods of many of the camps have lost a COI1sid New Diesel Out fuel oil and 1,000 gallons of fr.esh >Yater. erable amount of their gear, which has Two of the vessels will be built at Vbcli resulted in very light deliveries. Indi J. ill. Tees of San Fr(lncisco Annouces Yostok in time for the 1930 salmon fish cations now point to a decided shortage ing sc·ason this spring. as the season has but two more months New Fulton Engines to go, and prices arc likelv to risf'.. J. 111. Tees, president of the 1Iachinery Exporters, Ltd., of San Francisco, Pa JIM PASCHALL GUS NORDLUND cific Coast. representatiyes of many man ufacturers, including the Fulton lron \Vorks Company, manufacturer of Fulton LONG BEACH Diesel engines, announces that lhe St. Louis manufacturer has produced a new BOAT BUILDING Parke & Kibele, Inc. marine engine especially designed for heavy duty commercial service such as COMPANY Superior Service for fishing. Fishing Boats The maker of this announcement is Designers and Builders of one of the important figures in the machinery sales world, working through Commercial Cmft Dry Dock and Repair dealers all along the \Vest Coast and ex ancl Y acll!s porting machinery to foreign countries Specialists bordering on the Pacific. 1Ir. Tees is REPAIR WORK the man that a lot of disgruntled }dah ] ongg players ·would haYe liked to get 17 61 Water St. Long Beach their hands on a few years ago. He is Phone Long Beach 659330 Day and Night Service credited >vith having introduced the game in the United States, and it is interesting Main Shops at to note that soon after Mr. Tees disas sociated himself with the distribution of the Chinese game its popularity waned Berth 94, San Pedro and its name is rarely eyer heard today. J. R Upjohn R T. Upjohn 1Ir. Tees is one of the oldest and best Branch Marine Ways knmvn importers and exporter;; in San and Shops Accommodating Craft Francisco. He was born in Philadelphia Protane Bottled Gas up to 1000 tons at of a family- that W<-ls engaged in ship building for a century and was raised in Company Berth 160, Wilmington the atmosphere of ships and machinery. According to Mr. Tees, the ne·w Ful FISHERMEN'S WHARF ton Diesel is the result of successful Agents for engine construction since 1852 by the company. Three Fulton Diesels of 1150- Hunt-Spiller Gunmetal Iron h.p. each are in usc at the Lankershim plant of the Los Angeles water works. for piston rings and cylinder P. 0. Box 1744 liners for Diesel Engines. The new marine engine employs the four cycle principle and is equipped Phone Main 1477 with mechanical fuel injection of the most Phones San Pedro 2790-2791 advanced type. All pumps and controls SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA are located on the forward end just be low the control mechanism allowing the operator complete control and check of his engine from one point. H. K. Shocltey, Prop. BASK. NEW ALASKA PACKERS Shipbuildii:ng Co. TENDER Shockey Boiler Furnishes a Com.plete Service A new 82-foot cannery tender is being Works BOAT SHOPS built for the Alaska Packers' Association WORK BOATS by \Vm. Cryer & Son of East Oakland. REPAIR WORK FUEL OIL TANKS MARINE RAILWAYS Two 135-h.p. Atlas-Imperial Diesel en MACHINE SHOPS Also Fish Coolwrs MARINE SUPPLIES gines will provide the power and are ex GAS ENGINES pected to pro(luce 10 knots. for tire Canning Trade NAVAL ARCHITECT nnd DESIGNER On April 1 the craft is to be delivered and depart immediately ior Alaskan 125 Market Street FOOT OF GRAPE STREET -.,yaters, tn be stationed with the main SAN DIEGO, CALIF. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA portion of the association's fleet in the Phone Main 4448 southeastern section. 30 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES try to run a pump with a five horsepower calities, thus forcing the native and 1~cal Electricity on Boats motor, that they would not attempt to fishermen out of their own ,fishing run with a ten horsepower gas engine. ground. This should be borne in mind. You can· The 'new vessel, ·which is 490 feet Ideal Way of Handling Auxiliaries not increase power with the use of I110- over all, will be stationed in the FaL'>L is Through Eleclridty tors. lf you have a thirty horsepower Pass district of the Alaskan peninsula. engine driving a generator ·which in turn Power -.,.yill be furnished by a 50-h.p. is running motors, you cannot figure Atlas-Imperial Diesel. Two fuel tanks Article VII more than about twenty horsepower of By R. H. GALVAN will give a capacity of 600 gallons.· The continuous motor operation. boat will be delivered some time ·next This article will deal with the use of For peak loads you can run nearly up munth. electric auxiliaries on fishing vessels. to the thirty horsepower rating of the There is no question but that on any engine, but that remains the ultimate in motorship the ideal way of handling aux power just as it would with mechanical iliaries is through electric power. T'he operation. advantages arc numerous. If you figure to run vnur c!L:ctrical ma Ease of transmission: Power can be chinery at a constant· on~rloa·cl, you arc delivered simply and easily to the exact surely going to have trouble. If any point desired. concern built a five horsepo·wer motor Control: Control of electric motors is ·which would continuously deli\'er seven more certain and flexible than anything ;mel one-half horsepower thev ·would be outside of steam. foolish not to rate it at sevCn and one Availability of motors with proper half horsepower. characteristics: 1v[otor5 can be had which Certain t):pes of motors are best adap~ arc exactly rig-ht for any duty from varia ted for certain classes of work. Thus, hie speed windlass to constant speed for ·winch -..vork, a heavily overcompound pump. ed or e\·en series motor is best suited. Efficiency: Electrical machinery is i11 For centrifugal pump work a lightlv ov general more efficient than other fornJ.;; ercompounded or even shunt mot"or is of transmission machinerY. best. Still I have seen the use of a lit~ Safety: Electrical auxiliaries do awav tie shunt motor for an anchor winch, and \Vith {langerous moving parts such as when this did not function have heard line shafts, belts, gears, pulleys, etc. the entire use of electric auxiliaries con~ But this is also a fact: Unless the right demned. motors arc selected, unless motors and generators are large enough, unless the I have been aboard a boat with elec wiring is of ample size, the switches uf tric auxiliaries, on which the wiring was Saves 75% of the Fnel Cost ample size, and unless the whole equip a Chinese puzzle. No system, no order. ment is properly designed and installed, no plan; lots of automatic gadgets. Ingle OIL BURNING Marine mere electrification is no guarantee \iVould this man have allowCd his fuel Ranges are made for every size against grief. pipe lit1es to be put in that way? Indeed and style of vessel. not. Still the owner condemned electric To a great many people the word ele~· The same Oil Fuel that is used tricity has a magic sound. They will auxiliaries because he was always ha"\'ing for the 1Jarine Engine is ideal trouble. He could not help it. fuel for the Ingle Range, as Dead front panels arc very proper on proven in use on many Clipper Fred W. Schellin, Pres. high voltage and shore "\vork where there Fishing Boats. E. J. Ghio, Secy. and Treas, is plenty of opportunity of getting behind 25 years record for Economy the dead front. Has any one questioned Efficiency-Endurance. American Fishermen's their advisability on small boats limited Protective Assn. in room and using 110 volts. On a boat INGLE MANUFACTURING Active and Progressive of this type there should not be an iron MEMBERSHIP-103 BOATS, AVERAGE screw in the switchboard. Yet these dead COMPANY 4 FISHERMEN TO BOAT front panels arc all sheet iron. See them Makers of Ingle OIL BURNING Ranges, Transacts all business contingent to Hot \Vater Heaters-Hot Air Furnaces our association a year after installation. Sheet Metal Worlu:r.s Telephone: Franklin 1804 This class of work is a business by it self, but the decision on the equipment Factory and Office: I a67 Harbor ~t., San Diego, Calif. 930 VV. Grape St., San Diego P. 0. Box 875 has thus far been in the hands of everv body hut the people whose business it fs, except in isolated c~tscs. I am speaking no-.,.v of the Southern California live bait F. Buono, Gen. Mgr. P. Crivello, Sec. boats. M. P. SUGLIAN, Sccy. This article has ·dealt with what not to San Diego Fishermen's do. The next will recommend a standard Fishermen's Cooperative Association, Inc. practice. Association -KEENLY ALERT- Membership 65 Purse-Seiners DIRECTING THE WANTS OF OUR W. E. DRAKE VISITS CALIFORNIA Average 8 Men to Boat MEMBERSHIP, AGGREGATING Corre6pondence invited relative purchases 85 BOATS VV. E. Drake, manager of the fishing of our members. In£ormation gladly gtven. Average 4 Flshenncn tD the Boat supplies department of Edward Lipsett Telephone Franldln 2714 Ltd., Vancouver, B. C., this month made MUNICI_PAL FISH WHARF 825 HARBOR STREET a trip down the coast as far ns South SAN PEDRO, CALIF. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. ern California, visiting every fishing port of significance and investigating fishing methods in use in each vicinity. H. YOKOZEKI, Secretary s. Ciam.inclno, Pres. A. Farina, Secy. ~~WIIARRISTENDER Crab and Salmon Southern Calillornia A combination tender and purse-seine Japanese Fishermen's boat is being built in Seattle for the P. Fishermen's Protective Association E. Harris Company for service in Alas~ Association kan waters. The boat is designed to Enterprising and without question conform -..vith a ue-..v law restricting MEMBERSHIP OVER 250 BOAT loyal to the interests which it tends purse-seiners of more than 50 feet from OWNERS to serve. fishing in Alaska. The purpose of the Telephone Franldin 4989 Telephone 3595 la-..v is to keep large semcrs from migrat MEIGG'S WHARF TERMINAL ISLAND, CALIF. ing along the.: Pacific Coast and taking SAN FRANCISCO, CAUF. advantage of the seasons in various lo- ]ANU.4RY, 1930 31 A Western Enterprise Diesel engine _such as is being installed in several new fishiug boats at Siln Pedro, Wilmington and Long Beach, California BOAT RAMS DOCK - Want to Sell a Boat? The purse-seiner "Alexander I," forced by the rough weather about the middle of last month, rammed the docks while Unu.~1wl 1'echniqrw Results in tied up in front of the French Sardine Qnicl. 1'ransuclioll Company at Terminal Island, Calif., caus ing several hundred dollars damage by smashing the guard and other equipment. San Pedro Jf you \Vant to sell your fishing boat, Boat Building Co., Inc. harken to the technique of a New Yorker ANTON BRAJEVICH, Mgr. who' ran the following alivcrti!lement in CENTRAL Phone San Pedro 1433 a New York City paper, completing the sale of his boat in three days: SHEET METAL Builders of rF YOU WANT A BOAT AND YOU All Classes of Commercial Fishing GOT ANY MONEY, READ THIS! WORKS C. E. Lewis, Prop. Boats I Got Boats-two of them-that is, a Repair W orh of All Kinds converted Catboat and a Sea Sled. Now Marine Ways and Machine Shops here is what. happened. [ go to reading Berth 207 Terminal Island the~e boating magazines \and drinking rum. Blame it to ether, accorrling tO your temperance views. I ended up by buying the converted Cat. Then I spent Marine Work a Specially blue money putting in every d-- thing Phone 2740 I thought >vould make it comfortable. Tin, Sheet Iron, Copper and Marine Sheet Metal She sure is a darb, represents 30 feet of Brass Work .~olid comfort, and will ride out any gale. Phone Main 5405 Boat Tanks Works But I still get sea-sick! 718 Front St., Cor. G Chits. De Vries, Prop. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA HEAVY STEEL FUEL OIL AND Then I got the idea that one oi the!ie WATER TANKS Sea .Sleds would be the berries, so I Acetylene and Electric Welding bought one right from Mystic-brand Terminal Island, Calif. new. That represents 22 feet of the Near Bethlehem Ship Yard roughest ride in a chop that a man ever took (And I busted broncos and rode Luis M. Salazar Fords over country roads.) I got no kick coming. I had some fun. SHIP BROKER But if there happens to be another breed Unsurpassed Service to Fishing of d-- fool like myself, I'll save him j Boals The Union !ieveral thousand dollars by selling him my whole outfit-both boats and a "mil 306 MUNICIPAL PIER BUILDING Ice Company lion dollar" fishing outfit-the whole TELEPHONE MAIN 1225 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Just Call San Pedro 3290 for works for $3,000. Prompt Delivery ['II guarantee everything to he abso lutely 0. K., but in the future l'm going to stay on !ihore. SAN PEDRO GROCERY & SUPPLY CRYER VISITS SAN PEDRO COMPANY Harbor Sheet Metal Erl. Cryer, salesman for the J. E. Hig NICK POBOR, Prop. Wholesalers and Retailers of Works gins Lumber Company of San Francisco, Imported and Domestic Groceries, visited Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, Meats and Canned Goods Ship Supplies about the middle of January. He and Telephone 1348 AI. Larson, boat builder, then departed Municipal Wholesale Fish Market Bldg. SAN PEDRO. CALIF. for the north on a hunting trip. 32 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES First of all, the vessel must be as from any cause, the vessel may he to,:·ed Read Your Policy sumed to be seaworthy and well sup to its home or nearest port for reparrs, plied ·with anchors and other necessary and the expense of to·wage is a claim un equipment for the proper and safe han der the policv, less the deductible, as dling of it. The company requires a sur above referred to; but the cause of the Problems of lnsnrtrnce for Fishing vey by a competent surveyor before ac breakdown docs not necessarily create a Bonls Discussed cepting the risk, and one of the duties claim against the company. of this surveyor is to determine as nearly There is not much room for argument By H. DUKINFIELD as possible the actual value of the ves in the case of fire and sinking, but strand sel. This valuation is taken as a basis ing has been a source of considerable A very small percentage of fishing from which point to ·work, and, in the controversy. 1Iany things may happen boat owners take the trouble to read their event of partial losses, governs the com which would come under the head of policies, itnd it is safe to say that many pany's liability in the proportion that the stranding, viz., striking a rock or sub of those 1d10 do so kno>v verv little about amount of insurance carried hears to the merged object, resulting in damage to the it a iter they have read it, or- they would valuation. In other ·words, if the ves hull, rudder or propeller. If such dam not be under the impression that they arc sel is valued at $10,000 and the insurance age amounts to 3 per cent of the value covered for whatever happens to their carried is $5,000, the company's liabilty of the vessel it would be a claim; other boat. This, of course, is not universal, would be five-tenths of the amount of the wise not. but it is quite common. loss, less the deductible, ·which we will Collision is defined as "collision •\\:ith Unfortunately, insurance policies arc refer .to later. Of course, if the loss is another ship or vessel" and in no sense usually couched in language which is dif total the company is liable for the full ficult for the layman to understand and collision with a fixed object, such as a amount of the policy, in which case the pier or wharf. which, possibly, to a large extent, ac company loses $5,000 and the owner counts for the apparent indifference noted $5,000. The same proportions apply in Damage caused by rubbing or bump above. all cases, unless the vessel is insured for ing against ·whan·es or piers is expressly Passing over the question of the im the full amount of value. not covered by the policy; nor is injury portance of keeping your boat or other There is a condition or clause in every to individuals, members of the crew or property fully insured, as this is now policy which provides for cases of loss or otherwise, in any sense covered. universally acknowledged, the purpose of damage not resulting from the four causes If the vessel is used for smuggling or this article is to put in as plain hmguage above mentioned, which requires that the carrying contraband, the insurance is as possible just what protection your amount of such loss or damage must suspended during such operation; nor is fishing boat policy gives you. amount to 3 per cent of the value of the the company liable for theft of the ves It is a contract entered into ·with you vessel before it can be a claim. If it sel or any part of it, except piracy on the by the company granting it to compen does amount to 3 per cent, then it is a high seas. sate you for certain losses you may sus claim and the company is liable for its No liability is assumed for loss due to tain in the operation of your vessel, and proportion of the loss as described in the confiscation or detainment for violation protects you against fire, sinking, strand last preceding paragraph. of port or customs rules and regulations, ing and collision with another ship or The deductible clause above referred or violation of the National Prohibition vessel. to is 1 per cent of the stated value of the Act. Naturally, as in any other form of con vessel, with a minimum of $50. This 1 The insurance is suspended for the en tract behveen two parties, there are con per cent is deducted in all cases, except tire trip if the vessel exceeds its cruising ditions and stipulations, and some of the in the event of a total loss as above men radius as defined in the policy, and is not more important of these the ·writer ·would tioned. reinstated until the vessel has again like to explain. In the event of a breakdown at sea reached its home port. Never an Oiled Suit Like Harbor Supply Company Fishing Boat Supplies FROST'S 1027 Harbor Street "SUPERIOR" SAN DIEGO OILED CLOTHING Groceries, Clothing, Hardware and Fishing Gear. Made for Life at Sea We Are Exclusive -always oiled the tvay Distributors forSan Diego on fishernlen want the~n! IF YOUR DEALER KIRBY'S OLD doesn't sell Frost's we want to know it. Send us bis n:~me and we'l~ sec STYLE COPPER that you arc supplied. PAINTS D. 0. Frost Corp. Has no equal in bottom paints. 15 Wltarf Street GLOUCESTER, MASS. One Trial Will Convince. JANUARY, 1930 33 '\~ ETS-HOKINt~Nb G LVAN\ ~ MA.RI N [ [l[CTRICIA.NS-MA.RIN[ £QUIPM£NT I Bl STEUART sT.. SAN FRANCISCO •••• i'IB AVALON BLVD.. WILMINGTON, PHON£,-DAVENPORT 15.2b Pt/ON£-WILMlNGTON B91 Your First Coat Should Be LJONOIL Protects the Wood and Iron ~ jor Call Wilmington 891 Allan Cunningham Has What DECK AND FLOOR USE . for Your Boat Needs Electrical Wiring Electrical Specifications The Only Correct Another Correct Finish WHISTLES Gcnerators.