The West Coast Fisheries, Volume 1, Number 15, August 1929
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Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/31855 An industry's log ou look with pride at your ships' logs-you know they Y stand for achievement. Canco's log records the markings of many new sales channels for the fish you catch-the charting of better trade routes. Years of creative research by our crew of technical men have led to the great development of metal fish packages-of unique closing machines. These have made it possible to market a better product than was ever packed in the past. The sardine industry-the tuna industry-and the salmon in dustry-together with others vitally concerned with the packing and marketing of fish-will find unusual food for thought by getting the up-to-date facts from Canco. We'd like to lay the r information before you.
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~~ We Have Equipped for The S. Larco Fish Company, Eight Trawlers-Therefore We Must Be Right. I r 6 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929 Table of Contents HISTORY OF FISH PACKING IN CALIFORNIA .... 7 By JOHN T. WATTS Beginning a Three-Installment Account of the Industry. FRESH FISH SURVEY OF PACIFIC COAST ...... 10 A Revie\v of the Trade in July, with Prospects for August. PURSE SEINERS GATHERING AT MONTEREY ..... 12 Approved OCEANOGRAPHERS SEEK FACTS ABOUT THE SARDINE ...... 13 THREE NEW S. LARCO TROLLERS ...... 14 THE ABALONE INDUSTRY OF MEXICO ...... IS ALBACORE, TO BE OR NOT TO BE ...... 16 By GEO. ROGER CHUTE THE FISH RETAILER AND THE CUSTOMER ...... 17 By WALTER R. SMITH EDITORIAL ...... 20 CASTING ABOUT ...... 21 THE BEST IS THE FISHERMEN ...... 22 C. ]. HENDRY SECTION ...... 23 CANNERS ...... 30 CHEAPEST FISH MEAL AND OIL ...... 34 WEST COAST NEWS ...... 35 UNIVERSAL NEWS ...... 35 FIRE PROTECTION OCEAN GOLD ...... 38 By H. DUNKINFIELD and CATHERINE ROGERS. RETAJLERS ...... 38 LUX is the best fire protection FRESH FISH ...... 39 for your boat today, tomorrow, KOULOURIS & WIEST SECTION ...... 41 or next year. Index to Advertisers 40,000 LUX cylinders are used all over the world. Over 1 00 fires Page American Can Company...... -...... Froul Cover on boats extinguished without Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine C'o... . -·······················-· ...... Back Cover Arthur Anderson Fish Co., Inc...... ___ 2 failure. Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Company.. 2 Anderson and Cristofani ______···············-- 3 American Fishermen's Protective Assn...... 24 Talk to your insurance agent, he Angelus \Vire & Iron "'arks...... 11 Arcadian Seafood Company...... 42 knows-and will show you how ! American Fisheries Company, Inc...... 42 I American Fisheries Company...... 50 LUX apparatus, with Under Booth Company, Inc., F. E...... 33, 41, 51 Brenner Oyster Company, J. J...... 46 writers' label, saves you money Dristol Day Packing Comtmny ...... 41 Busalacchi & Dros., P..... 47 and gives protection. llluementhal, M, N...... 50 Columbia River Packers Assn., Inc. __ ...... 2 Central Sheet Metal \Vorks_...... 29 Coast Fisheries ...... ··--················ ...... 45 Central Fish CompanY---············· ...... 49 LUX costs but little Central Fish & Oyster Company...... 49 Campagna and Asaro ...... _ _._,...... 50 Crab & Salmon Fishermen's Protective As~n...... 24 For boats under 50 ft. long. .$ 60 to $120 Dowden Company, I-ICnry ...... - Sll Ets-Holdn & Gah·Rn...... 5 60 Ft. to 75 ft...... 90 to 200 Empire Rubhet Company ...... 29 4X Fisheries ...... 47 80 Ft. to 120 ft...... 155 to 275 Fisilermen's Coop-cmtive Asscoiatirm..... 24 General Fisheries Corporation...... JJ Automatic or manual Gold Beach Pacldng Cnmtlany...... 42 Hartwell Company, Hobert 1\I... 31 Hendry Company, C. J...... ,ll Haines Oyster Company... 46 LUX DISTRIBUTORS Hall and Olsen...... 46 Hannula Jr. ltish Company, John... 46 Southern Northern Northwest Higashi Fish Company...... 48 California California Horman Fish Company, J. P..... 4R Alex Gow, Inc. Harbor Itish Company...... ,...... 50 Paul W. Hiller Hough & Egbert Harbor Sheet Metal \Vnrks ...... _ 29 Seattle Independent Fish Company...... 48 Wilmington San Francisco Isenberg, :r-.r. H...... SO Kidde & Company, Inc., \Valter..... 6 Koulouris & \ViesL...... ·II LUX AGENTS Kuhls, H. D. Fn:d...... ::!.l R. V. Morris. , ...... , , , ...... , ... , San Diego_ Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage (:!~:::--· -1-::! LRwrcnce & Co., J, E...... 45 Yacht & Motor Sales Corp .... , , . , , ... , ... Wilmington Larco Fi~h Company, S...... -18 Craig Ship Building Co...... , ..... Long Beach Los Angeles Fish and Oyster Co 49 William Sylva Co...... , , . , , , .. San Francisco Landers, Charles A...... SO 11-feredith Fish Company...... -!1 Beebe Co...... , , ...... Portland Matl~ews Fish Company.... ,17 Seattle Marine Equipment Co ...... , , . , , ...... Seattle Mutual Fish Company..... -.. -!!J Hoffars Ltd...... , . , . , , . , . Vancouver Marine Fish Company...... 49 ll[arine Prodncts Company...... -19 McCallnm-Lega~ Fish Company, Inc...... ::!1 l\IcCaffery Company 29 Marine Sheet 1\Ietal 31 Walter Kidde & Company, line. Newport Fish Company...... 45 Nehalem Day Fish Companv...... ·IS 140 Cedar Street Naylor, George JL...... :... 49 Ocean Fish Companv. ·IR Oregon Fish Compa-i1y ·15 New York Oakland' Fish Company...... ·12 (Coutinued on ·p~g~. ii)" THE EST COAST FIS ERlES PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST WESTERN fiSHING INDUSTRY