--Batteries DECK MACHINERY For Your Boat STEERING GEARS Lamps by For the Fishing Boat ALLAN CUNNINGHAM lHEUJNii-UFE£xi~e BATTERY 124 W. Massachusetts St. Seattle, Washington FIRE PROTECTION FOR BOATS engine rooms, the number necessary de SHRIMP PRODUCTION CUT pending upou the size of the room. The Although the commercial fishing boat Shortage of large shrimp has seriously Steamboat Inspection Service also re impaired the production of shrimp in docs not come under the jurisdiction of quires that the extinguishers be of a the United States Steamboat Inspection Alabama1 according to advices from 1-.fo type tested by the Bureau of Standards bile. Only a limited amount of mixed Service it must be admitted that the ma and approved by the Supervising Inspec terials approved by the Inspection Serv shrimp has been taken by the canneries ice set a standard that the fisherman will tors. because a large percentage of small sizes. do well to follo·w· in equipping his boat. Both the Lux Junior and Lux Standard Small shrimp is slo>v picking and its This particularly applies to fire extingu Extinguishers are now approved for use handling is avoided as much as possible. ishers as an Insurance Policy is of very in Diesel engir:c rooms, in motor rooms VVhile a demand exists for large, raw, little Villue to the master and crew of a and in spaces used for the transportation headless shrimp retailers have been boat when fire actually starts ·with the of automobiles. forced to draw their supply from the At boat many miles at sea. The policy will The Lux Units have a number of ad lantic coast of Florida. often replace the boat, but it does uot vantages, most important of which is that take care of lives that may become en Lux Extinguishers witt last as long as a APPOINTED INGLE AGENT dangered or lost >Yhen the fire demon ship. The valves on the extinguishers ~Paul VV. Hiller of \Vilmington, Calif., attacks. are brass forgingS and the hose is sheath Lux distributor for Southern California, At this time it is necessary to have the ed with monel braid. The cylinders are has been appointed Los Angeles harbor finest insurance in the shape of fire ex of drawn steel to the same specifications agent for the Ingle stoves, manufactured ,tinguishers that the market affords. as commercial carbonic cylinders, manv at San Diego by the Ingle Manufacturing Recognition by the Steamboat Inspectfbn of which arc still in use after. 40 yearS Company and particularly adapted to use Service of the Lux Equipment should of service. in fishing boats. prove an excellent endorsement for all fishermen. The first fe\V minutes of a fire are vi tally important, particularlv so in the en gille room of a Diesel vess-el where fire is likely to spread under the floor plates and in the bilge. Those valuable minutes lost mav mean serious damage; even require tliat the ship lay-to while the crev,• fights the blaze. On the other hand, if proper first aid apparatus is available, the engineer on ·watch can extinguish an incipient fire be fore it really gets started. The. United States Steamboat Inspec tion Service requires· that all oil-fired The Star & Crescent Oil Company New Station at Fishermen's Wharf, San Diego, taking the place era f t carry I1an d fi re extinguishers in their of the old barge 34 THE Jr!EST COAST FISHERIES Packing Sardines copper paint and gave a general over plant for sardines, to operate temporarily for Mexico hauL-H. L. Miller. off the coast of Mexico, according to La Nacional de Productos Marinos, of * * * Frank C. Hill,· one of the hackers of Ensenada, Mexico, is no\v packing one JF estgate Installs the enterprise and a prominent Los An poulld oval sardines in style similar to the Nerv Cookers geles business man. California pack, for the Mexican trade, The \Vestgate St!a Products Com_pany The reduction plant will operate on the it is reported. The company is said to be of San Diego is now able to cook 37 tons boat only until a permanent plant can be doing a thriving business with this pack, of tuna. at one cooking, due to the fact established ashore, ho·wever. The reduc in view of the fact that California-packed tion plant, in addition to considerable that four llC\\' cookers and one retort have other equipment which was loaded abroad sardines cannot compete easily because been recently installed in the plant. of the duty which must be paid when for the cannery, •vent south recently from These cookers were designed, built and San Pedro. selling the goods in that country. installed especially for the Westgate com The Ensenada packing company re pany by the Hasty VVelding Works of 1v[r. Hill declares that when the cannery cently purchased the boat "Texas," which San Diego. The cookers are large enough is in operation it will be one of the most complete and modern on this coast. It took a load of machinery fon the cannery to hold eight carts of fish each, and each out of San Pedro to Ensenada. The craft is anticipated that it will begin operation cart holds nine racks. With the instal some time in February. was purchased from Everett Peterson lation of the cookers it makes it possible and will be used by the N acional as a for this plant to dispose of fish as fast as * • * tender and general utility boat. She is anv one of its boats is able to unload. Albacore Shipping now under the Mexican flag. \Nlley Ambrose, presideh t, has also Company Formed found that it ·will be necessary to enlarge The Gulf Packers, Inc., has been organ * * * the office space now being used to a more ized in Manila, Philippine Islands, for the Tuna CanneTI"es comfortable size.-H. L. Miller. purpose of fr-eezing albacore and shipping Quiet in January it to the United States-Southern Cali The tuna canneries in San Diego are * * * fornia in particular-for packing. The experiencing a dull month in January, due Equip "Centralia'' company is headed bv Frank Paschall as to the fact that practically all tuna boats As Temporary Plaut president. Mr. PasChall, who has been remained in port following the holidays The American-Mexican }'ish Products connected with a large company in Ma to get their boats in shape, enabling them Corporation, which recently announced a nila for some time, is a brother of Jim to get a good start for the coming year. large Mexican enterprise, plans to equip Paschall of the Long Beach Boat Build Many of them scraped their hulls, applied the ship "Centralia'' with a reduction ing Company. Scenet> from a Southern California sardine cannery. Le~t to rig~t, pur~e-seines stretched on dock to dry; center, fish being placed on conveyors to be 111 washe:l; right, frying trays; below, retorts; center, seahng machmes; nght', one~pound oval can, the type of sardine pack in most umversal use l''··;1 .. ' l: ]AiVUARY, 1930 35 OPERATE FLOATING CANNERY line carefully, he shot the "Enterprise" Burke Cannery Bums ahead full speed and yanked the tender The Bernstcn brothers, operating the Loss of Plant at AstOria, Orei, Set out and away from under the smoke Marine Products Company of .Los An clouds and falling embers. And thus goes at· $252,000 geles and Lower California, have .pur to Captain Larson the high honor of sav chased the old German steamer ''Ma By WILLIAM PUUSTINEN ing, not only the "Phoenix," but the life quima," interred at Ensenada, lv[exico, of ]. R. Burke- who was so numbed by during the \Vorld \Var and lying idle for 01~ January 8, fire of an unknown origin the cold that he could never have started years, to be equipped as a floating can i:lestroyed the vacking plant, warehouses the "Phoenix's" engine alone. nery to pack sardines six months of the and- o!-llces of the Burke Packing Com ]. D. Snell and John Trullinger, office year off the LOwer California coast, it is pan}', of Astoria, ·-which was formerly employees, tried to comhat the flames announced. operated by the Sanborn Cutting Com pany. Beginning in about the middle of ·with fire extinguishers but were forced to The name of the "11aquima" has heen give up and to jump overboard. fortu the building and just north of the offices, nately, both men were near enough to the changed to the "Calmex." 'l'he craft has so quickly did the fire spread that within been lying at the Parlwe & Kibele yard at shore that with the tide at low water ten tninutes after first being noticed anf_i stage they were able to wade out. San Pedro, where repairs will be made reported by D. Snell, an office em and the cannery and reduction plant built J. Total loss, as estimated by the L. J. into her. ' The Bernstens declare that the ·ploveC the flames had covered the struc lvialarkey insurance agency of Astoria, reduction plant will be installed only to ,tur~ from e1id to end. was set at $252,000. Total insurance in comply with the law and that canning of Seeing that all eJiorts to save the Burke volved was $332,000, including a 100% the sardines for the Mexican market is nlant were futile, the fire fighters centered coverage on canned salmon stored in the the principal objective. !.heir efforts to saving the Spokane, Port warehouse. A dozen gillnet boats moored land & Seattle railroad tracks which run alongside of the cannery -..no:re also burned, "Calmex" will be operated during half by the southern end of the cannery site of the year as a cannery and for the rest as were many fishermen'·s nets stored in and which connect directly wd1 the prop the warehouse. Two cars, belonging to of the time she will be employed as best erty of the Columbia River Packers Asso the Bernstcns see fit-possibly in fresh the Burkes, were parked in the building ciation onlv one hundred feet west of the and were lost. The burned structure was fish production. A refrigeration plant Burke loc-atiou. However, although an wilt be installed for the freezing of fish. built in 1902 to house the works of the east wind drove the flames directly to Sanborn Cutting Company but was sold Bernsten brothers a couple of months' ·w-ards it, the C.R.P.A. cannery was .saved to the Burkes over a year ago. ago were figuring on building another by its corrugated iron sheeting and con cannery ashore-they nO\v operating two ;;eqtJently checked the fire from taking a However, according to J. B. Burke, in Lo\ver California-but they state that considerable portion of the waterfront speaking in behalf of his father, J, R. they have decided "to put it on wheels." westwards. Burke, head of the concern, plans are The "Ca1mex" is a steamer u'f 1200 J. B. Burke and A. M. Canessa, -who being made for rebuilding of the cannery. gross, 220 feet in length. The steam were in the label room, knew nothing of power \vill be used fo11 the present, but it the blaze until they heard the fire appara is understood that other motive. PO\\'er, tus coming to the dock. On looking out MAY STUN FISH WITH BOMBS probably Diesel, will be installed at some of the cast side windows they at first sa\v Experiments are now to be made with later da:te. · no cause for alarm. But soon smoke from special bombs to be used with airplalles the interior began to pour towards them in the herring fisheries at the north coast and both men rushed into the offices to of Norway, according to a report received throw all the papers and records into the in the Department of Commerce from vault. Although this only took a few Commercial Attache M. H. Lund, at Oslo. CHAIN MANUAL ISSUED minutes to do, Burke and Canessa nar rowly escaped being trapped in the build These bombs will be constructed to Link-Belt Company, Indianapolis, In ing. Jumping into Canessa's car parked stun but not kill the fish, so that they will diana, has ·just published a new Roller inside they just managed to drive out come to ·the surface and float. It is ex Chain Data Book, No. 1257, which they \-vith the top of their machine already pected that the observer in ther plane will claim is the most complete manual for smoldering. be able to form a defmite opinion in this properly selecting and applying chain yet The elde'r, J. R. Burke, head of the con way, as to whether or not herring are developed. cern, was trapped from a shoreward re present in quantities. This 96~page book illustrates the con treat and had to jump into the icy Co. struction of the chains and wheels, and lumbia and swim for his life. Reaching presents many pages showing practical the "Phoenix," a large company launch UNSOLD STOCKS OF CANNED applications of Link-Belt Roller Chain on or cannery tender moored near the north SALMON light and heavy duty industrial drives, and end of the cannery, Burke almost para A report of the Association of Pacific on all types of machinery, tractors, trucks, lyzed with cold just managed to climb on Fisherie.'i states that on November 30, farm implements, etc. board. He was just trying to start the unsold stocks of canned salmon amounted All data is clearly cotnpi)ed to enable "Phoenix's" engines when Captain M. ]. to 1,765,164 cases. Of this amount 1,169,- one to select chains and wheels to suit Larson of the Arrow Company's tug, 199 cases were pink and 412,237 were individual conditions, and to figure costs. "Enterprise," steered alongside and took chum. This statement is based on re Also an additional feature of value is a a line aboard the tender. Cutting the ports from 158 canneries whose pack in presentation of lists of wheels up to "Phoenix's" moorings he jumped back on cluded approximately 85 per cent of the eighty-one teeth. to the tug and, first taking up the slack 1929 American canned salmon pack. SARDINE CANNERS .ASSOCI.A'l'ION OF CALIFORNIA OFFICERS Frank Van Camp, President, Terminal Island. B. D. Marx Greene, Vice~President and General Man~ E. S. Wangenheim, First Viec~Presidcnt, San Francisco. ager, San Francisco. H. A. Irving, Second Vice~Presidenl, Snn Francisco. P. A. Ford, Sccretary·Treasurer, San Francisco. DIRECTORS H. G. Maxson, F. E. Booth Co., Inc., San Francisco. K. Hovden, K. Hovden Co., 1\-lonterey. Frank Van Camp, Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., Ter H. A. Irving, Sea Pride Pncking Corp., Ltd., Snn Fran~ minal Island. cisco. _L E. S. Wangenheim, Carmel Canning Co., 1\lonterey. N. J, Kuglis, General Fisheries Corp., San Pedro. W. F. Wood, Southern California Fish Corporation, Julius E. Linde, Linde Packing Corporation, Terminal Terminal Island. Island. E. B. Gross, E. B. Gross Canning Co., Monterey. Address All Correspondence to the Office of the Vice-President and General Manager I 1603 Alexander Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 36 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES to full capacity with a personnel of about of the 1vorld and worthy of a place in The Public Press 8 men. Those 8 men can "reduce" more the markets of America, is the real foun fish to oil and fertilizer or meal in twelve dation of their industry. And they are hours, than 160 men and women can listening to some insistent voices that say Permit for E.1:clusit'c Reduction Plant pack into cans. that this industry is not a permanent in Causes Protests The canneries proper arc the source of dustry and is doomed to decline and pass livelihood for manv hundreds of families. away if principles of conservation as -r.vell Granting by the California fish and The reduction pl;~nts offer employment as profit arc not understood and follmved. game commission of a permit for an to members of only a few score families. If for nothing else, the fish and game exclusive reduction plant to use 7,500 The payroll of the canneries, 1vhen fish commission may be thanked for its un tons of sardines per season, without are being delivered, amounts to hundreds wise and absur(l ruling that permitted a the necessitY of canning any of it, as of thousands of dollars a month. new reduction plant to open at lvion_terey packers are- required by law to do, The payroll of the reduction plants, for no other purpose than to render a has evoked considerable protest. One food product into a by-product. This was r:_tmning full capacity operations, amounts done by the same commis. .;ion that is now of the expressions of opinion, pub to only a fe1v thousands of dollars a lished in the 1-Ionterey, Calif., Herald threatening to close for one year a Mon month. terey cannery, which in the the first of January 8, entitled "Let Us Save \Vhere the canneries have caused the the Industry I" (although \VCF does prosperity that has built hundreds of month of its operations, during an unfor not admit that the canners have just seen breakdown of its canning equip homes, the reduction plants have resulted ment, put more fish into its reduction a-wakened, or of certain other con in the building of a few score humcs at clusions) is reprinted here·with in plant than the law allows. But not 71500 the most. tons; far from it. full: \Vhere a cash register is rung up once The California s·ardine industry is at for the employe of a -reduction plant, it * * * * * the pnrting of the ways. The operators is rung up twenty times for the workers If there· is to be conscrYation, let it of the industry have apparently just rec of a cannery. conserve. ognized that situation. At least they ap- That is the economic story in its rela If there is not to be conservation, let . pen.r to recognize it. The city of Mon tion to the community. \Vhere, may it be il.fontercy prepare for the deterioration terey, greatest sardine producing center supposed, docs this community stand? and finally the loss of this one great in in the world, should look this situation dustry which has given this community clearly in the face. The prosperity of * * * * * a world position. There will be no sub- 1-fonterey, and therefore of the :Monterey The cannery operators, for many years Peninsula, depends in large measure upon at strife with each other, for many sea the manner in which the difficulties of sons buried in the pioneer labor of a care this industry arc to bt: faced and dealt less infant industry, have finally been FRANK VAN CAMP, Pres. with. galvanized into a semblance of organiza The sardine packing industry began and tion for the protection of their industry proceded to develop at Monterey as a for the first time. The Van Camp SeaFood canning industry. The first reduction \Vhen the. fish and game commission plants were small, and their operations awarded a permit for a reduction plant Company., Inc. consisted mainly in producng by-products at l.Tonterey, only a few days ago, whose exclusive purpose is to reduce sardines from offal and waste. There was a con Packeu of siderable and quick profit from the oil for "edible oil" and fertilizer, without and fish meal or fertilizer that these small the necessity for canning a single case reduction plants turned out. Thei-efore out of 7,500 tons of sardineS that this That Famous larger reduction plants ·were ·built. There plant is permitted to absorb, the can fore every canner soon had its OIV!l re ners woke up. duction plant. This is not ancient his They discovered they were canners. "White 'Star Tuna " tory; it is post-war. Some of it is his During the pa:st few years they had al And Various Other California tory that has been made since the oil tauk mo~it forgotten that. Sea Foods fire. They concluded that the sardine busi Only a very few years ago, both in ness of California was ·to be a canning Home Office-Terminal Island, Cal. 1f onterey and at San Pedro, the reduction business OR a reduction business, an(I plants \\"ere an off-shoot of the canning that the latter 1vas the way to the ruina industry. At the present time, the can tion of the industry. ning industry has become nothing more They admitted to themselves and to than an incident in the reduction plant each other, that in the chase for the quick General Fisheries business. profits from oil and fertilizer they had The tail is wagging the dog. been dynamiting the canned sardine mar Corporation. ket; and that so long as the tail was * * * * * strong enough to wag the dog, the sar Sardines and Mackerel The ayerage sardine cannery in Mon- dine market would be wrecked by those· CANNERS terey operates with about 160 "hands." operators whose ambitions were strong P. 0. Box 998 Snn Pedro, Calif, Some have more. Fe,v have less. est in the tail of the industry. They fin The aYerage reduction plant can run allv arrived at the decision that it was ult~imatelY ruinous to continue to sell the world's finest sardine pack at less than cost in order to make a profit out of Long Beach Salt Co. "overage." "The Dependable Sail" They furthermore realized that the fur ther development of the reducton plant DIRECT FROM OUR PLANT TO YOU business would- Scuttle the market for the Long Beach, California by-products, oil and meal or fertilizer. WESTERN SALT CO. All grades crude and refined salt for the They have arrived, most of them, at the Rewa.~hed Coarse Slllt Fishing Industry understanding. that the canned sardine, SAN DIEGO, CAUF. packed in cases destined for the markets MONTEREY BAY SARDINES Leading Fancy Brands: EL CAPITAN, GRILL, EL MAR FISH OIL and MEAL E. B. GROSS CANNING COMPANY Sales Office and Plant, Monterey, Calif. Cable Address ·"GROSS" JANUARY, 1930 37 stitute for the sardine. Nor ·will there that is the support of thousands of fam lem and make its voice heard. And ~.Jon be a ready substitute for the sardine can ilies in California. X ot by petty persecu terey and the 1\Jonterey Peninsula can nery payroll. tion, not by battles between lawyers, not fight to prevent the ultimate disaster to It is time to put an end to the business by wads of copy from publicity agents, its only great industrial proditction. of exclusive sardine reduction plants. It not bv resolutions from socities of gentle Let us can fish, develop markets, af is time to call a show-down with the fish men ·interested in killing quail, deer, ford wide employment, get a fair price and game commission that has granted pheasants and striped bass, but by a com for our product, build an industry, prac this latest permit foi- the destruction of mon sense practical cooperation with the tice legitimate conservation, and hold' the fish at },'Ionterey. sardine canners of California in an hon pre-eminence of Californa >Vaters and in If the fish and game commission can est attempt to stabilize the industry and dustry as producing the greatest sardine limit the number of reduction plants, then bring it back to its business-canning pac;-:: in the world, There is pride in that, it can limit the number of canneries' that fish, achtevement, employment and fair profit. also operate reduction plants. There are If the commissioners do not think the It is also it1 keeping with the program of now a sufficient number to harry the sar canners are sincere, let them for once the President of the Vnited States. dine schools quite thoroughly without give the operators the benefit of the l\Ionterey wants the dog to wag the adding more. If that limitation can be doubt.· "Perhaps cannery heads get tired tail. done constitutionally it should be done. of being treated like criminals or school It is time to pack eighteen cases of fish boys. PCrhaps there is a chance to get somewhere by treating them like men to the ton instead of thirteen and a half. One cannery finds no trouble packing and their business like the great Cali SARDINE INDUSTRY IN NORWAY fornia indushy that it is. At any rate twenty cases to the ton. It is time to re According to a report furnished by the there is a chance now to get more cases duce "overage" and consider reduction American Vice Consul at Stavengcr, the plants as by-{lroduct plants that are op out of every ton of sardines caught, and sardine fisheries of Norway had a very erated to prevent ·waste rather than to fewer tons for reduction purposes. satisfactory season during 1929. destroy the source of supply .for an Even to a blind man that' looks like Due to large receipts of fish by the industry. conservation of a food fish. Even to a canneries the Price Council of the Nor child the theorv of a limitation of num >vegian Canners' National Association For the canneries themselves it is time bers in the indUstry looks like conserva -and most of them now know it-to found it advisable to curtail production. market a fine and constantly improved tion of the supply. Enn to a moron the ?vi embers in southern N onvay were pro pack of sardines at a profit, and as the granting of a permit for exclusive reduc hibited from canning sardines after No basis of their industry, instead of cutting tion looks like waste and a repudiation of vember 8, and those in northern Norwav each other's throats in the disposition of the principle of conservation, were prohibited from canning after NO thCir pack >vhile they look >vith longing It is doubtful if the fish and game com Ycmber 22. It was reported that in con eyes on reduction plants to produce their mission is big enough or sincere enough fonnity with this decision most of the profits. to repudiate its recent action by getting canneries in both northern and southern It is time that the dog wagged its tail Norway ceased operations on the first dov,•n to hone·St business with the sardine mentioned date, again. canners of, California in a legitimate at The operators know that can be done. tempt to aid this industry in getting on a The total quantitv of sardines delivered They say it can be done. But they know to the canneries ii1 1929, was approxi firm foundation and on a permanent mately 67,150,000 pounds, as compared and they admit that so long as the reduc basis. · tiog plants hold the royal flush, the little with approximately 46,500,000 pounds in straights of the canneries make up a poor But the Governor can express himself 1928. The estimated pack in 1929 hand. to the commission. The. members of the amounted to 1,589,000 cases y;_dued at ap legislature, that have earnestly fought for proximately $10,720,000 as compared >vith * * * * * conservation, can express themselves an estimated pack of 1,100.000 cases val Perhaps the fish and game commission ued at approximately $6,968,000 in 1928. is interested in conservation in the real without waiting another year before the sense-in the commercial fishin~ industry, legislature meets, The California Devel in this great export trade of California, opment Association can survey this prob- A "WHALER" OF A STORY This is a "whale of a story," as the newspaper men say, It concerns K. Hovden, the prominent 1{onterey sardine packer. Now don't get us wrong-1vir. Hovden has no connection with whaling, Packers of In fact, that is what this story is about. Since publication of the New Year's Cali£ornii.a De Luxe number-in which we captioned 1-Ir. Hovden as "Up from the ranks-at Canned Sardines one time member of a >vhaler"-we have learned from authentic sources that 1Ir. HOvden has no claim to the whale as a stepping_ stone to becoming one of the world's outstanding. sardine packers. 1-Ir, Hovden has been to sea for several years, it is true, )JUt as buyer of cargoes and chartering vessels and selling car goes. In fact in 1905 he ran a fishing FRUITS-ASPARAGUS-VEGETABLES crew for two or three weeks and studied the actuaJ fishing operations. He was SHAD ROE ever inclined to get down to the funda mental problems of the industry and >vith Canne,.ies at illonterey, Pittsburg, Centerville this in mind worked in every position there was in a cannery. Defore coming to the United States FRESH FISH SPECIALISTS Mr. Hovden graduated frmu the Fisheries School in Norway at the Goy'ernment Ex WHOLESALE and RETAIL perimental Station, where he learned cook ing and the preparing of fish and meat Markets: San Francisco, Stockton, San Diego products, chemical combinations, etc, He also studied in Scotland, England, France GENERAL OFFICES, and Germany, and spent half a year 110 Market St., San Francisco in an American Can Companv factory in order to familiarize himself wi"th can mak ing. 38 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES THE FOREIGN TRADE pared with those for the same month a on Puget Sound. During 1930 Puget Statistics used in the following ·were year ago, show that fresh and frozen Sound will produce no pinks whatever compiled and assembled from reports re fish increased 23 pCr cent in amount and and the carryover will be readily absorbed leased by the Bureau of Foreign and Do- 16 pe1· cent in value; cured and canned in the 1930 trade, say dealers. mestic Commerce. - fish decreased 8 per cent in amount and The supply of chum talls is much light Exports-During October, 1929, 24,- 4 per cent in value; and fresh and canned er than a year ago, due both to the iact shellfish increased 5 per cent in amount that there \Vas a good demand and that 258,632 pounds of domestic fishery pro and 11 per cent in value. ducts, valued at $2,706,206 1vcre exported the late fall pack on the Oregon-Wash from the United States, compared with Impo1·ts of fresh and frozen fish con ington coast was considerablv smaller 19,944,799 pounds, valued at $2,524,035 sisted mainly of fresh-water fish and eels, than last year. · for the same month a year previous. This herring, and tuna. Imports of cured and is an increase of 23 per cent in amount canned fish consisted principally of cod and 7 per cent in value. These exports sardines, herring, and mackerel; while im~ FUNDS FOR FISHERIES BUREAU consisted of 4,991,807 pounds of canned ports of she!Hish were principallv crab salmon, valued at $907,961; 13,659,028 meat, shrimp, and lobsters. · Congressman \\lallacc \Vhite of Maine pounds of sar·dincs, valued at $1,024,476; has introduced House Bill No. 6593 to 1,947,417 pounds of other canned fish and provide appropriation for a five-year con shellfish, valued at $229,971; aml 3,930,- struction and maintenance program for 380 pounds· of fresh and cured fish and CANNED CHINOOK SCARCITY the United States Bureau of Fisheries. other fish products, including shellfish, Continued scarcity of Columbia river This is the same bill which was intro valued at $543,798. canned chinook salmon in the hands of duced at the last regular session of Con The United Kingdom alone receive{! 66 packers is said to be a leading influence g-ress, and is one o( the bills not reached per cent of the callned salmon, while the in the northwest fish situation at present. because of filibuster. Philippine Islands, Netherland East In· For some time the scarcity of chinooks The passage of this bill will mean dies, British Malaya, and all Europe re has heen pronounced, and prices have much toward the upbuilding of the Fish ceived 68 per cent of the canned sar naturally been high on the limited sup cries Bureau and will react directly to diBes. ply. There is m1t a sufficient supply of the benefit of the industry. spring pack Columbia chinook in any size Imports-Import:; t! uri n g October, to establish prices to wholesalers. 1929, atnounted to 50,493,393 pounds, val ued at $4,696,740, as compared with 47,- All gra{les of fancy salmon, such as 895,127 pounds, valued at $4,540,958, for Puget Sound sockeyes, Alaska and Red HEAVY WHALE CATCH the same month a _year ago. This repre sockeyes, Columbia Riven chinook and A catch of whales producing 90,500 sents an increase of 5 per cent in amount Oregon-caught cohoes are 'cleaned up to barrels of oil, valued at over 377,000 and 3 per cent in value. These imports such an extent that it will be impossible pounds, is reported for the first seven consisted of 23,902,167 pound:; of fresh to fill orders for some sizes in these weeks of the 1929 Antarctic season, and frozen fish valued at $1,310,198; 23,- grades before the new pack comes on, which ended on December 8, by Anglo 918,314 pounds of cured and canned fish, it is reported. Norwegian Holdings, Ltd., the largest valued nt $2,454,471; and 2,672,912 pounds There is a considerable stock of pink British unit in the whaling industry, for of fresh and canned shellfish, valued at taUs on hand, a situation -..vhich was an the companies it controls. During the $932,071. ticipated in Yiew of the fact that 1929 same period last year, 61,500 barrels of The imports during October, 1929, com- produced its usual biennial run of pinks oil were produced. "Repeat Sales are tire lJest recommendation." CAL ... REY Brand Portola Tuna needs no introduction California Sardines Year after year our volume in~ creases not be RE packed in a spotless Brand cause of new cus New Cannery after our ad tomers added, but A vanced improved method because of old customers re thus assuring the trade of a Super 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 K. Hovden Co. MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA "The Sardine Port of the JJ7 est Coast" MONTEREY, CAUFORNIA JANUARY, 1930 39 lSH ME New Reduction to do so, no doubt, as loug as there is a the start of the experiments, namely, Plant in Operation showing of fish, although their season July 10, 1929, the pigs were slightly over The Ocean Oil Company this month ordinarilv ends with the Christmas holi 4 months of age and "\\ eighed appro:Xl begins operating its plant on Freeport days-pirtly "because of weather condi mately 50 pounds each. One pen was Street, Dorchester District, Boston, Mass., tions and partly because the "help" cele~ used as the control. To the pigs in this manufacturing cod liver oil, industrial brates the joyful season with appropriate P.en. was Jed the usual iarm ration con~ oils, tanning oils, cod oil and liver meal. festivities. · ~1stmg ot corn, bran, and middlings. A John Burns, Jr., is president of~the new There has been littlt..: change il1 the small amount of so-called "wet slops" firm. Mr. Burns is well kno-.,vn through price situation principally because most · a:1d a few waste apples were evenly di out the trade in connection -.,vith the of the material being made has already VIded among the. 3 pens. Ten per cent Burns-McKeon Fish Company and the been sold subject to production. Nomi of th~ vacuu111-dned white fish meal was Ocean Tra\vling Co., ·which he also heads. nally the oil market is ·Be f.o.b. North substlt.utec) for. a like amount of bran E. Gordon Gourley is vice-president and Carolina points and 45c Baltimore, but and tlll?dhngs 111 the ration of pen No. 1· Bernard C. Rose, treasurer. The manage nothing is offered at those figures. othenv1se the ration in this pen was th~ ment of the firm is in the hands of Eric Chesapeake Bay producer.-; are entirely s~me as that of the control pen. Like Loffier, formerly in charge of the Boston cleaned up and Southern producers are WISe, 10 per ce1~t of flame-dried white fish office of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, working on "if made" contracts. meal was subst1tuted for a similar amount and a close student of the fisheries as -..vell Bay prod~ctions of fish scrap are also of bran and middlings in the ration of as a thorough practical scientist in fish reported to have been completely disposed pen No. 2; otherwise the ration was the meal and oil problems. of, last sales having been made at $4.10 same as tha.t of. the control pen. , For No expense has been spared in the and lOc f.o.b. the factories, ·while Such purpose~ of Identlgcation the control pen equipment, which, following the trend of southern plants as have not sold their was designated as No. 3. the times in the ftelds of medicines and goods subject to production arc said to ~he pigs in the control pen were' not foods, is wholly automatic from the suc be asking $4.25 and 10c f.o.b. their plants. W~Ighed until the_ cntl of the experi tion pipes which feed in the raw material 1viost of the fish sold recently will, it is ments. On July 2~. the a\'erage \veight to the filling of the containers ready for thought, find its way into the feed mill. for pen. No. 1 was 64 pound;;; the aver shipment to the consumers. The liver It is estimated that the production of age Weight for pen No. 2 on Julv 25 cooker is a nine foot boiler \vith a capa fish oil on the Chesapeake Bay and North was also 64. pounds. On August s· the city of one ton of raw material an hour, will be well under 45,000 barrels, as com ~verag·e· ~v_e!~l.I~ for pen No. 1 wa's 78 the extra large capacity being used so pared with approximately 48,000 barrels J•ounds,, hkewisc 78 pounds was the aver that the livers rnajr be worked up while for those sections last year and 54,000 for age we1ght for pen No. 2 on August S they are in an absolutely fresh condition. 1927. No eStim<.\te of southern produc H~wever, on SeptembFr 5, the avcrag~ The boiler is connected ·with a vacuum tion is possible until after the fishing ends. wc1ght for pen :No. 1' was 101 pound-s pump which not only aids in maintaiaing It is probable, however, that figures for a~1d f?r pen No. 2 it was 92 pounds. Th-~ the very low temperature necessary for southern states will also be below normal pigs 111 the 2 pens "\vhich 'vcrc fed fish producing a first grade light colored oil, as on the whole the fish have been mak :11eal showed an unusual amount of vital· but also assists in deodorizing both the oil ing le";;s oil this year than for a number of Jt.y and "pep;" considerably more th;n and the cooking process. The oil ex years past. '\·as demonstrated by the pige in the con tracted by the boiler is thrown off into vv·hile the volume of goods produced is tn~l pen, No. 3. .Likewise, the coats of storage tanks, from which it goes to a undouhtedly below normal, prices on the ha1r were of a better quality in the case De Laval separator and then into ship whole have been satisfactory and most of of the fish meal Jots. ping containers. the menhaden plants hope to end the year * * * The livers, still containing from 35 to with the balance on the right side of the Two New 40 per cent of oil, arc run through a Toll ledger. Encouragement is also found in Trawlers Built hurst cerltrifugal for further extraction. the type of fish that were caught this year Modern improvements without experi The oil thus obtained goes to a sUbmerged and the fact that when the weather was mental features arc embodied in two tank, then to storage tanks and, as before, favorable there was an occasional show smartly. desigt~cd trawlers for the Atlantic to the contain-ers. The final liver residue ing of fish in such numbers that promise;; & Pac1fic F1sh Company, enterprising is caught and carried to a horizontal better results for next year. firm .on the Boston Fish Pier according vacuum dryer and made into liver meal. * * * to reports ?f Francis J. O'Har~ Jr. own The vacuum process is generally regarded cr. The Sister ship;;, "Notre Dam~" and as being able to turn out the best quality Whitl~ Fish Mi'lll far Feerl "~ordham" were built by the Bath Iron meal. V\ orks. at Bath, Maine, and are 132 feet It is understood that the company is \Vhite fish meal is prepared from the long Wtth a beam ?f 24 feet and a depth of seriously contemplating the installation of waste of such ground fish as the cod, had~ 13 feet. Tl~e ma.m propulsion units arc fish meal machinerv for the reduction of dock, and related species. This waste fo~r-cyclc Slx-cyttnder 500-h.p. Bessemer fish waste, \vhich \\;ould be brought from consists of the heads, tails, viscera, etc. ~1esels rated ~t 500 .hp. at 230 r.p.m. In the Fish Pier. Back of the present plant Some of this \vaste is dried by a vacuum ~hrect connecllon w1th the main engine and the plans for expansion is the knowl !lrying process and some of it is run IS an 80·kw. 115 volt D.C. Diehl marine edge that investigations have clearlv through a flame·dryer. To obtain pre generator. Two cylinder Colo Diesel demonstrated the existence of a real need liminary data concerning the comparative generating sets are the auxiliaries, ~li ~or a pure, medium priced cod liver oil feeding value of vacuum-dried white fish rectly connected to a. 10 kw. Diehl gen lor human medicinal use and. for poultry meal and flame.,.dried white fish meal in er~tor. Br~mfield furnished the deck al}d livestock. Production is lagging he swine feeding, -tests were cot1ducted on a ho1st. and wmch, .and Radiomarine Cor lund an active demand. 