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History of Fish Packing Industry In California SALMON CANNING IN 1864 FOLLOWED ·BY NEW SARDINE, TUNA INDUSTRIES By JOHN T. WATTS ISCOVERY of gold in California and the rush of established in California, this is not true. Canneries, those in quest of it to the West Coast in the days or so-called canneries, were in existence before on the D of '49 and the years that followed have been in East Coast, but they were of no great importance, scribed on the nations' history in legend, song and except as the initial efforts of the new industry. Fish drama, and so marked has been the effect of the color canning in the United States began in 1820 in New ful gold days that behind them is obscured the fact that York, when two men by the names of Thomas Kensett less than a score of years after the yellow metal was and Ezra Daggett started canning lobsters and other Jound and when mining was at its height, there began sea foods. There was no scientific basis, so the develop in California an industry which today so far outshines ment of the industry was slow and expensive. H. M. the state's gold mining as to make comparison ri Loomis says in his book, "l\llarine Products of Com diculous. merce," that the canning of oysters and other sea foods began in Baltimore in 1835 and experimental canning Tire First Fislt Canned of sardines began at Eastport, Me., about 184D. Can That was the packing of fish foods, which took place ning is a modern method of preserving fish. It waS for the first time on the Pacific Coast in 1864, on the discovered by a French inventor, Nicholas Appert, in Sacramento River. Salmon was the first fish canned on 1795. By this invention Appert won a prize offered by the West Coast. The launching of this new business the French government. on the Sacramento was followed by a few years of inactivity, but within the next decade it was spreading The Birth of Salmon Paclting rapidly and before the dawn of the new century gave The first salmon cannery was located at Washing- ! promise of the huge industry that it is today. ton, Yolo county, Calif., not far from Sacramento. A · Salmon packing of course is not of major importance part of the building was originally a cabin situated on in California at present, but its beginning in the state the river bank outside of the levee. The cabin was as its first fish canned must be understood in order to built in 1852 and occupied by James Booker, Percy get the background of the industry in California as a \Voodsom and \Villiam Hume. Hume came to Cali whole and to appreciate the successive foundings a fornia in the spring of 1852, bringing a salmon gill net, number of years later of the three major fish-packing which he made at his home at Augusta, l\1e. In com businesses which dominate sea-food canning in Cali pany with the others he began fishing for salmon o_n fornia today-sardines, tuna and mackerel. T'he his the Sacramento River. It was the natural result of hts tory of fish-canning in California has three natural early training and experience and the first step on divisions: The birth of salmon packing; the beginning record toward the founding of the great industry of of the pack of sardines, tuna and mackerel and its today. Hume had fished for salmon on the Kennebec development up until the ·world War; the war period River, Maine. Shortly afterward ·william was joined and the boom ·which transposed an insignificant and in California by his brothers, John and G. W., the latter struggling young business into a $40,000,000 giant: returning to his IVIaine home a little later. Here we and the post-.:war period and its readjustments. These note the second incident in the direct chain of events periods will be taken up in this and successive articles. responsible for the beginning of the new industry. Although not absolutely new, the canning of fish Hnme met an old schoolmate, Andrew S. Hapgood, Was a young industry when it was started on the Pacific who had learned the tinsmith trade, and told him of Coast; so young, in fact, that it may be said that Cali the abundant salmon found on the Sacramento River. ~ornia and other \Nest Coast states played a vital part I-Iapgoocl saw possibilities for a cannery if the fish wer.e In the development of the business. \iVhile it has been as plentiful as he was told and Hume returned to Cah said that the first fish cannery in the United States was fornia to consult with his brothers. 'l'he idea was. 8 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929