1v[aryland farm by John Rue! Manning, poration of Amenca the wireless equip Associate Technologist, U. S. Bureau of ment. * * " Fisheries, the results of which arc re Menhaden Fishing ported as follows: * * * Season Closes In order to keep up with rapid arri A number of pigs from the same litter, vals at the New England Fish Exchange . The menhaden fishing season has prac born on March 5, 1929, were divided into at Boston, a new blackboard of large size tically come to a close. North Carolina 3 lots on July 10, 1929, for the pursuance has been placed on the wall a smaller factories are still fishing and will continue of these experiments. Accordingly, at one proving inadequate for ti1e purpose. 40 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES Ways of Using between each group in order that the (b) Do I look clean, '\Yell shaved, avd Le/t~Over Fish food trades l~)ay progress toward one well groomed? There are many ways of using left great industrial group." (c) Do my clothes reflect the type over fish-and the wise retailer ·will paint of store I have? such matters out to his customers if he * * * Ten Comnwndmen'ts 2. Initiative-The ability to start wishes his business to thrive. Here are a of Success few suggestions that he might make to things on my own. Am I a self-starter, his patrons: The road to success is reached by ob or do I have to be pushed into an}rthinR Fish of course must be kept thorough serving the ten commandments. I undertake? Personality: Be cheerful, and wear a 3. Courage-Once I have started ly chilled, both after as well as before smile. - it is cooked. And then on Saturday some-thing I felt sure was right, do I for instance-you can prepare the fish Honesty: Be square with your cus have the backbone to sec it through, or left·overs in many good \vays. tomers, fair with your firm and true to do I begin to alibi myself out of the idea Creamed fish, for instanCe. Remove all yourself. just as :;;oon as I meet difficulties? Knowledge: Know your goods. skin and bone, and flake the fish into 4. Reliability-\Vhen I tell folks that rather big pieces. Have ready a quarter Courtesy: Be courteous to your cus tomers. Good manners are always in I will do a thing at a certain time, do I as much diced, crisp celery. Heat the do it? Do I open up on time? Am I fish in a \veil seasoned white sauce, and order. Logic: Be sure that you kno1v ..,yhat regular? just as you are serving it mix it ·with 5. Dependability-\Vhen I tell folks the celery. Pour it on thin slices of you are talking- about and that all ideas ~1re presented coherently. that I will get some article for them, do crisp, buttered toast. I make good on my prmi1ise? Do I pos Or· fish salad. RemoYe skin and bone, Sincerity: ]vfean what you sav and ses~ dependability? and mince the fish finely. :Mix with be sure that what you say can be~ justi mayonnaise, and arrange in mounds in fied. 6. Affability-Am I affable, or does lettuce nests. Or flake the fish, mix it Tact: Be careful what you say and my disposition depend upon the mood I ·with equal parts of minced celery and how you say it. am in, or the way my business is? green peppers or else with the celery Tolerence: Be polite and avoid any 7. Resourcefulness-\Vhen I am up alone, and serve on lettuce leaves, with arguments with your customers. Be sur~ against a business problem, do I fight it mayonnaise or French dressing. Gar to say good morning or good afternoon out until I have the answer, or do I dis· nish, if you wish, with stuffed olives. to your custo!ners and a "T'hank you." miss the problem by passing the buck to Scalloped fish is also good. To ntake Judgment: Do not order more goods some one else? it, mix it ·with white sauce and put in a than vou can sell. Some stores are in variably short on some items that 1ve 8. Progressiveness-Am I "modern" baking dish in alternate layers 1vith but or "old-fashioned"? Am I willing to con tered bread crumbs. Bake until brown. have in the warehouse. This drives cus tomers fW:ay from your store. sider a new idea, and actually think about Fish sandwiches, made of minced fish how it could be profitably adopted into well seasoned with mayonnaise, with PerseYerance: Be steady, and patient, yet determined to win your goal. my business, or do I know that mv old crisp lettuce leaves used with the fish way is the best for my store, even tllough paste, arc also good. They can be made * * * I have no experi~ncc with the new way? with hot buttered toast instead of bread. Fish Available Do I adopt what I consider good? \Vhen cucumbers are available, thinly to Retailers 9. Sound Minded-Am I normal in ~!iced crisp cucumbers can be spread A calendar of fresh fish varieties over the fish. Or else the cucumbers may my views on competition and present day available to the retailer in Southern Cal prosperity, or am I a radical who blantes be served sliced with most kinds of fish. ifornia is published herewith through the my own lack of success on the present There is something about their crisp qual courtesy of C. 1L Small, manager of goYernment, and the dominance of a se- ity and delicate flavor that goes well the Van Camp organizations. lect group? · with fish. In season: Barracuda, local halibut, lo 10. Easy Going-Am I inclined to be * * * cal sea bass, yellowtail, rock cod, re"9 too easy on my slow pay customers, too Food Distributors snappers, tuna, bonita, white fish, blue in Meeting · willing to say that a thing can't be done? perch, sea trout, island smelts, jack smelts, Am I too easily sold? A nation-wide movement to bring sculpin sardines, herring, kingfish, soles, about a common understanding amonG' sand dabs, catfish, devil fish, jUmbo crabs Business the food trades through a series of meet boiled, black cod, gray cod, large rock Kno-wing the facts I do about my busi ings to be conducted in every important bass, kelp bass, kippered herring, finnan ness, what valuation would I place upon food market throughout the country is baddies, frog legs, filet of baddies, scal it if I were buying it from another? the object of the American Institute of lops, Alasl;;:a shrimp, Southern shrim.p, How does that value compare with Food Distribution. N. Y. oysters, Olympic cocktail oysters, the book value of my business? The first of these was the gathering lobsters, halibut, salmon, fillet of sole. together of more than 100 food trade Considering the experiences of others, leaders from the Nelv England states at * * * wouldn't it be possible for me to increase Git'e Yourself my business another 25% if I were to a dinner given by the Executives' club An E.'\:arnintztion of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, make my store more modern? last December. At the first of the year it is a go9d Have I sufficient records to be able "These meeting-s in Boston and other plan to take stock not only of our plants to reallv gauge the possibilities of my larg-e cities," said Gordon C. Corbaley, and material assets, but of ourselves. The business"? president of the Food Institute i 1 a re following list of questions has been sug Have I been fair with myself on this cent announcement from the executive g-ested as a good self-check-up plan by matter of advertising? Have I used one offices at Boston, "are in recognition that retailers of their general business and form of advertising long enough to really these food trade leaders are realizing the underlying reasons of why they llo know what good it will do me, or have I the necessity of coming together to sturly or do not succeed: been using advertising only occasionally, the modern trends in food distribution Appearance- and spasmodically? Have I a plan of and to bring about. better relationship ( a) Am I neat at all times? advertising?. Do I stick by my plans? JANUARY, 1930 41 s FISH New lJJe:xictm Tariff Fellows :Morgan, Jr., and some of their Lobsters Getting Effective January 1 friends, is located on Seventh Avenue, Scllrce According to advises from the division New York, in the Earl Carroll Theatre The lobster season started off in an un of foreign tariffs to the United States Building. sual manner in October, 1929, with very department of commerce, dated Decem It is attracting the after-theatre tra{le small receipts, but in spite of the small ber 27, the ne·w 1-Iexican tariff became in addition to breakfast, lunch and sup loads brought in, the price of crawfish effective January 1. Kcw requirements per patrons. Fish and chips, oysters, went far below that of the season pre under the Mexican customs code arc re clam and scallop stews, fish sandwiches, vious, due to the fact that they were not lated in the communication which read:; and special fish dishes arc· featured. The selling on the retail market. The sale of as follows: only meat sold is bacon.· · "bugs'' was so light in fact that all ten "Early publication expected new A strong suggestion. of th'e interior of ders were compelled to cease operations lviexican customs code to become ef a ship is given to the place, with wink .. for four to six weeks. fective January first. According ad ing portholes on~ the wall. The backers It was unfortunate that these tenders vance report new code abolishes con of the enterprise have been investigating were not able to continue their opera sular invoice. Consignee must pre other locations with the possible object tions, because with the weather concli sent 1Iexican customs four copies of cstablishlng ;:tdditional shops as soon tions now prevailing there will be very shippers commercial invoice dated as practicable, it ts said. *"' few crawfish brought in from lv!exican prior arrival goods Mexico describ All cleaning and prepa"ring, except waters. ing kind, quality and value merchan cooking, is done in the basement, which The tenders "Yvonne," "Oceana," "As dise, place of sale, country, origin, is equipped with a cooling room held torian," and "Shina No. 2" were expected marks, countcrmarks, kind, number, at any desired temperature with a Lip to arrive in San Diego on January 13, but and quality, packages, date, issue and man refrigerating machine. Potato peel the dealers did not anticipate very heavy shippers signature. Consular certi ing is done automatically, by an automatic loads. fication not required. :No commer peeler. The health appeal of sea food There is reason to believe that the bal cial invoices required advertising will always be featured, it is. declared by ance of the lobster season is going to be samples which should be covered by the proprietors. a very light one, and the dealers who arc simple list signed by shipper. Ship * * * holding any crawfish in storage will re ments through border customhouse As a Peclcller He ceive a good figure for them.-H. L. 1vi. additionally require quintuplicate Is a Gootl Hunter manifest prepared by broker at United * * * States border visaed without ice by As a fish peddler, Carl 1Ierry is a good Northern illen J"isit lvfexican consul that point and show cluck hunter, according to his friends. Southern California lng destination marks, countcrmarks, And that is no disparagement upon either H. A. Kessing of the\Vestern-California number and quantities packages, his vocation as fish man or his avoca Fish Company of San Francisco and A. kind:; of packages, gross ·weight de· tion as duck hunter, it is declared. Mr. Dacquisto, manager of the Del 1'..-fonte tailed description, total quantity pack }>'ferry, who peddles his fish in Los An Fishing & Packing Company, Monterey, ages, place and date issue, name of geles, during the "snow" this month went a branch of the \Vestern~California Fish person designated as consignee for 'with a party of friends on a duck-hunting Company, were visitors in Southern Cali purpose clearance goods and signa trip. They went beyond Bakersfield along fornia recently. 'l'hey stopped at .Santa ture. Parcel post shipments require the Ridge Route to do their hunting. Barbara on their way down to call at neither invoices nor manifest describ After bagging the limit, they returned the S. Larco Fish Company and then pro -ing above.'' home along the coast. ceeded to Los Angeles and San Pedro. * * * * * * Both men being prominent in fresh fish Gulf Corporation Wllat?-A Derl1y tra·de circles and having been connected Tal.·es Boat South on a Fish Jlllln with the business for ni.any years, they had many friends in Southern California The "Sally," a small fishing boat of The recent derby hat rage is even in to visit. They returned north after a few San Pedro, \vas being remodeled during vading the fisheries. Chris Olsen of days sojourn. The trip was both for this month at the Los Angeles Shipbuild Seattle, YVash., is the latest victim. And pleasure and business. ing & Drydock Corporation, preparatory the lamentable thing about it is that he to sending her to Guaymas; f.Jex., to be likes it. Sad though it may seem, Mr. * * * put into sen•ice for the Gulf- ~Fisheries Olsen is proud of his ne"\v pie-crust top Fro:::en Fish Corporation. The entire hoW .,,~as lined piece. He e''en had to make a trip IJ!miing Rupitlly with cork and torfoleum insUlation and down to San Pedro, Calif., to show it According to Guy C. Lamoreaux, vice the hatch was greatly enlarged, making off. At any rate he didn't hide it as he it possible to store approximately five president in charge of the Los Angeles walked down the municipal ftsh wharf to Icc & Cold Storage Company's cold tons of iced fish in the hatchway alone. the tune of jibes from brother fish men The boat is designed to transport to storage division, frozen fish have begun who have not yet succumbed to derby to move exceptionally well. The sales tuava from the Guaymas plant of the ites. f..{r. Olsen was visiting in Califor company toward market, it is understood, jumped materially when the storm nia during the middle of January on both occurred during the middle of .Januarv. and the boat will carry about a car load. pleasure and business. _ F. E. Lewellyn is president of the Gult From six to eight thousand pounds daify Fisheries, which recently shipped its first * * * were being moved. 1.fr. Lamoreaux states car of the fish into the municipal mar "Fishernuzn' s that rainy \Yeather usually results in an accelerated demand for frozen fish. kets at San Pedro, Calif. Night" The program under the "direction oi * * * * * * lifelong fishennen, a special entertainment Winters J"isits Fish aml Chips designated "Fisherman's Night," was held LoS Angeles Shop Openetl at the East Marion, N. Y., Baptist \V. S. \Vinters, comptroller of the F. A fish and chips shop, extremely popu~ church recently. Like its neighboring E. Booth Company, fresh fish depart lar in England, but rare in the United town, Greenport, East 1v[arion, Long Is ment, San Francisco, Calif., visited Los States, has opened in N cw York City. land, has always been a fishing commu Angeles on a business trip during the The shop, backed by A. N cues, \Nilliam nity. past month. 42 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES San francisco ilion~ About the Growih of the Bay City Industry By HORACE GUITTARD DEN@ Chairlllan, Industrial Publicitr Committee, San Ltrancisco Chamber of Commerce In the davs when Leland Stanford was pushing the. steel rails of the Central Pa ci fie to meet the Union Pacific, when frock coated and bewhiskered business men watched for ships to round Tele graph Hill and dock \vhere San Francis co's financial district now stands, the fish industry had its inception here to satisfy ?98 CLAY STRE~T TELEPHONE the delicate palates of the epicures of that early day. SAN F'RAN Cl SCO, CALl F. DAvenport Since A Paladini, Sr., and the Califor nia Fish Company r.:ommenced commer Q 6820 0 cial fishing on San Francisco Bay in 1860, the fame of our delicious sea foods has spread around the world. One of the first questions a visitor asks, is "\Vhere can I get a good fish dinner?" Arthur Anderson The romance of this industry is pre served at Fisherman's W·harf, which both Columbia Fish Co., Inc. residents and tourists visit to enjoy the tang of salt air, laden with odors of fish River Packers Producers and and cooking crab, while watching hardy Distributors of sons of Italy, many of whom represent two and three generations in the busi Association Oregon's Finest ness, bringii1g in boatloads of their fin nev catch. liNC. Fll.'esh and Fll.'ozen There is a fascinating attraction to this SALMON ·work which takes men down to the sea Largest Fresh Fish Dealers in ships, but like the injunction to "cast ALSO SALMON your net on the other side," we may do on the Columbia River likewise and draw out an equ·ally inter PACKERS esting story of the economic growth of San Francisco as the state leader in the ASTORIA, OREGON HOME OFFICE fresh fish business. ASTORIA, OREGON Fish were plentiful in San Francisco Bay during the 60's, 70's and 80's. All of the fishing of that day until the late 80s, including even the -dragging for flat GLOUCESTER VESSEL LOST fish, was carried on by sailing boats, with the exception of a few steam PO\V Loss of another Atlantic fishing vessel ered boats used in the Sacramento River FELLER FISH CO. was recently reported at Gloucester, salmon catch. 1v!ass., when the schooner "Georgianna," 'I'he first fishing from power trawler.-; Capt. Dominick Arsenault, bound to th~ was started in 1888 when the Pedro Costa Fishing Company moved ope,rations from Bay of Islands, N C\vfoundland, to load a bay to the ocean banks outside the Heads. cargo of salt bulk herring was driven This concern fished for the local com on the rocks in St. George Bay. The panics on a pro rata basis. A few years vessel was a total loss. It \Vas built in later, A. Paladini, who had been a domi nant factor in the local fish business prior Essex, in 1905, and was 122 gross tons. to that time, built a set of trawlers and carried on operations for himself. Until EXCELLENT OYSTER DEMAND 1900 th~se two co.nccrns were the only ones producing soles, the latter concern Wholesale Fish Dealers Excellent holiday demand for oyster.s being the only. whole:.aler ·doing its own was reported by Southeastern Virginia fishing. Wholesale and Retail canners. The oyster supply -..vas reported In June of 1900, two of the largest of the seventeen companies supplied by the fairly fat, despite extraordinary Jean spec Pedro Costa Fish Company, the Ameri imens at the beginning of the season. can Union Fish Company and ]. B. In MEREDITH IN CALIFORNIA Shad and herring will soon be running guglia Company consolidated to form the again in the Northern Carolina· water_.§. \ -ing the past year. ~ Little di{l Stanford realize when builcl iug his railroad that he 'vas also building the business which fisherman Paladini flETCHER WJ[SJANoCO. was beginning, but such is the case. The network of rail lines, radiating out through the \Vestern States to the east ...... MERCHANDISE BROKERS ...... coast provided an outlet for the sale of PHONES the denizens of the deep. Speedy rail CABLE ADDRESS CALPAc;K CODE transportation of today combined with re ARBAR MUTUAL 5277 ARMSBY CODE frigeration, makes possible the serving of San Francisco fish throughout the west .460 SEATON ST...... , ...,. LOS ANGELES, CAL within but a short period after they arc caught. Bringing in llw Catch Present day fishing operations are car ried in bv three sorts of business en· J. W. ANDERSON, Mgr. terprise, ihe cooperative producers or ganizations represented by the San Fran C 0 D FISH. cisco Crab Fishermen's Protective Asso WARRENTON DEEP SEA BRAND COD STRIPS ciation and the Rock Cod Fishermen's DEEP SEA BRAND 2~LB. COD BLOCKS Union, the wholesale co,npant~s who op BRISTOL BRAND 1-LB. COD TABLETS erate direct in catching certain species FISHERIES CO. BRISTOL BRAND COD MIDDLES of fish, -and the Chinese shrimp fisher men. Crabs and Crab Meat Fletcher Wiest and Co. Unlike the other forms of cooperative Oldest Crab Shippers in Warrenton LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA organizations with which the public is WARRENTON, OREGON Agents more familiar, particularly in the distri bution of citrus fruits and raisins, the fishermen cooperate principally for the purpose of selling their products to pany's "farm" opposite Millbrae to grow. wholesalers who then handle distribu.: When the oysters have attained the prop tion. In many cases these wholesalers er size for market they arc harvested, Neubay Oyster :;ell to wholesalers elsei-vltere before the brought to San Francisco, packed in ship~ fish reach the ultimate consumer. The ping containers, and distributed in the Company two cooperatives operating in this city fresh market. v.re the. San Francisco Crab Fishermen's PORT NORRIS, N. J. Protective Association and the San Fran The fishing operations carried on by cisco Rock Cod Fishermen's Union. the wholesalers and the cooperatives from SHUCKS AND SHIPS About 250 men, each operating his own Fisherman's VVharf employ a fleet of THE FRESHEST boat, belonging to the former org-aniza boats valued at $1,425,000. These boats SALT WATER OYSTERS ti(Jn ·according to A. Farina, its manager. brought in a total of 44,73i,650 pounds of 1'he'sc crab men bring in their catch of fish and shell fish in the twenty-two vari IN THE WORLD eties sought for during the year ending shell fish and salmon, in season, to their "When you need them, we central market at Fisherman's Wharf June 30, 1929. where it is sold. VVhen there is an over have. them." supply -of crabs, the shellfish arc lo-,vered Fish Dislrilmtion in boxes beside the owners landing and FLETCHER, WIEST kept alive until market conditions im Although there arc now but five com panies operating in the wholesale trade & COMPANY prove. About twenty members operat 460 Seaton SL, Los Angeles, Cal. ing boats constitute the rock cod organi· they are not small concerns. Like the improvements in cracking ice for pack Our Brokers For zations. Through such cooperation these SOU'IiHERN CALIFORNIA sea food producers avoid having to carry ing from the mallet to machinery, these their fish from one wholesaler to an con'cerns have made great strides in im other as is the practice in other ports. proving both plant and business opera tions. Today the five concerns, namely, Sole, which in early days was known as F. E. Booth Co., Inc., A. Paladini, Inc., plants in this city. In them fish arc "steamer fish" because of the method of Standard Fisheries, Inc., VVestern Cali· cleaned, packed in ice and made ready for catching it, is the backbone of the indus fornia Fish Company, and the San Fran Ehipmcnt to the local trade, throughout try in San Francisco. A fleet of hvcnty cisco International Fish Company, em the state and the \Vest and, in certain two trawlers, operated by the wholesale ploy approximately two hundred men on seasons, as far as the Atlantic Coast. Tu dealers, is engaged exclusively in. fishing an annual payroll of about one millilln fish may be handled through nc1v sales outlets, and the material which the re tailer usualhr wastes can be conserved ior fertilizer~ A former trade practise of assuming that fish must either be sold immediatclv or thrown away is also KOULOURIS~ diminatcd.- State Assistance SEA FOOD Through this state's unique organiza tion, the State fish Exchange, a similar DISTRIBUTORS plan may be perfected in this market. The exchange is a department under the FROZEN CURED California director of agriculture which was originally furmcd to regulate the fish Fl SH business including the selling price of fish. VANDIK£ 3067 Under the act through ·which the ex change operates the title to all fish found I:J04 EAST FOURTH ST. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. in the waters over which the state has .,. JUrisdiction, is vested in the state for regulatory purposes. \Vhen fish are le gally taken, the title then rests in the person catching or possessing. them. All H. S. Socltwell H. R. Sodtwell dealers in flsh are licensed by this de ESTABLISHED 1883 partment, for which they pay a fcc ac STAR FISH cording to the amount of business they handle. COMPANY H. W. Under the fish exchange act, the direc tor of agricullure becomes a paternal au Shippers and Wholesale tocrat for the protection of the industry. Dealers of SOCKWELL \Vhenever market or wholesale fishermen have an over supply, they are required FTesh Chinook, Silversicle, &SONS to so inform the director. At such pe riods according to his judgment this fish BrrghtooFall and Steelbead Planters, Packers and Shippers "czar" may decrease prices and give add of the ed publicity to the business or may take Sabnon in Season moneys received from :fish licenses to Famous Delaware purchase fish for cold storage. He later sells the fish to any and all buyers and Main Office, Wheeler, Oregon Bay Oysters the profit or loss is credited ·or charged Branch Office, Bay City, Oregon to the State Fish Exchange Fund. Located in the midst of the In addition to regulating the supply of greatest oyster producing fish on the market, the exchange is also center in the world doing a splendid piece of work in de velopit.Jg new demaDds for fish. The out Our Motto: Service First standing '\Vork so far· accomplished is an attracti\'e recipe book in which over five SANITARY Maurice River New J'ersey hundred ways of preparing fish is listed. This volume was printed by the state OYSTER CO. printing office for free distribution to the public. Planters and Packers of products in the United States approxi The work of \V. R. Smith, 'iocal repre Delaware Bay Oysters mates three billion pounds, is valued at sentative in charge of the Ferry Building Quality and Service Guaranteed $113,000,000 and employs 127,000 fisher· office of the Fish E~changc is typical of men, this industry is lacking sulllcicnc the educational work being done through PORT NORRIS, NEW JERSEY capital to oper.ate on the scope of its out the state. Smit_h is not only active in principal competitor, the packing house promoting local consumer demand for business. seafood but is also carrying on extensiYe Reporting that the fishing business is studies and making suggesti01ls to assist San Francisco, some of the leading caw lacking capital to conduct fundamental the fish men to improve trade practices neries of the coast are maintained at technical research such as has been the in their business. Incidentally, the writer Pittsburg and in ~vionterey. During sal basis in the industrial field, the U. S. desires to express his appreciation for the mon season, this fish is also 'mild cured" Commissioner in charge of this work information which ?\Jr. Smith S'upplied in a brine solution for both the eastern states that the companies face a serious which had made this article possible.. and oriental trade by some of the five problem because their operations arc di companies. Two of the local concerns vided into so many small units. Aml the Future smoke salmon during the season. The promotional work carried on by \\Then asked to '\Yhat extent the indus San Francisco is not only the fresh fish the Atlantic Coast Fish Company for center of the state but is also the oper the increased 11se of their ''Nordic" brand try will develop here in coming years, ating center for the fish canning industry fish gives one an optimistic insight into 1\{r. Smith replied, "That depends on the located at nearhy points. Here the bu:>i abilitv of the fish industrv to increase the what the future of the business on this publiC demand for seafoOd and the man ness and winter headquarters of the Coast may be. This concern handles the Alaska Packers Association is likewise fish catch along efficiency lines similar to ner in which wholesalers devis-e improved methods of handling and distributing maintained. the manner through which meat packers their product." Industrial Lachirrg in Capitnl save "everything but the squeal." Com ing from the boats, the catch is carried The old adage is particularly true in Contradictory as it may seem, this in· on- endless belts to tables where they arc this :;tate, howe\·er, "there are still plenty dustry which is grcybeardcd with its automatically cleaned, the heads removed of good fish in the sea."-- \Ve might add, three score and ten years, is still in its ::.nd then passed on to the next operation. "and San Francisco , is readv to catch infancY. The future will see tremendous Jviachines cut out and press the fish fil them." There is no doubt th~tt the men impro\'ements in both handling and dis lets which arc wrapped in vegetable \vho haYe builf t1J) thiS great industry tributing methods. parchment paper. This uniformly will study the methods recently- intro Despite the fact, according to the an wrapped, trade marked product is then _duced on -the Atlantic Coast and develop nual report of the U. S. Bureau of Fish "quick" frozen and is ready for shipment .o:imilar methods for increasing theif eries, that the annual harvest of fishery throughout the country. Under this plan husiness here. JANUARY, 1930 45 in this country. Fresh squid \Yhen well of dirt and grass gathered while on the The Squid fishery prepared is very tasty, especially when fidds. The squid, after cleaning, are fried in pure olive oil. pressed into bundles and \Yrapped in bur The squid fishing at 1Tonterey' general lap. These packages weigh from 200 to lmpoTtunce of the Business ul ly begins in April, a month after sardine 210 pounds each. The market value of Monterey Told season terminates and during the first this product is S cents a pound at San part of July. During the past season, Francisco. Artificial drying of squid has The 1\Iontercy squid fishery is the sub the squid fishing has declined as shown so far been unsuccessful. The sun dried ject treated by Rtllph F. Classic, 1Ion in the figures given below: sct.uid, although poorer in appearance, terey representative of the state fish and 1926~2,101,{]5;21 lbs; 1927-5,208,050 weigh more than squid dried by artifi game commission, in the latest issue of lbs.; ·1928-935,590 lbs. cial heat and bring the same market "California Fish and Game." Classic's Squid are caught with lampara nets in price. figures are for the period pp to the end of the same manner as sardines. The fish 1928. Figures for this season ·were not ermen make all of their catches at night available at the time of writing. b.ncl. close in shore. From fifteen to TilE FRESH WATER MARKET "The squid fishery is the second largest twenty-five tons for one boat crew is The heavy producing season for white fisl1ery at 1v1ontcrcy," writes Classic, considered a fair night's catch, although fish, yellow pike and blue pike, has had "having taken its place .next to the sar as high as forty tons have been caught a rather depressing effect on the eastern dine industrv since the time ·when sal at one time. Fishermen formerly re fresh-water fish market and prices with mon fishing~ at 1Ionterey began to de ceived $11 per ton for their squid. This very few exceptions have been low. cline. The squid fishery, as described price was increased to $15 during the price of carp Jell, due to the increased by \V. L. ScOfield, in the October, 192-!, present season, due to scarcity of fish. Blue pike have been a drug on the 'mar issue of California Fish and Game, \vas Five men make up a fishing crew and ket. White fish are plentiful and cheap. started many years ago by the Chinese. about fifteen boats operate during the Although the season in- the Great Lakes In recent vears, a Chinese merchant b\· squid season at lv!onterey. has practically closed, the market will the name Of \Ving Chong has increased All of the squid c(ltch at }..fonterey is be supplied from· ;the lakes of Alberta the demand for dried squid in the Orien unloaded at the Fishermen's wharf, and Saskatchewan. tal markets, until the fishery has reached where the fish arc hoisted from the beats its present status. Several new firms into hoppers and drained. Trucks then have in recent years become interested in haul the squid to the fresh fish markets, TRESSLER JOINS GENERAL preparing squid not only for foreign the canneries or the drying fields. FOODS nia·rkets, hut for local consumption. Con Eighty per cent of the squid received sequently, several thousand cases of is sun dried for the Oriental markets. As one of the foremost technical men squid were canned in one-pound and one All of the drying is done in fields adja on fisheries subjects, especially the diet half-pound tall cans by three companies cent to 1-fonterey, where ten or more etic values of seafoods, Donald K. Tress in 1926 and 1927. The bulk of the can acres of land are used. The process of ler, formerly of the 1vlellon Institute of ned squid .is exported to Greece, ·where sun drying is simple and rapid. Squid Technology, has joined the staff. of the it is considered a delicacv. Two small lose 75 per cent in weight during the dry General Foods Corporation and i$ now canneries at :rvionterey, w11ich are owned ing process which, under ideal weather actively associated with Clarence Birds and operated by Japanese, are canning conditions, takes from five to six davs. eye in the,laboratory work at G.loucester. squid for their people in this country. It is a simple process because the sqUid A large eastern fresh fish company dur are spread and scattered on the ground ing the last three years froze several and turned each day to expose all sur Arcadian Sea~ood hundred tons of the fish, which ·were sold faces to the sun. After drying, the squid are raked into piles and carried in bas Company. kets to one large pile. They remain in FISH, SHRJ~IP, OYSTERS, the large pile for nearly a week and CRABS, TURTLE, ETC. undergo what is termed a "sweating" J ..~· Burke Colllcr H. Buffington 501~527 Nilpoleon Avenue process. The squid, after drying, pass New Orleans, La. through a cleaning machine before bun Orders Shipped to Any Part of the dling and packing. This machine con United States Gold sists of a shaker,. \Yhich cleans the squid Beach Packing Company We begin shipping Wholesale Distributors of oysters on FRESH SALMON, HALIBUT, BLACK COD, LING COD, October £h-st ROCK COD AND SMELTS every year Rush Ortlers to Our Eurelo.a, California, Branch Telephone 612 Salmon, Shad, Crabs and I Canned Crab-Meat Oakland Fish Company Exclusive Dealers of BANDON SPECKLED TROUT WHOLESALE Your Business Solicited Fresh, Salt, Dried Prices Quoted on Request Note: 'V c boy Dnrrneudn, Y dlowtnil, Sen Dnss, Bonito, Jewfish for snit, Producers , quote us prices per ton. Coast Fisheries 505 Washington Street REEDSPORT OREGON Oakland, California 4·6 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES JAPANESE CAVIAR FOR U. S. The Nagasaki Marine Product Expcri~ ment Station is planning to market in the United States, through one or two exporting firms, the marine food prod uct known to the Japanese as karasumi, according to a report forwarded to the Department of Commerce by American Consul Henry B. Hitchcock at Nagasaki, Japan. This is a kind of caviar prepared from the roe of grey mullet by processes of salting and drying under pressure. It has long been held in high esteem by the Japanese, but in recent years, owing to the high price, it has not found a ready sale in domestic markets. It is believed by the trade that the United States, with its greater purchasing power, would: form the h'.=st market for the product, provided it \Vere found to ap LOS ANGRLES peal to Occidental tastes. FROZEN AND CURED STOCKS holdings of fresh frozen fish increased 2 per cent, and when compared ·with the SEA MAID United States.-According to statistics holdings on November 1, 1929, they de collected by the Bureau of Agricultural creased 10 per cent. Other fish in cold Economics and published by the Bureau storage increased 12 per cent when com of Fisheries in Statistical Bulletin No. pared with the same month last year, FILLETS 857, the cold storage holdings of frozen and 19 per cent over last month. fish on December 15, 1929, totalled 75,- Stocks in cold storage consisted of 847,357 pounds, compared with 78,090,- 1,130,165 pounds of cod, 2,345,169 pounds 034 pounds on the same date a year ago of haddock, 4,035,376 pounds of halibut, and the 5-year average of 67,819,00 6,698,802 pounds of herring, 672,764 pounds for December. This is a decrease of 3 per cent under a year ago and an pounds of mackerel, 7,800,415 pounds of increase of 12 per cent over the 5-year salmon, 898,854 pounds of whitefish, and average. The quantity of fish frozen dur 7,771,263 pounds of all other varieties. ing the month ended December 15 During the month of November, 4,660,- amounted to 9,282,670 pounds. 959 pounds of fish were frozen as com, pared \vith 6,426,337 pounds frozen dur Comparison of the holdings on Decem ing the month of October. ber 15 >vith normal holdings (5-year aver age) of the more important species shows the following increases and decreases in NEW SEASONS IN JANUARY percentage: Several new production sections will Increases open during the month of January. Ship Butterfish ...... , ...... 