greeted with enthusiasm and Hapgood came VVest, bringing funds and equipment for the new enterprise. In 1864 the first salmon was canned. That year the Hume brothers and associates packed 2,000 cases. The following year they put up the same amonnt and then the infant industry languished for several seasons. There was little more until 1875, when 2500 cases were produced and the Sacramento River salmon pack reached its peak in 1882 with 200,000 cases. :r..!fean while, canneries were being established at other points in California. A cannery \vas built on Smith River in 1878, but it operated irregularly. On the Klamath River, which enjoyed both a spring and fall run of salmon, a cannery was established, located at Requa, in 1888. It operated occasionally. The total California canned salmon pack during 1912 was 33,200 full cases, of which 15,000 cases were credited to the +{lamath River Packing Company at Requa. The Hume brothers extended their operations northward from the Sacramento River because of lack Can Mak~ng Was Part of the Cannery's Task in the Old Days. Photo of fish there. The causes of decrease of salmon in the Show:> Wilbur Woods, Now Head of the California Fish Corporation at Sacramento are told in a bulletin of the U. S. Fish Extreme left. The Calendar Says May, 1909 ' Commission, Vol. 7, 1887, which says that for the four 1892, it put up 20,000 cases of sardines in quarter years previous the river had been filling with debris pound cans of the usual type, 2000 cases of one-pound from the hydraulic mining, which choked up little round cans and 7000 cases of two-pound cans. Appear streams in \Vhich the salmon spawned. The Sacra ance of the sardines was erratic and this and other mento overflowed its banks, leaving acres of young fish factors caused the sale of the machinery and shipment high and dry.. Incidentally, farmers used the fish for to San Pedro, where it was utilized by the Southern fertilizer. The second cause was that -fishermen caught California Fish Company, managed by the late Albert y~ung and old alike, crippling the restocking process P. Halfhill. in the river. I-Ialfhill continued to pack sardines in a limited- way First Cornplaint Against Seals until 1909, but in the meantime began to pack tuna. In The first complaint on record in v.rhich fishery folk Northern California, during 1!)03, F. E. Booth started blamed the seals and sea lions for causing depletion of ~ cannery at Monterey and in 1906 the Monterey Fish the fish in California-an indictment that is being read mg & Packmg Company,, later reorganized as the today by fishermen of the state-came at this time, Pacific Fish Company, had established itself. when explanations of the absence of salmon on the In a shed on a hack street of Monterey, Booth began Sacramento River were being demanded. Seals and in a small way about 1902 to experiment with sardine sea. -lions at the inouth of Golden Gate harbor formed packing. Real canning began in 1903 in a small build the third factor contributi11g to the_scarcity of the fish, ing on the -wtaerfront, now the sitC~OT a large IVIoilterCy .according ·to the records of the time. A herd of some cannery. He started with quarter-oils and a little later' 3000 of the animals congregated in the harbor and it packed larger fish, calling them mackerel to suit the was claimed that each seal or sea lion ate from twenty market then existing. Seven or eight years later the to forty pounds of fish daily. federal government ruled that they must be labeled sardines. Sardine Paclcing Begun Early canning was clone by hand flakin'g-, drying-in The Golden Gate Packing Company of San Francisco the sun and hand soldering of the cans. For the first was the first sardine cannery on the Pacific Coast,* t-hree years there was not even a power winch for hoist launching its activity in 1890. During 1890, 1891 and ing the fish out of the boats. The fish were hoisted by hand, pulled up in baskets and carried to the tank in the cannery. Under these conditions the pound oval· pack of 1\fonte rey was developed and well established at the out break of the ·war.. These two canneries, F. E. Booth and the Pacific Fish Company, were busy and others started in 1916. A successful method of fishing was also developed during the early years at lVIontere)r. During the first and experimental year gill nets were used, then in 1903 a purse seine was brought into play in the daytime. Booth furnished the equipment and the fishermen worked for wages. A Sacramento River seine boat was used. It· was a double-ended boat, carrying the net