133 ments from these states should add ma Catfish ...... 89 terially to the supply of green fish avail Cod, haddock, hake, etc ...... 106 ahle on the East coast: Croakers ...... , ...... , 15 Flounders ... , , .. , ...... , . . . 9 Carp-Maryland, North Carolina, Vir Jvlackerel ...... 31 ginia. Scup ...... 112 Codfish-1\'laine, Virginia. Shellfish ...... , , , .. , .. , ... 16 F;els-1v[ainc, North Carolina, Vir- Smelts ...... 27 gima. FRESH FISH SALT FISH Sturgeon and spoonbill cat, .. 42 Flounders-)ifaine. SMOKED FISH SHELL FISH \Vcakfish ...... 10 Herring-Virginia. RED CROSS BRAND \\Thitefish ...... 15 Kingfish-Florida. New York Count Oysters \Vhiting , , , .. , ...... , 9 King 1Iackerel-Fiorida. Decreases Lobsters-Maine. We operate a fleet of new fast Bluefish .. , ...... 21 Spiney Lobsters-Florida. Cisco (tullibce) , , , ...... 78 Yellow Perch and Pike- Maryland, delivery trucks-your orders Halibut ...... 2 Vermont. delivered on time and in first Herring, sea ...... 7 \Vhite Perch - Del;nvare, Maryland, class condition. Standing or· Lake trout ...... 11 Virginia. ders filled promptly as well as Pike (including pickerel, jacks Pickerel-North Carolina. and yellow jack) ...... 70 Rock-North Carolina, Virginia, Mary- . Special Orders. Sable fish ...... 11 land, Shad and shade roe ...... , 25 Scallops-Virginia. Squ;d ...... 17 Smelts-Mn.ine. Los Angeles Fish and Stocks of cured herring in cold storage Tom Cads-Connecticut. Oyster Company on December 15, 1929, amounted to 19,~ \Vhite Bait-Massachusetts. 553.594 pounds, compared with 20,25ti,- PRODUCERS AND 516 poun~ls for the same date a year ago, DISTRIBUTORS reprcsentmg a decrease of -.1 per cent. NEW OYSTER FIRM Stocks of mild cured salmon amounted SUPER-QUALITY to 5,419,722 pounds, compared with The Bluepoints Company, Inc., has SEAFOOD 5,515,415 pounds for the same date a year hcen formed as a subsidiary of the Gen ago, representing a decrease of 2 per cent. eral Foods Corporation, formerly the Los Angeles, Calif. Canada.-The report of the Canadian Postum Company, Inc., to take over the 739 Kohler Street Department of Trade and Commerce North Atlantic Oyster Farms, having as V Andike 2084 shows that on December 1, fish stocks subsidiaries the Rhode Island Oyster Snn Pedro, Calif. in Canada totaled 24,858,815 pounds of Farm Company, the Connecticut Oyster fresh frozen and 6,493,993 pounds of other Farms Company, the Long Island Oys Municipal Fish Wbnrf fish in cold storage. Compared with the ter Farms Company and the Producer's Phone Snn Pedro 520 holdings on December 1, last year, the Sales Company. JANUARY, 1930 47 1'/w Deci~tion iollows: Sept. 4, Chapt. 137 Laws of 139: Pioneer Wins Battle '.'The Plaintiff, Pione~r .Packing Com 'The words game fish wherever used in pany, bought 14 cases of steellH!ad. fish this act shall be held to mean and include from the Indians. The purchase ·was any salrno gairdneri, commonly known Court UpholcL~· Rigltt to Handle as steelheacl, provided that it shall be law Steellwatls from Quinnult made at th~ Quinault resen'ation at Ta holah. At said time the company held a ful for any person holding a license to trader's license issued by the federal gov operate any net, purse sein, pound net, set \Vashington packers in general and the ernment authorizing the company to trade net, gill net, fish trap or other legal fish Pioneer Packing Company in particular ·with the Indians. The fish, so purchased, ing appliances for the taking of salmon, have won the first round oi a battle with were boxed, iced and the stenciled address to fish for, catch and take any salmo sportsmen over the handling of steelhead of the consignee shcnved the destination gairdneri, commonly known as steelhead, from the Quinault Indian reservation, ac to be the New England Fish Company, at any season when it is lawful to fish for cording to a decision by Superior Judge New York City, in the state of New York. salmon in any particular waters of the J. M. Phillips on January 8, say advices "Said cases were so marked and pre state and to sell any steelhead caught and from Montesano, \Vash. pared for shipment while still on the taken. tn l?e u~ed for canning, salting, Judge Phillips made permanent an in reservation. From there thev were hauled smok111g, lnppenng, freezing, or otherwise junction secured the week previous re to Aberdeen by the A. A. Star Transfer processing, but it shall be unlawful to sell straining the county game commission Company and delivered to the American any steelh~ad so caught and taken, as from any further seizure of steelhead fish Express Company. The express com fresh fish, 111 any market in the state of purchased by that company on the Quin pany receipted the plaintiff for said goods, \i\Tashington.' ault reservation for shipment outside the checked the weight of the cases and pre "It can be seen that the only restriction state. pared a ·way bill to accompany them to placed on steelhead by this statute is that In a lengthy decision Judge Phillips their destination. it cannot be sold in the state as iresh held that the Pioneer Packing Company "\i\Thile being held, awaiting shipment fish. It is impossible to operate the vari \Vas acting entirely within its rights in at the express office they ·were seized bv ous machinery and apparatus for catch buying the fish on the reservation and a deputy game ·warden. The seizure >va-s in~ fish without catching steelhead along shipping them, iced, outside of the state made upon the ground that they were wtth the other fish and this is the reason for sale. Sportsmen and game conunis subject to confiscation because the pur why the 1929 statute made provision for sioners contended that the Indians had a chase and shipment was in violation of sa:ving and taking care of the steelhead perfectly good right to fish as thev the fish and game laws of our state. The with. t.he pr~viso already quoted, which pleased on the reservation waters but th;t plaintiff company, ho\YCVer, contends that prohtbtts thetr sale within, but not with the state law applied to whites buying the purchase was lawful and that the out, the state, as fresh fish." the fish and that under it fish could not seizure was in violation of the laws gov The judge then gave the opinion that be shipped as fresh fish. erning interstate commerce. It is not the Indians who were fishing in their open seas.on, when these fish were caught, have It is regarded as certain that sportsmen denied that the Indians had a lawful right and the game commission will carry the to catch these fish hut that the Pioneer a nght to sell their steelhead to the Packing Company violated the law in Pi?neer Packing Company, as they did in question, which is an important test case, th1s case, and the Pioneer Packing Com- to the state supreme court. purchasing them. "It would appear that if the Indians caught them lawfully they would have a right to sell them where it is lawful to do E. J. WHITMAN, President so and that a purchaser from the Indians would be subrogated to the rights of When You Are in Doubt the Indians and should be allowed an equal right to sell them wherever lawful Get in touch with the Haines Oyster Co. so to do. Est. 1892 "The game fish, game birds and game Largest shippers of Shellfish animals of the state are the property of the state and the state has the power WHIZ FISH CO. on the Pacific Coast to reg·ulate the time and manner of their taking and disposition. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Puget Sound Scallops, Shrimpmeut, Crabmeat, Olympia Oysters, Rock Point ''But the plaintiff contends these fish FRESH, SALT AND Oysters, Deep Sea Crabs, Clams having been taken upon the Indian reser and All Other Shellfish vation were 11ot the property of the state SMOKED FISH Quality Always and the slate had no proprietary interest in them and that the defendant is there Always on the Job Pier No. 12 fore \dthout cause to prohibit their sale Telephone Main 6800 and transportation in the channel of in Whiz Dock, Seattle, Washington SEATTLE., WASHINGTON terstate commerce where they are being sold outside the state. "The statute governing stcelhead is as "PACKED WITH THE WIGGLE 4·3 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES pany had a right to purchase and ship case, because the stafutc does not pro grounds .during the month accounted for the fish out of the state. hibit their sale outside the state. 47 per cent of the landi~1gs at these ports. "The fishing season on the reservation Georges Bank was second in importance, Lawful Out.o;itle Reservation as e\'idence shmYs, opened on Sept. 15 accounting for 1G per cent of the land In another part of the decision, Judge and closes on December 31, and it -.,vas ings. Phillips said: during said time that the steclhead in con 'I'otal landings of fishery products at "The parties to this action both seem to troyersy ·were caught, sold, prepared for these ports for the eleven months ending have overlooked the fact that these fish shipment. Therefore, without attempt with Novemb~r amounted to 308,304,355 were taken in conformitv 1Yith 'the laws ing to decide -whether our state game and pounds, valued at $11,920,473, compared of the state of \Vashing-ton and in the fish laws extend over the Quinault reser with 256,689,993 pounds, valued at $10,- judgment of the court it is not necessary vation, it appears that the plaintiff was 036,535, for the same period the previous for the plaintiff in this action to rely acting clearly within its Tights and that year, an increase of 20 per cent in amount upon the rights of the Indians to take the relief prayed for by the plaintiff and 19 per cent in value. fish on their reservation and sell them in should be granted. It is therefore so Among the landings of fresh fish for dependently of the state law. If these ordered. the eleven months, haddock shows an in same fish had been taken under the same "J. )>!. PHILLIPS, crease of 24 per cent, hake 48, per cent, circumstances outside the reservation the "Judge." pollock 37 per cent, cusk 46 per cent, plaintiff ·would still have the right to ship mackerel 58 per cent, flounders 3 per rent, them to New York, as attempted in this NORTH PACIFIC LANDINGS swordfish 81 per cent, and herring 38 per cent, as compared with the corres Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin ponding period a year ago, while cod de 1\o. 856 shows that during November, creased 14 per cent and halibut 20 per 1929 2,076,300 puunds of fishery pro cent. --I Karl I. Sifferman Earl N, Ohmer ducts, valued at $254,848, were landed by American fishing vessels at Seattle, \Vash., compared with 946,200 pounds, METHODS AIDS PACKERS valued at $115,919, for the same month \Vhilc the regularity of prawn or a year ago. This is an increase of 119 shrimp catches off the Texas coast per cent in amount and 120 per cent in can no more be regulated than form Alaskan value. The receipts from Seattle ·whole erly, the uncertain factors of shipment, sale dealers by other than haWJUt fishing market, and price have been satisfactorilY yessels, but not including products re governed through the use of scientifi-c ceived from Alaska and Canada, amounted methods, recent reports have indicated. to 1,504,658 pounds, valued at $99,079, as compared ·with 1,100,000 pounds valued at A frozen packaged product has been de Glacier vised by the Bay Fisheries Company at $67,120, for the same month a year ago. This is an increase of 37 per cent in Galveston, Texas, through the direction R. ~"l"'rube, \YhO amount and 48 per cent in value. of C. president of the firm, studied the frozen packaged fish business Halibut landings at North Pacific ports carefully and resolved to apply the prin Sea Food during November, 1929, amounted to ciple to the preservation and shipment of 4,019,934 pounds, as compared with 3,- headless prawn. Labor saving devices 220,578 pounds for the same month a were introduced into the process to in year ago, registering an increase of 25 sure highest efficiency during the pack per cent. Of the total, 3,687,834 pounds, ing intervals. Company's or 92 per cent, \\·ere landed by American Shrimpers may be favored with catches vessels, and 332,110 pounds, or S per of from 250 pounds to 3,000 pounds, cent, by Canadian vessels. without any certain knowledge of how HIGHEST QUALITY Landings of halbut at Prince Rupert, large they will proye. Galveston shrimp British Columbia, accounted for· 1,823,000 arc caught with small otter trawls oper pounds, or 45 per cent of the total land ated by gasoline engine boats of 32 to 45 ings; Seattle, 1,519.,400 pounds, or 38 per foot length. Turns arc taken at the un SHRIMP MEAT cent; and ports in Alaska, 628,334 pounds, loading chute, automatic conveyors Dis or 16 per cent. The landings at Van posing of the catch promptly. The con com·er, British Columbia, amounted to veyor is built by the George Haiss Com and 49,200 pounds or 1 per cent of the total pany, with a 12 inch belt running 180 landings. No halibut were landed at Vic feet a minute. The belt unloads, all si~ toria during the mOnth. men can shovel from three boats at one CRABMEAT time, or 20,000 to 36,000 pounds per hour, NEW ENGLAND LANDINGS and the only power required is a 5 h.p. electric motor. Can Be Procured from. Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin Experiment revealed that large paper No. 855 shows that during No,·ember, boxes were the best containers in which the following Seattle 1929, vessel:; landed 23,751,335 pounds of to freeze the shrimp. The Pollock Paper Fish Dealers: fishery products, valued at $1,023,033, at and Box Company supplied boxes for Boston, Gloucester and Portland. This fi\'C, ten, and twelve and a half pound San Juan· Fishing & Packing Co, amount included 350 pounds of salt fish, sizes. Freezing is handled hy a Kolbe Palace Fish and Oy,ter Co, valued at $53. Of· the total landings 74 Hiving bell system, hooked with a Frick Sebastian-Stuart Fii>h Co. per cent were landed at Boston, 19 per Ice 1{achine driven by a 40 h.p. electric Edwin Ripley & Son cent at Gloucester, and 7 per cent at American Sea Food Co motor. Dressel-Collins Fish Co. Portland. Haddock continued to be the New England Fish Co. leading itet'l:l and accounted for 48 per Booth Fisheries Co. cent of the total; pOllock ranked second, DRAGGERS BUILT Haines Oyster Co. with 16 per cent; hake, third, with 14 per Ripley Fish Co. Launching of the first of a trio of ne\"\' Sound Fish Co. cent; cod, fourth, with 11 per cent; and Whiz Fish Co, flounders, fifth, with 4 per cent. The to· wooden draggers built for the General Main Fish Co. tal landings luring November increased Seafoods Company in Boston, at Essex, 12 per cent in amount and 1 per cent in was made November 30, according to re value as compared with the same month port. Dimensions of the dragger arc 102 Paclwd bv the Alaskan a year ago. by 22 by 10 feet, \dth a gross tonnage Glacier Sea Food Co., Landings by line trawl vessels during of 115, and a net of 77. The main po-..vC:r November accounted for 32 per cent of equipment consists of 230 hp. Bessemer Petersfmrg, Alaska the total landings and those made by large otter and large V-D trawl vessels Diesel. The Bromfield Auxiliary Manu (91 net tons capacity or more) accounted fa-cturing Company· furnished the -auxil P. 0. Box 1001, Seattle, Wash. for 30 per cent. iary equipment. The boat is s_kippcrcd Fish taken from SOuth Channel by· Clifford VanAmburg. ]ANU.t1RY, 1930 4-9 JUARINE SOURCES OF IODINE goiter is prevalent. The most common Haddock, salt ...... 680 practice on the part of the medical pro Mackerel, cmnmon, salt ...... 660 ).{arine products are many times richer fession ·js to prescribe idodine in some 1fullet, salt ..... , . , . , .... , . . . 56(} in iodine than any other source of foods form to be -added to the regular diet to T'un;:l, blue fin, canned , .... , . . . 390 for lnnna"n and anilllal consumption. In supplement the natural de&ciencies. 'I'he fact sea foods contain from 50 to 200 iodine mav be administered in the form tim~s more iodine than foods of a land of potassiUm iodide, or such special iodi11e NEW SAJRDINE ASSN. o;ource, whether tnimal or vegetable. preparations as iidized salts. These are 1fuch interest has been created by the ~ Iodine deficiency causes goiter. There unpleasant duses - and unquestionably formation of the new Atlantic Coast Sar are certain regions of th1s country ·where some "resistive energy" is e:xpended by todine deficiencies exist and, consequently; dine Packers Association. It is believed the digestive system in becoming adjusted it will unite the packers, do away with to this artificial means of administration. price cutting and market glutting as ef In sea food you have the iodine pres fectiYely as did the late lamented Maine ent in organic combination, provided for Co-operative. by nature, and in a readily assimilable John Hannula Jr. form. No such disagreeable tastes and The rules and regulations under which digestive "acclimations" as ordinarily ac· the organization purposes to work have company artificial administration, -..viii oc been signed and sent to the Federal Fish Company cur in the addition of marine products to Trade Practices commission at \Vashing ton. Officials, however, say announce Producers and Distributors the diet to supplement iodine deficiency. On the other hand, sea foods have a pal ments of their rules and regulations must Throughout the Year of atability (in some instances with scime come from the VVashington commis individuals a gradually acquired taste) sioner assigned to act as the representa Steelhead, Chinook Silver, unexcelled in delectability. tive of the organization at the sittings of Not only has n;ientific investigation the commission. and Salmon demonstrated marine products to be ex At a meeting held at Bangor, 1.fc., I. cellent sources of iodine for a balanced lL Banks, of the Bay. ShOre .Sardine Co., FOOT OF D STREET diet, both for man and beast, but nutri Addison, asked the secretary to notify Telephone 530 tion studies have proYen them to be ex all packers and to advertise in trade jour ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON ceedingly valuable for their content 'of nals, that his price on quarter mustards other minerals, proteins, and vitamins. ·would be advanced to $3.75 per case on December 15, and that a further increase The lmline Content of Some Represerz of 15 cents a case ·will be made on rtli tatire 1ll11rine Prutluct for luwwn grades and sizes of the pack on January consumption 2. This will be accepted as the standard Washington State Health Parts Certificate Na. 3 price by all members of the association. per billion All but two sardine_ packers in Maine Fresh (dry basis) have agreed to the rules and regulations J. J. BlU!!NNER Lobster . , ...... 11,590 and the'}' have ·announced that they will Clan1s ...... 6,200 come in, in t11e near future. OYSTER CO. Oysters ...... , ...... 6,000 At this December meeting, one packer Oyster juice ...... 3,170 Established 1893 said few packers knew what it actually Shrin1p ...... 2,250 cost to produce their g-oods. Two repre Rock ...... 2,000 sentatives of Ernst & Ernst, public ac Growers and Wholesale Shippers Bluefish ...... 1,870 countants, with offices in the principal of the \Vhite Perch ...... · 1,420 New England cities, spoke on this sub 1Iackerel, Spanish ...... 1,410 ject of cost finding. At their close, the FAMOUS FRESH OLYMPIA Tau tog ...... 1,170 packers agreed unanimously to submit Spot ...... , . , 1,140 OYSTERS AND CLAMS Haddock ...... 1,050 their books to inspection bv representa tives of the firm, who will 1-nake sugges 502 Fourth Ave. West Cod ...... 1,000 Scup ...... 950 tions as to the method of accountancy OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON Pollock ...... 900 best suited to the industry. Squeteague ...... 850 Halibut ...... 830 FISIIING LICENSES REVOKED Scappols ...... •.... 810 TACOMA FISH AND \Vinter Flounder . , . , .. , ..... , 730 The \Visconsin conservation commis Alewives ...... 500 sion's campaign to ,yipe out illicit fish~ PACKING COMPANY ing practices resulted in several arrests WHOLESALE SHIPPERS OF Crabs, soft ...... 490 FRESH, FROZEN AND SMOKED FISH ~Tacke rei, common ...... 330 in the vicinity of Port \Vashington re Specializing in Puget Sound Salmon cently. Gus Ewing of Ewig Brothers, Parts & 1107 DOCK STREET 'illld oseph Bossler of Lodde, Dossier per billion Co., both paid fines of $150 for fishing Telephone Main 1061 Preserved (dry basis) TACOMA, WASHINGTON trout out of season. The licenses of both Liquor from canned oysters ... 9,600 firms were also revoked for one year. Liquor ·from canned mussels .. 6,720 Lobsters, canned . , ...... , , . 5,320 Roe, shad, canned ...... 4,100 Edwin Ripley & Son. Oysters, canned ...... 4,010 SAN JUAN FISHING Roe, herring, canned ... , , , , .. 3,790 'Vholesnlc Shippers of & PACKING CO., Inc. FRESH, FROZEN and Sl\IOiiED FISH Crab meat, Japanese, canned .. 3,150 1vi ussels, sea . , .... , ...... 2,860 Wholesale Dealers, Packers and Shippers of 1899-PIONEER DEALER-1930 . Buck roe, cidfish ...... 2,2.10 Fresh, F~·otzen, Sadt, Smoked Pier 12, Seattle, Washington Clams, minced (N cw England) 1,970 Codfish, shredded ...... , .. , , . 1,520 and Canned Fish Sardines, ::Vfaine, canned . , ... , 1,510 ALSO: Fresh prime chilled Salmon and Roe, codfish, canned ...... 1,510 Halibut Stealts wrapped in parchmenf Cod, salt ...... l,4lll paper bearing San Juan trade 1nark and If It's Sea Food-See Us Codfish cakes, canned ...... 1.150 pacltcd in small, conv,~nicn t size fihc1· Shrimp; canned ...... 1,140 packages. 1,050 BRANCHE5-Seward, Alaslm; Port RIPLEY FISH Sardines, California, canned .. . Lawrence, Alaska; Ketchikan, Alnslr "The fresh water fish business in New York is not growing as it should," Mr. \Vittenstein continued. "Immigration has beeri restricting the entry of Je\\·s and others who are our best customers. The trouble with our business is that it has never been exploited properly. In Chi cago, every restaurant features fresh water fi.sh on their menus as well as with placards and window strips, whereas in New York only five per cent of the res taurants carry the fresh water varieties. If Peck Slip· dealers could only get to gether and raise some money for an ad vertising campaign, and follow this up with !"Omc first-class salesmanship, we could build up a much greater volume, make more money and stabilize our busi 1 ness. There are no finer fish than the fresh water varieties, yet it is only the foreign element in this city that knows anvthin~J about them. We have a tre The plant of Chas. Feller at Marshfield, Ore. mendous potential market if we will only get together and advertise." FRESH FISH MERGER New Patrol Boat Otto H. \Vittenstein of the Post Fish Company, New York City, has an nounced a consolidation of ten of the Oregon Commission Purclw~e_.; Craft fur fresh water fish houses doing business Nehalem Bay Duly on the Columbltr on Peck Slip. The move is made in the interests of economy in the handling of the shipments, both at the buying points and at the selling stands on the slip. Fish Co. By W.ILI~IAM PUUSTINEN H. W. KLEIN, Mgr. 'l'he purchase of a new patrol Uoat by Under the terms of the agreement, the Oregon St~te Fish Commission was onlv three stands will be used: the Post WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS sanctioned January 4 hy the board of Fish Co., the :\Tischler Fish Co., and the control. The new boat is built l;ly the Associated Fish Dealers, Inc. The ma Chinooks, Steelheads, Silvers Astoria 1farine Coustruction Company jority of the other seven firms in the and Bright Fall Salmon at a cost of $11,000, and is especially de consolidation arc new, independent signed for patrol duty on the broad ex houses, who will continue to solicit ship Let Us Quote You panse of the lower Columbia River. It ments to be sold at any one of the three stands. The names of these seven have is 47 feet long and is equipped with a WHEELER OREGON 200-h.p. gasoline engine and will replace been withheld from publication at tlv~ the old boat which burned four years ago. present time. For the last four years the Fish Com "The move means economy right down mission has patrolled the river in such the line, from buying agents to sales boats-either fast gillnet boats or others men and office help," according to 1h. -as it has been able to rent or to bor VVittenstein. "The handling expenses of row. It is hoped that the new boat >vill buying and selling have been so great aid materially in avoiding such situations that New York dealers have not been as that v,·hich occurred in 1928, when in abte to operate on a profitable basis. the two weeks closed season just follo·w There are forty houses 011 the slip now, -ing the ending of the summer fishing, and the amount they handle is no greater, gillnetters fished almost full blast. than that formerly handled by twelve fi·rms. Naturally the expenses have in creased. Since the merger, the ten firms. interested have saved at least $1,500 a LARGE STONE CRABS CAUGHT 1veek iu unnecessary help, $300 a week NEWPORT It is rather unusual for anyone to catch in telegrams, $1,000 a week in agent~, stone crabs at this season of the year and behveen $300 and $500 a week in FISH CO. in North Carolina. However, it is done long distance telephone calls. In spite of Crad Meredith, Manager occasionally. Captain Jack \'Villis proved this economy we are able to market our WHOLESALE SHIPPERS the exception to the rule recently, when fish and secure them to better advantage he brought in four large ones. One tneas than we did as individual houses. If Of Salmon, Halibut, Ling ured 170 inches from tip of one claw to other firms will only see the light of day Cod and Snnppers the other and Captain Jack said it \va<: and follow our example, a healthier con NEWPORT OREGON the biggest one he had ever seen. dition would be the natural result. ]A N U A R Y , 1 9 3 0 5J NOVEL TRA WLEll DESIGNED Creation of a new type trawler com bining the best features of a trawler and dragger has been announced bY B. F. and :Nf. G. VVhalen of R. O'Brien & company of Boston, according to Atlantic coast reports. The ne\v type vessel has been constructed by the Bethlehem Ship building Company at Quincy, lviass. Length of 110 feet makes the new unit smaller than the usual trawler and larger than the ordinary dragger, though re taining the popular lines of the dragger design. Other specifications include the following: 22 feet beam, 1(} feet 6 inches depth of hold, 12 feet 4 inches depth to quarter deck, and 10 feet 6 inches draw. The 30~foot hold is subdivided into seven transverse bays, is fully insulated, and will carry more than 200 tons of ice and fish, a quantity more than most large trawlers land in one trip. Use of a N elseco Diesel main engine Examining Totuava at the Gulf of California has been made, the power unit having a conservative rating of 350 h.p. at 280 NEW SCALLOP BED r.p.m., with 20 per cent allo\vance for BUYS MONTANA.FISH COMPANY overload. The engine has been commended A report front Butte, Mont., states It is stated that an extensive scallop by the designerS for its fuel efficiency. that a new corporation, the :Mid-Central hed was discovered at Shelbourne, Nova The Kinney Manufacturing Company is Fish & Products Co., has bought the Sc:otia, last year, according to a report builder of a sailing cluth that permits the ]\..fontana Wholesale Fish Co. The firm from American Consul E. \\r. !viagnuson disengagement of engine at will. The will deal in fresh, smoked, frozen and at Halifax. The bed is said to consist trawl winch is of Bethlehem design. Com~ canned fish, oysters, and products. of very large scallops. Further research pact use of the engine room space has will be made in the harbor and surround been made \Yith the installation of the ing ·waters in the hope that other bed!i auxiliaries, and a single cylinder 8 h.p. PINK OYSTER 0. K. may be located. Colo. Diesel drives a 5-kw Kiehl genera 'l'he "pink oyster," after undergoing In the vmter of Prince Edward Island tor light and power. Other equipment ten years of investigation; has received betw-een Alberton and 1£alpeque there includes a 55 cell Exide battery; \Vorth a clean bill of health from the state of have been found sufficient quantities of ington air compressor, two centrifugal New York It's as wholesome as those scallops to warrant development of the \Varren pumps and Bromfield fish hoist. of normal color, chemists ·of the depart industry, according to a Dominion in ment of agriculture reported. spector appointed to investigate the pos sibilities nf the scallop fishing in the island. MARKET GLUTTED SUNSET FISH TINT'S fiSH Conditions on the New York market ·were very unsatisfactory during the early co.. MARKET part of December, due to the influx of whiter1sh and yeliow pike from Canada Wholesale' Distributors of Wholesale Distributors of and other points, in fact every other va riety being at a heavy state of produc Nehalem Bay Chinook, Columbia River Salmon, tion. Carp, Suckers and Smelts Silverside, Bright Falls and Steelheads Also all kinds of Fresh, Salt, Smoked CIVIL SERVICE EXAl\flNATIONS and Pickled Fish, Oysters, Clams, The United States Civil Service Com Prices on Request Crabs, Etc. mission announces the following open compctiti\'C examinations: Associate 206 YAMHILL STREET Aquatic Biologist, $3,200 to $3,700 a year, WHEELER OREGON Telephone Atwater 3511 Assistant Aquatic Biologist, $2,600 to PORTLAND, OREGON $3,100 a year. . Applications for associate and aSSISt -- ant aquatic biologist must be on file with the Civil Service Commission at \Vash Telephone Broadway 3690 J. E. LAWRENCE ington, D. C., not later than January 2l) J. F. Meehan, Manager IT RAINED FISH PORTLAND JFXSH CO. &CO. SALMON AND HALIBUT-Also Fresh, It rained fish, or so the claim is made, Smolted, Piclded Fish and Oy11ters MERCHANDISE BROKERS All Orders Filled at the Lowest General Sea Foods and Fish at Sant SANTA BARBARA OYSTERMEN BUSY A laugh \Vith the -state· reefs opened for se\- eral weeks, the Biloxi canneries and ray,· Wire for Our Quotations It's on the Burglar-/or Invading oyster shippers has been ·busy, accordit_lg the Fishing Industry to report. Change- of the Lo_uisiana Con· servation Commission ht!s :_been regatded with particular interest ·_pyc-.'-'Jhe !vfiSsis S. LARCO FISH Speaking of burglars, which nobody sippi packers_.· and · shipf:i:t:~ti-'·:;':dcpendent was, one of the -gentlemen spent -a busy upon the waters of the hordcring state. COMPANY but unfruitful night along fish row at Established 1870 I'I'Ionterey recently. Four fi'sh markets and one cannery were entered and the We ship everywhere-all kinds of entire ,loot consisted of one battered California Sea~F cads. Special at~ jack knife. MONTEREY tention given to standing orders. The fish places broken into were the SERVICE PAR~EXCELLENCE San Francisco International Fish Com I. TAIGGAWA, Pres., Mgr. Specializing in Lobsters pany, the Del 1vlonte Packing Company, Live and Coohed Central California Fish Company, the 1\.fonterey Fishermen's organization and PACIFIC MUTUAL 214 STATE STREET the E. B. Gross Canning Company. The FISH CO., Inc. ,SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA first four places named are concessions Est. Since 1902 on the old municipal wharf. The Gross cannery is in New :Monterey. Producers ancl Distributors of The men believed to have been respon FRESH FISH WILMINGTON sible for all fi\'C 'of the "jobs" were We Ship Anywhere almost caught in the Gross company Specializing SHELL and SLICED plant. The night watchman found office ABALONE, MILD-CURED SAL desk drawers open and their contents MON, SARDINES and ANCHOVIES littered on the floor while making his in brine or dry salted. rounds and called local police. Fisheries Telephone 368-P. 0. Box T 4 Policemen went to the canning plant Cable Address uPac-Mutual" and conducted a search. The burglar or burglars, ·who had hidden in the ware 23-25-27 MUNI~~AL w,~ARF Wholesale Distributors by house on thC east side of Ocean avenue, Experience ran across the overhead brirlge that con nects the cannery and warehouse and escaped through a \Yinclov.r of the can-, T. Hamaguchi, Prop. Market Phone, 196 Producers Quote Us On All Kinda nery when the policeman entered the Residence Phone, 2372 of Fresh Fish and Specialties building. In their flight the intruders dropped a pair of field glasses which had T1-y the •••. been taken from the office in the ware Central California Fish Co. 224-6 W. Anaheim house. Wholesale Fish Dealers of every variety WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA The jack knife, which comprised the of Fresh Fish caught in Monterey Bay total loot from all five burglaries, \\'as CITY WHARF, MONTEREY, CALIF. taken from the ofTice of the Fishermen's organization. A panel was sawed from the office door to gain entry. The office MONTEREY desk '\vas ransacked hut nothing was NEWPORT BEACH missing. The San Francisco International Fish Company was entered throu~h a sky J.P. Holl.'man Fish Co. lf you want fresh fish light in the roof and the Del ?vionte WHOLESALERS Packing ~ompany through a small office that's fresh -· wire or window. The window was only 10 by 1-1- Srnelts N otv in Season inches, indicating that the one ·who en write us. Shipping fresh tered was of small stature, possibly a. Telephone 350~W fish is our business. hoy. NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. Entrance to the Central California Fish company \Yas effected through an 'I'HE office windmY, and the same method "'as HIGASHI FISH used to get into the Gross building. FRANK SUTTORA Police arc of the belief that all fiye FISH CO. co. places were entered by the same man or Wholesale Shippers 111en. Telephone 857 In each place _the office and desks harl Now Shipping Smelt MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA heen thoroughly ransacked but the only Telephone 269 or 134 article missing was the jack knife from NEWPORT BEACH, CALIF. the Fishermen's organization. JANUARY, 1930 53 CODFISH SCARCE the fresh fish situation back East is that SAN PEDRO tl.sh seems to be getting scarcer all the There is a considerable shortage· of time, ·with higher prices. As you' probab codfish on the Atlantic Coast, according ly kno\v, we haven't taken in a fresh ftsh JOHN IVANICH, Manager to Thomas Grace, sales manager of the tO salt for a gootlmany months, although Gorton-Pe-w Fisheries. we have been successful it1 getting a suf "The only change there has been in ficient supply of salt codfish to take care of our this season's trade. \Ve have just received a large steamer load from lce SAN LUllS OB!ISPO land-abottt 3.500,000 pounds altogether -which makes the third successive year· that we ·were obliged to go across the Established 1918 Telephone 864 wrrter for our supplies. That, in addi tion, to what we have been able to pur SAN LUIS FISH CO. chase in the )..Iaritime Provinces and Newfoundland, ·will take care of us 0. K. Wholesale Shippers of Fresh Fish, Shell for this season," says 1Ir. Grace. Fish and Abalone in the shell and slh:ed SSI DANA STREET P. 0. BOX 305 SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. "CIPANGO" SUCCESSFUL Jf/ e ship standing orders The new tuna cruiser "Cipango," not all over Texas, California, long ago completed at Terminal Island Arizona, Nevada, New IUexico, SACRAMENTO bv the San Pedro Boat Building Company hUs been verY successful on her first three Etc. -· or four tripS, bringing approximately 100 NOTE: We are large lmyers o/ all Telephone Main 475 Est. 1880 tons of tuna each time, according to Y. /dntls of Fre.dt Fish and Specialw Nakasuji, principal owner. ties. Please quote us on volume. TONG SUNG CO. The "Cipango" is captained by I. Ona, Commission Merchants and Oldest brother of 1.fr. Nakasuji. It was planned Producers, Packers and Shippers of Fish Shippers in Northern California to shove off south again late in January, All Kinds of Branch: Reno, Nevada aiter a short time in port, heading for FRESH, SALTED and 916 3RD ST. SACRAMENTO, CAL. Cape San Lucas, and if no fish are found SMOKED FISH there, to proceed out to the islands. 1..fr. Nakasuji is captain of his other LOBSTERS, OYSTERS, boat, the "\Vestern Enterprise," which re CRABS SAN PEDRO turned to port about the middle of Janu arv with 42 tons of tuna, and was laid up Standall.'d Fisheries a -couple of wel'!ks for overhaul. Capt. Company Nakasuji decla'red that he is experiencing ESTABLISHED 1897 a fairlv successful season. The ''\\Test American ern Eriterprise" has been one of the high Phone San Pedro 5 Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro boats in the tuna fishery for a couple of Fisheries, Inc. seasons. LOBSTERS ON THE BANKS? Purveyors to the The question of whether or not lob We Handle Nothing But Discrintinating sters arc obtainable in abundance on the Best Cashes Bank, lying E. ~/~ S. from CaJJe At Lowest Prices. Good, Fresh Fish Ann, approximately 78 miles out in t 1e Products o£ all kinds, at all times. open Atlantic is liable to remain un Send us your standing order. solved despite the persistently recurring "If It Swims, We Have It" Not the Largest, but legends and rumors of an immense popu lation of the crustaceans. The bank is the Best declared too remote for convenient ap Fresh, Salt or Smoked Fish proach, and the fas..t tides destroy pots, Pacific Coast while tricky winds and rapid eddies have made experiments hazardous and expen Fish Co. siYe. and NAKAHARA COMPANY Ship Chandlery and Supplies MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF ENFORCEMENT ASKED Phones: 907 and 908 P. 0. Box 267 SAN PEDRO CALIFORNIA Enforcement of fish laws was pleaded MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF bv Governor-Elect John Garland Pollard SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA ai a recent conierence of Virginia oys termen ca1\ed by the executive last month. Laws are alreadv abundant for . Vincent Di Meglio Annie Di Meglio Y. KAMIYA, Mgr. proper control, but enforCement remains Jack Cuomo necessary, the ,new official said. CENTRAL SLOW SEASON PREDICTED OCEAN FISH FISH CO. Trawl fiishermen of Passamaquoddy COMPANY Estahlished 1910 Day Alaine, predict a poor season for Est. 1897 small boat ·winter fishing in that region, Shippers of All Kintls of reports reveal. Fishermen were receiving DISTRIBUTORS Southern California 3y~ cents a pound late last month, and the dailv landing-s of the boats ran as All Kinds Fresh, Salted, Fresh Fisla low as 200 pounds. The lobster market Sutohed ancl Fish Specialties Depend on us to supply your wants and supply has been poor. Standing Orders Given regardless of the quantity. Special Attention MAINTAINING JAPANESE SHIPPING Facilities for handling Florida west WIRE FOR OUR QUOTATIONS DEPARTMENT '•Standing Orders" coast fish ha\·c hecn ins-talle·d by R. E. Telephones: Marltet Phone 229 Gause and John B. Pevy, owners of the Residence Phone 1596 CARE MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF Tel. 834 Gause Fish Company at Tarpon Springs, MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF SAN PEDRO, CALIF. Fla., according to recent reports of own SAN PEDRO, CALIF. ers. 54 1'HE WEST COAST FISHERIES SAN PEDRO Breakwater Approved LOS ANGELES Cable Address, "M ntllal" Bentley's Complete Phrase Ilouse RiJJers and Harbors Commillee ot~ehs Monterey Projt!Ct W:reden Packing The proposed Monterey breakwater & Provision Co. was approved this month by the House Mutual fish of Representatives rivers and harbors Extensive Dealers in Fish Meat committee, according to advices from and Poultry in Los Angeles for VVashington, D. C., ·which said that it is the past 30 years. likely an appropriation for the work will Company be made this month. The committee PRODUCERS AND SHIPPERS KINDLY voted to include the project in the gen QUOTE DIRECT eral rivers and harbors bill to he pre Municipal Fish Wharf, sented at this session of Congress. The Main Plnnt nnd Offices: committee approved the appropriation of 129 SOUTH MAIN STREET San Pedro, Calif. $610,00() to finance the sea. wall, which Phone MUtunl 4351 will be of great assistance in protecting the fishing fleet. LOS ANGELES CALIF.