and the catch. The seine was circled hy hand from skiffs and pursued from the seine boat or the skiffs and pulled up between the fishing launch The First Fish Cannery South of Monterey, Starfed in 1892. Photo Taken 1908, when R 0, Wade Was President, A. P. Halfhill, Superintendent and and the seine boat. The catch was dipped out and into W. I. Turck, Who Loaned All Three of These Old Photographs, Was ,Secretary. The Cannery Was Located at Terminal Island, San Pedro, Near the seine boat as at present. the Site of the Present Ferry Landing The net was made of one-inch mesh No. 6 cord, *Will F. Thompson, Calif. Fish & Game, Vol. 7. twelve fathoms deep and 200 long. The fish were held August, I 92 9 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 9 -~ seized upon the albacore, or white-meat tuna, until then unrecognized commercially, and started a pack which has become world famous. Vlhile continuing his pack of sardines, Halfhill experimented with tuna and in 1906 began to pack seriously, directing his efforts toward it principally until 1916, when the war turned the tide back toward sardines. The situation at San Pedro was fundamentally dif ferent than that at ]\{onterev, where the one fish, sar dines, predominated. San Pedro had the advantage, with sardines available in winter and tuna in summer. O!her concerns soon joined the procession and by 1916 ten ftrms were engaged in packing tuna in Southern Califon1ia, supplementing their work by putting up sardines in winter. This situation provided the first great pack of sardines. Early packers which entered the tuna business were the Lower California Fisheries Company, the Pacific Tuna Canning Company and the Premier Packing Company, all of San Diego; the Half hill Tuna Packing Company, the South Coast Canning Flaking Was an Old Process, Long Abaniloned, The Women Are Spreading Company and the Los Angeles Tuna Canning Com the Sardines on the Table for the Flaking. Note the Old-Fashioned Dress; Bobbed Hair Was Not in Style Yet pany of Long Beach; and the Van Camp Sea Food Company of San Pedro . The pack leaped from 250 by pursing the bottom by means of a rope run through cases the first year to 115,000 cases in 1913, when nine rings, as there '\Vas no ~
Swordfish Season Opens in Southern California; Pipe This Big Fellow l Fresh Fish Survey of ' Pacific Coast PRODUCERS REPORT FAIR TO GOOD LANDINGS IN JULY; HOPES FOR AUGUST ARE HIGH r-'0NSIDERING the Pacific Coast as a whole, the most of which was taken by canneries, however, and \...... 1 fresh fish business passed through a fairly pros 50,000 pounds of sea bass. perous month in July, but looks fonvard to better The opening of the swordfish season was one of the catches and better markets in August, in anticipation most important features of the month in Southern of which producers from San Diego, Calif., on the California. Good shipments of it began to move east south, to Alaska on the north are putting their houses ward and the destination of most of it, Boston, the in order and limbering up their machines of produc famous swordfish port, was said to be paying good tion. prices. July was an odd month; a month concerning which The Southland opened its eyes to the fillet, with the one can make no blanket statements; can set down no realization that in it was a new and promising phase general rules of the state of the business. Activity of fish distribution. Producers began to mobilize their and inactivity, hit and miss, touched each fish-receiv forces to promote their respective brands, as the opin ing port from the l'v!exican line to Canada. There ion became crystalizecl that in Southern California was were a few good runs and numerous poor ones, ac an exceptionally good market for the fillet. The Van cording to reports from along the coast. Camp Organizations received their first silica gel In Southern California car lot of Nordic fillets of haddock from the East, Receivers saw little fish in Southern California dur which was sold out in three 'veeks, according to C. :NL ing July, with the exception of one week during the Small, manager. A second car was received at San middle of the month when a good run took place. It Pedro about the first of August. Likewise, the Los consisted principally of barracuda, although there were Angeles Fish & Oyster Company was making elabo more quantities of yellowtail and sea bass than during rate preparations for distribution of its Sea :Maid brand the rest of the month. of fillet of haddock, according to Jack Deluca. Dis Swordfish began a good run off San Diego and some tributors express themselves as well pleased with the 90,000 pounds were brought to that port by the first reception accorded the fillets. of August. Other fish received at San Diego included Aid given by state and federal health authorities, 25,000 pounds of halibut, 240,000 pounds of yellowtail, urging the extensive use of fish on the menu during August, 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 11
the summer months, was responsible for greatly stim excess of last year at this time, the bulk of the catch ulated summer sales, not only of fillets, but other fish being made up of Kings. \t\Teathcr conditions have in crcneral, which is one of the reasons why producers been favorable and the outlook for the immediate fu amf dealers look forward to good business in Aug-ust. ture is pronusmg. Silvers are showing up more freely Although receipts of barracuda \vere better than and with the tapering off of the Chinook, Silvers will 111 ost any other fish in Southern California, they \Vere no doubt be abundant. However, a considerable run not up to average. Barracuda sales, in fact, were hurt of Kings or Chinooks may still be expected. Good to by receipt of hook-and-.lin~ barracuda along the coast. moderately large catches have been the rule all along This fish was caught pnnctpally by pleasure fishermen, the Oregon coast during July. Newport, Ore., has had and while it was not handled correctly it did hurt the a very fair supply of fish for some time and the troll business of the markets. No complaint could be reg ers are running in at all large points where deliveries istered against the \Veather at any time during the ca11 be ·made from there South to Coos Bay. month and failure of heavy landing-s must be attributed "Prices for salmon to the fishermen have ruled at a to the unsuccessful attempts of fishermen to connect pretty stiff level, and while the movement of stock properly with the fish. to the trade has been free, nevertheless, a recession in August 1 the purse-seine season on barracuda began, price from that now being paid is not impossible, al but up until press time receipts had not been of cor though not so very probable. responding size. However, it is expected that the trips "I-Ial1but at this point has been scarce during the will incerase as the month grows and that because of past two weeks, but schooners are expected shortly the purse-seiners barracuda will be the principal source from which time fonvard supplies will be more or less of fish in August. The month also holds in store in regular till along in ·November. , creasing quantities of swordfish, it is anticipated, as "Inside river fishing has been very slow. The Rogue this fishery is getting under way in excellent style. shows very little in the way of production and it would appear that that river had permanently lost its sum The Bay District mer run of fish. The Umpqua, Siu.slaw and Coquille, The San Francisco bay district is in the middle of likewise Coos River, are non-productive for the time its salmon season. Rough weather kept the boats in being. Striped bass fishing has ceased." during the early part of the season, consequently, the The Rail·way Express Company has started a Reefer catch to date of July 25 was not quite up to normal, service for all points south of Portland. It is antici although the good weather prevailing through most of pated that the placing of I. c.l. shipments in a refriger July enabled the fishermen to work regularly with a ated car will obviate the necessity of re-icing ship consequent increase in landings. ments en route. Producers expect this will work out, ; The month was featured by some rather freaky runs but state that they will be pleased to hear immediately of fish, which for a day or so simply swamped the from any of their customers should their fish not arrive tt: receiving stations, then the fish would disappear and in the same excellent condition that has been their · the same process was repeated over again a few days common experience. later. Fort Bragg and Shelter Cove are producing From Newport, Ore., Crad Meredith of the Newport most of the fish. Santa Cruz and l'ilonterev both have Fish Company reports that the Silver run h~s been the had what could be characterized as a f;eak run of best in years, coming in steadily since th~ first of salmon, more salmon having appeared than has been June. \Veather has been so good that only four days the case in many years were noted on which boats couldn't go out. Large The mild cure pack is not quite up to normal so far; Silvers arc showing up and mild curing has been whether it will be or not depends, of course, upon the started. A good pack is expected. Chinooks have run of fish. Although the catch is not up to normal been coming in fine and large. About double the as yet it should be at least as good as in former years, amount has been packed over the same date last year. due to the fact that the season has been extended to Four companies are operating at Newport. Halibut later in the fall. has been slack since the Fourth, hut was coming in Despite the good weather prevailing through most well by July 25. Chinook was also beginning to run of