· WHOLESALE FRESH FISH The history of the 1\{onterey break \\·ater project is one of alternate hope DEALERS and despair, the story of a fight for har bor protection that at times appeared IMPORT-EXPORT successful and at other times a failure, ALL KINDS OF MARINE but never in all the project's history was there a time when it secnJcd as apparent PRODUCTS as at present. For the past fifty years ?vlonterey has M. H. Isenberg Packers of been giving time and money to secure FORMERLY ZAISER PRODUCE CO. harbor protection. Until last spring it "Pampco" Brand T empra did not look as though they would ever Wholesale Fish Dealers be successful. At that time City ::'l'laua SPECIALIZING IN FRESH WATER Fish Cake gcr Dorton hastened to \Vashington when the board of army engineCrs asked FISH why the project should not be aban Geor~e T. Ota, Managet- doned. We are the oldest firm in Los Angeles \Vith the aid of a -..vealth of data con handling the Telegraph "Mutual" for your fish cerning the present status of the lvlon FRESH WATER FISH TRADE requirements terey harbor and its potentialities he suc ceeded in COilVincing the engi11eers that 1812 South Central Ave. the project was worthy of a hearing. Telephone WEstmore 3263 The hearing was granted and the proj LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNfA STAR FISHERIES ect endorsed. Now it has been approved Wholesale Distributors of All Kinds by the rivers and harbors committee. All of Southern California Sea Foods that is necessary before federal funds arc I If you crave Service place your available for the breakwater's construc requirements with us tion is inclusion and pass:nge of the proj P. 0. Box 385, San Diego, Calif. ect in the rivers and harbors committee Telephone Main 8105 bill or in the appropriation committee's Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Ca.l. Telephone 2525 omnibus bill. It now appears more than likely that Young's Market the project will be included in the rivers and harbors committee measure and that Company Telephones: 333 and 334 funds will be available .sometime this Zankieh Bros. Fish Co. year. Wholesale Fish Division ESTABLISHED 1911 Wholesale Shippers with a LOBSTER TIDEVES HELD Los Angeles Reputation Theft of 218 short lobsters at York, Maine, resulted in the arrest recentlv of Attention, Producers: Quote MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF two men at York, Maine. A father" and SAN PEDRO, CALIF. son held responsible for the theft were us fresh fish and specialties sentenced to pay $25 each and serve 60 days in jail. The pair resisted arrest, and ,410 TOWNE AVE. appealed both sentences. LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA San Pedro Fish Co. Phone Metropolitan 6366 Wholesale Dealers and Standing HANDLING OYSTER SETS Order Shippel'S of All California Practical dt;vclopment of a method for Seafoods PROMPT and RELIABLE-: collecting and transplanting heavy or in "QUICK SERVICE" tensive oyster sets has been discovered recently, according to the Fisheries MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA Service Bullt:tin. A cheap collector for such use was designed of cardboard egg c:i::; MINCED crate partitions which were covered eith er with paranin and cOarse sand or as Pioneer Fisheries phalt. ABALONE Wholesalers of All Kinds of Fresh HENRY DOWDEN CO. Fish, Perch, King6sh, Smelts, TWO RIVERS, WIS. Distributors Mackerel, Lobsters, Etc. Doom of the Two Rivers, VVisconsin, 598 Clay Street San Francisco STANDING ORDER SPECIALISTS fishing fleet is predicted with the en Pndted by MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF forcement of the two and five~eights inch MARINE PRODUCTS CO. mesh chub nets demanded by the state Packers of ABALONE. TUNA, LOBSTER Telephone 1474 and other sen foods SAN PEDRO, CALIF. conservation commission. according to Export Office, 416 W.Sth St., Los Angeles fishermen of that city. ]ANVARY, 1930 55 LOS ANGELES One Night's TIL<\NKS, MR. VALLAS Sardine Catch Says S. Vallas, secretary-treasurer of Food enough to provide a meal 'for the Arcadian Seafood Company, NCw Or Leslie M. Kruschke Max Freeman more than seven million persons \vas leans, La., in a letter dated January 11: Phone: TUcker 1168 brought up from the sea in one night's "VVe certainly enjoyed yOur annual haul of Monterey bay sardine fishermen number and as is our custom with other last month. periodicals, have placed this number on Superior Sea food On that particular night, early in De our reference table to be used through cember, the fares of all the crews totalled nut the coming year.'1 Company 3,000 tons of fish. That was an unusual 1214 PRODUCE STREET night's catch, although similar~ huge de LOS ANGELES liveries have t WE ARE FLATTERED ,0,- ~~ [ In a letter passed on to \VCF by Joe ~~-L"~,~:---~ Aliota, president of the San Francisco ;--._..~ International Fish Company, from Mabel L. Johnson of the state bureau of pur "'" ALSO GEORGE F .. chases, Sacramento, the following-, of GORTON'S "READY TO USE" which we are indeed proud, is slated: CODFISH "I spent a most interesting evening WALRUS BRAND GEORGE'S NAYLOR one night last week perusing The \Vest CODFISH MIDDLES Coast Fisheries magazine and especially enjoyed reading the article about you. I General Sea Food Broker have been so busy of late that I have not always given this magazine the time to AU Kinds Fresh, Frozen, Salt read the interesting things; however, Leonard and Cured Fish after reading the last magazine care fully, I shall not want to miss any of the Fisheries, Ltd.. Telephone TUcker 4293 other issues." I ROOM 204 Montreal, Que., Canada WINTER CODFISHING 337 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE Producers of LOS ANGELES, CAUFORNIA \V:jnter cod fishing has been in full swing off l'viontauk, Long Island since the SUPREME BRAND first of December, according to Atlantic coast repOrts. Boats are p.lying out of I Haddies, Fort Pond Bay and Great Pond, 1-Ion· I tauk, and East Hampton. Flounder fish Smoked Fillets and Harbor Fish ing and. striped bass fishing have been I Smoked Kippers finished for the winter. ' Company An interesting contribution to popular ' information about the importance of the Order Through Your Wholesale Dealers fishing industry has been offered in an article entitled "Drawing Upon the \Va Jobber Fresh, Salted, Smoked and ters for Our Food Supply," appearing re ·canned Sea Foods cently in the Kiwanis Magazine under All Varieties of Shell Fish the name of Lewis Radcliffe, deputy com· and Specialties missioner of fisheries. Central Fish & Oyster Co. PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTICE PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTE:--Quote us Establishment of a wholesale and com We buy all kinds of Fish, especially on all kinds Fresh Fish and Specialties mission business by E. T. Jones, of the Carp, Black Cod, Mullet, White Fish, Rock Cod, Halibut, Salmon and 631-633 CENTRAL AVE. \Vholesale Fish Market, Baltimore, Md. Specialties Los Angeles, California Jones was manager for Kemp Hocn for Tel. VAndike 3740 Phones TR 6259, TR 6250 fifteen years, traveling extensively. He 1012~14 S. Central Avenue was also manager for J. S. Darling & LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Company of Hampton, Va. 56 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES SAN DIEGO. If It Swims We Have It. THE PEOPLE'S FISH COMPANY Producers and Distributors of ALL KINDS OF CALIFORNIA SEA FOODS Special attention to Hotels and Restaurants Especially LOBSTERS-Live and Cool,ed Fresh, Smol!:ed, Shell and Fresh Water Fish in Season , , . Telephones: Main 4158 and 4159 869 Harbor St. P. 0. Box 1205 SAN DIEGO, CALIF. H. DAKIS, Prop. Estnb, 1014 SAN DIEGO FISHERIES COMPANY The Fresh Fish department of the F. E. Booth Company, at San Francisco Direct Wholesale Dealer in Fresh Sea-Food BOAT PAINT Purchase of a five story building in OUR SPECIALTY-LIVE AND COOKED It is strange to sec how many different which his business is located will provide LOBSTERS-SHIPPED EVERYWHERE ideas there are about painting a fishing adequate facilities for expanding business of VV. A. Augur, net and t-wine man of Wire Us for Quotation-We Respect boat. Some builders will use an undercoat Standing Orders that requires two coats when they could New York, at 35 Fulton street. usc Lionoil that costs less per square Telephone: Main 9698 ioot and only requires one coat. The 815 HARBOR STREET BOX 77 Lionoil fir:;t coater i:; not just an under SAN DIEGO SAN DIEGO, CALIF. coat. It is a preservati\'c of ·wood and iron. It penetrates the ·wood thereby forming a protecting coat that cannot flake or chip ·off. The hanl service o( JOHN N, VITALlCH, Manager the fishing boat needs Lionoil. Lionoil Van Camp Established 19 I 5 is a trade name used by the Berry Broth· ers Paint Company for their ·wood and iron preservative. Organizations CHESAPEAKE FISH The fishermen should be more inter ested in ·what paint goes on his boat be~ Protlucers of COMPANY cause after the boat is turned over to him everv dollar :;pent on paint is a dol~ Sup,.ente Quality Sea Foorls Wholesale Dealers in all kinds of Jar out o-f profits, LIVE AND COOKED LOBSTERS CALIFORNIA FRESH AND ---- SALTED FISH During the past two months crabs have Texas Shipments Made Direct from not been plentiful due to the fact that San Diego Specializing thev were changin shells, leaving only a WIRE FOR PRICES :;;miill portion o( good crabs to be caught. LOBSTERS As a result vcrv little fishing is going on. 867 Harbor Street Live and Cooked It is anticipated that during th-e season SAN DIEGO, CALIF. 1930 the catch -..vill be doubled in \Varren 849 Harbor Street ton, fully 30,000 dozen being expected. SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA STELLAR FISH co. LAWRENCE OUVER, Manager Wholesale Fresh Fish antl Lobsters •K. 0. SHIMA, Manager AMERICAN Specializing to the Japanese Trade-fully CHARLES A. understanding quality of Fresh Fish FISHERIES CO. desired especia.lly Tuna, Yellowtail, Established 1908 LANDERS Barracuda, Multets, Seabass, Etc, Wholesale Dealers in and Shippers of 825 HARBOR ST., SAN DIEGO, CAUF. SALTED, DRIED and PICKLED SEA FOOD BROKER FISH Salted Barracuda, Yellowtail Serving the San Diego Prompt nntl Ilonest and Jewfish- Lobsters in Trade in Their Out Season-Live and Cooked 'l'l!';y THE UHI!OH Fl!SH We speciali:r;e in Fish Fertilizer and side Fish Requirements Fish Oil COMPANY Get Our Prices in Car-lots Before Producers Accounts Solicited Established 1908 Direct Wholesale Dealers in Fresh and Contracting Elsewhere Salt Fish WIRE FOR QUOTATIONS MUNICIPAL PIER BLDG. LOBSTERS--Live and Cooked 841 HARBOR STREET SAN DIEGO, CALIF. 825 HARBOR STREET -- San Diego, Calif. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. JANUARY, 1930 THIRTY PLANTS CAN CL1\1US Thirty canning factories operating to capacity are utilizing the total clam pro duction of the Maine coast, according to reports from the Evergreen state. Prin· cipal canning activity is confined to the Underwood plant at Jonesport; Burnham & 1v!orrill at Portland, and the F. H. Snow factory at Pine Point. George Shapro, well known on the San Pedro Fish \\Thad has been appointed San Pedro representative for Fletcher \Vicst & Company, The trade is well ac quainted ·with Mr. Shapro, he having been in San Pedro for a number of vears, and indications are that iv!r. ShaprO will justify the connection. SAN FRANCISCO Trucking totuava out of Mexico into the Cali San Francisco fornia markets SAN FRANC!!SCO BRANCHES, OAKLAND, MON· International TEREY, PITTSBURG, EUREKA, I Fish Co. SANTA CRUZ, POINT REYES. 535 WASHINGTON ST. SAN FRANCISCO Wholesale Fish Dealers Nationwide Shippers of Fresh and Mi!d Cured Salmon and Shad Fresh, Mild-cured and Smoked Fish Also Sliced Abalone Operating the Most Modern Type Diesel Trawlers We also Mild-cure Salmon and Shad, and SUJ>ply the leading marlwts tvitlt Abalone We operate our own trawl ers with the most modern This fisherman is hdding a fine soecimcn of equipment available. cabria, caught in the Gulf of California Requests for Quotations will be promptly answered. FISHING BOAT WIRING Ets-Hokin & Galvan, of \Viltnington, Northern California HOME OFFICE have been trying to keep up the standard DistributOrs Nordic Telephone Davenport 1767 of electrical apparaltt"s and ·wiring to a P. 0. Box 2143 good eflicient point on the fi='lhing fleet, Jlillet o j Haddock Price competition is trying to lower this -BRANCHES standard and a· certain amount of' cam ouflage is being used to make a job look MONTEREY Cal.MARTINEZ, Cal. bigger than it really is. The fisherman SANTA CRUZ " FORT BRAGG " should go to a reliable electrician before Main Office, 542 Clay Street PITTSBURG " EUREKA he signs any conlmcts and makes up his SAN FRANCISC, CALIF. SHELTER COVE electrical .'4pt:cification. After all, no one knows better than the fishermen just ·what is needed. THE WEST COAST FISHERIES PL4.NES AFFECT ALASKA "But the airplane is there nnw," he DECK MACHINERY TRADE added. "Distances that took days to Allan Cunningham's deck machinery eover can now be passed in a few hours. Travel by airplane is affecting the fish including his Purseine \Vinchcs and new 1fcGrath declared that several aviation type rugged Anchor Windlasses. shou,ld trade in Alaska, according to reports. companies offer regular service in the far A Chicago business man, Arthur lvlc be on every fishboat. These p1eces of north. There are more than 50 landing machinery are designed and built espec~ GratlJ, ,'recently returned from Nome, fields there. The regular dog run be states that where a flourishing industry ially for the fishing industry. When a tween Nome and Fairbanks has been dis manufacturer puts a 1nt of time and grew up to feed the huskies of prospec colltinucd in favor of airplanes. tors in quest of gold, the \vhirr of en thought into equipment .. or fishboats the gines is now the only sign of activity. fisherman owes it to himself to inspect the equipment and then sec that the best In the far north dog teams have been the is specified in the contract for ·the. boat. accepted carriers for years, and to sup OYSTER BED DISPUTE It is time the fisherman asserts hunself ply the huskies with foocl the fishing and demands that, which experience tells industry extended along the rivers and Through Attorney General William him, is best. reached large proportions. A. Stevens, the State of New Jersey has asked the Supreme Court to appoint a special master to take testimony in the boundary dispute between New Jersey SAN FRANC!ISCO and Delaware. SAN FRANCISCO The Supreme Court has been asked to decide the ownership of about 30,000 acres of seed oyster beds in Delaware bay, the only oyster beds available to New Jersey or Delaware '''ithout pur chases from other states. The Western Nefw Jersey first filed suit for the property in 1877, but after twenty-six Standard years of litigation the suit was dismissed. It is expected that a court decision will California be given in time to permit dredging of the oyster beds at the next season, in Fish Company )..fay. Fisheries · General Offices PRODUCERS AND 556-566 CLAY ST. Silver Season Good SAN FRANCISCO DISTRIBUTORS Sunset Fish Co. Reports Activity Operating our own Trawlers. During Year Careful Attention given all · PRODUCERS OF The silver side run of salmon this sea orders regardless of quantity son at \Vhecler was very good, although the chinook season was considerably be desired. low normal, according to a report on the Cal-Pac year's activity by \V. A. Snyder, manager BRAND of the company. The conunercial season at \Vheeler opens on August 1, closing on 11-Iarch 1. Distributors During that time the company handles, Northern California West-Cal in the order named, chinook, silvers, Bright Fall and steelhead salmon. The and Nevada BRAND company ships a large volume to the California trade, and also to the Middle \Vest. It also mild cures salmon for the "SEAFRESH European trade, a form of packing intro duced in the locality ·with the 1928 sea FROSTED Fresh, Frozen, Salt, son by 1-Ir. Snyder. Thus far the pack has been up to nor FILLETS" Smoked, Canned mal and promises to be a very satisfac tory year to both the fisherman and to the dealer. FISH The Sun~et Fish Company was former ly the Sunset Cooperative Fish Company, MAIN OFFICE, ·which operated in the fresh fish business We Operate Our Own four years and ·was later bought by the Foot of Leavenworth Street present owners, V·/. A. Snyder and D. ]. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Trawlers Harrison, both of \'Thccler, Ore., the two partners having been in the fish business P. 0. BOX 2232 for 11ine vears.- ?vir. Harrison was former lv identified with the Tillamook Consoli dated Industries Company engaged in BRANCHES: Santa Cruz, the fresh fish business. Mr. Snyder Eureka, 0 a k Ian d, Pittsburg, acted as assistant manager and secretary Branches: of the Sunset Cooperative Fish Company EUREKA, PITTSBURG, Del Monte Fishing & Packing previous to buying out the company. Co., Monterey This year was the first season of opera SANTA CRUZ, MONTEREY tion under the present manager, Mr. ll.i=;;;;;=====- Snyder.