July, the catch of flat fish in San Francisco was toward the end of July, mostly large and in fine shape. only fair. Sacramento River has been closed for the Trade in general in and around Portland, Ore., re last two months and the season is opened again on ports J. H. Reeves of Reeves, Inc., with the fish mer August 1. Striped bass also opened on August 1. chants, is about such as could be expected during the Conditions at Santa Barbara are good and promising. summer months. Notwithstanding the fact that Fort Dragg and Shel "Conditions along the Columbia River are better so ter Cove are producing most of the fish, the catch far as the middle reaches of the stream are concerne9, of salmon has been only abo.ut 50 per cent of normal as the buyers of that portion of the river report heav at Fort Bragg, reports late last month stated. Pre ier tonnage than last season," he says. vailing winds are believed to be responsible. "At present (July 23) they are just getting a good start on the seining grounds of the lower river, and Soutlr.tvestern Oregon they will not know for a few days how this will com "In reporting general conditions for Southwestern pare with previous season, but they are hopeful, and Oregon at this time (July 24) it is very refreshing to indications are that the season will be a good one note that July has turned out very satisfactorily from from nmv until August 25, when they close the spring a production point of view," says Chas. Feller of Chas. season. ~eller, Inc., which incidentally provided one of the "The off shore troll fishing for salmon, \vhile not Important news events of the month to the trade by out of the ordinary, is satisfactory to the boats, no merging \vith the Empire Fish & Cold Storage Com lar!Ze catches, but f{shermen have been able to bring in pany and forming a new company, the Feller Fish fre~h small catches on the Oregon coast during June Company. . and July to date. :rvir. Feller says: "In fact, deliveries have been far in ( CautimU"d ott Page 19) 12 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929 San Pedro Purse Seiners Gather At Monterey LAMPARAS SUPERCEDED AS NO-LIMIT LANDINGS TO FEATURE THIS SEASON
T NEVER has happened before. This business of a quantities. \i\Then a larger ship is used, and sixty or big purseing fleet gathering at :rvionte:ey upsets all ninety or a hundred-and-twenty tons are dumped into I the "dope." During years of unvarying precedent a single deep hold, the bottom fish are often crushed the great northern pilchard port has come to he recog- into a state in \vhich they are not fit for use as canning nized as the stronghold of the lampara outfits, and now stock. l\'Ionterey wanted its fish to can; crushed or that the purse-boats are invading the former exclusive mutilated sardines were not consistent with the stand field-and in large numbers, too-old timers are ready ards of quality that were sought in the industry there; to predict that the era of the round-haul rigs is drawing even in the instances of the lampara boats, catch-limits to a very proximate close. of a given number of tons per day were regularly im Twelve to 20 purse-hoats from San Pedro will gather posed upon the fleet, to the dual end that the catches be at lVfonterey on August the first, when the sardine sea not thro\vn together too much in any single hold, and son has its official opening there. Among these are that the actual canning capacity of the factories be not :;everal well known "killers," it being recalled that the exceeded. Now, however, with a higher p:oportion of Yukon was reported as high boat at the Cape, during the stock destined .for the fertilizer works, the condition the last winter Yellow Fin seining there. Also, two or of the fish as landed is of lessened consequence. The three brand new vessels will join the band, one of these prime topfish of each fare can be packed, the bottom being still on the ways in the Larson yard at Fish layers reduced. Harbor. Two or three of the San Pedro seiners expect to Alaslw V es.•els Come South remain in IVIontcrey only until operations commence in their home port. Coincident with that happening the But perhaps the most outstanding feature of all is Alaska boats ·will arrive, so that the northern visitors that two or three Puget Sound and Alaska vessels are will take the places of the vessels leaving for home. coming southward to engage in the sardine work. These will arrive tardily, owing to the fact that they will not To Fix Sardine Price be available until the end of the salmon seining in The San Pedro price for fish will be paid at Monterey, northern waters this fall, but sometime in November according to the assurances given the fishermen. The they are to come southward, and at that time it is ex Sardine Canners' Association is to fix the exact price, pected that they will join with the fleet already fishing but it is promised that the rate will not be less than for the Hovden cannery and reduction works. It will the $11.00 regularly paid at San Pedro-and possibly he interesting to watch the result of this innovation more. This fact, together with the flatness of the pres and to see to what extent the seasonal migration of ent Blue Fin tuna season has fired many a boat captain fishing craft may develop. with a desire to enlist with the Monterey fleet, but only Changes in the state's sardine laws, which permit of some 15 or 17 vessels are known actually to have estab greater amounts of pilchards being run into fertilizer lished definite relationships with the packers there. plants, are cited as the causes now being evidenced by As against all this activity and interest in purse lVIonterey's observed tendency to "go purse-seine." For seiners it is an enlightening and a pertinent observation years that port has been the chief seat of the lampara that not one new lampara is being- built at Monterey. net, and of its fishing system. Until the present these As against this the Pal of San Pedro was reported re small, bargetowing, hand-hauling outfits enjoyed a cently as sold to a g-roup of Nionterey Italian netters, monopoly of the seining of the place. It should be said, and in addition to this there is loud and insistent rumor however, that two purse-boats that operated there last that a $19,000 job will soon be launched in that port for winte: demonstrated superior qualities for long trips, local owners. Hovden already owns the Agnes of New quanttty hauls, and bad weather working. Now that J\.1ontercy registry and is also using his New Admiral catch-limits are not apt to be applied to boat catches (of San Diego) there. Besides these boats he has .in again, the superior abilities of the purse-seiners are to service some 5 lampara rigs, has obtained the services be utilized. \ilfholesale harvesting is to be the feature of the Mabel and Yukon of San Pedro, and is the oper· of the vear. ator who will employ the Alaska and Puget Sound net Undoubtedly the big purse type of vessel would have ters later in the season. entered the Monterey fishery long ago had it not been for two discouraging factors. One of these was that List of Purse Seiners the fish in that port are mostly taken close to shore, So far as is now known, the following is the com- near to the factories. Big boats have the greatest plete list of boats: advantage when making long runs; for close-in fishing I. Mabel of San Pedro; to fish for Hovden. smaller craft compete at good advaptage. The second and most prominent reason was that when small seiners 2. Yukon of San Pedro; to fish for Hovden. freight in the catch, either aboard the fishing vessel 3. Agnes of New Monterey; to fish for Hovden. itself or in a towed barge, the fish are not crushed or 4. New Admiral of San Diego; to fish for Hovden. compressed while lying together in comparatively small (Coutimud OTJ Page 18) August, I 9 2 9 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 13 Oceanographers Seek Facts About the Sardine LIFE HISTORY OF THE PILCHARD BEING WORKED OUT; SCIENTISTS FIND EGGS
CEANOGRAPHJC research is the science most character, have been published by Dr. Frances N. Clark, recently added to the activities of the technical o( the Laboratory. 0 staff of the Sta.te Division of Fish and Game. Only a yea'"' a!.!o it was instituted as an adjunct to the JJ1ore Data Necessary numerous investip-ations being carried on by the Com Now however a time has arrived when more data is mercial Fisheries Department of that organization, and require'cl· than ca'n be gathercfl from fish landed in the already there arc distinct indications that valuable dis markets or at the canneries. The scientists working on coYeries have been made. this matter want to know about the spawn, where it The whole problem of administering our fisheries is deposited, how it hatches, what the first young fish hinges upon an understanding of the subject with \Vhich look like, and what becomes of them. These things are not to be revealed to one standing on the shore; investi we deal. Intelligent conservation measures can be gators must go out into the ocean and with nets and p··onntlgatcd. only aft<;r the secret.s of the life and habits especially devised instruments discover each of these of the spectes needmg protectiOn are fully known. Guess work and haphazard efforts are larg-ely futile; essential facts in turn. These requisites entail the en listment of oceanographic methods and procedure, and it is necessary to know how fish breed and how they now this work has been undertaken by Eugene C. Sco grow before their exploitation can be made wise, and before we can know how far we can let the fishermen field, graduate biologist. Oceanography, in its relation to fisheries, is not en g-o in utilizing a species without doing damage to the tirely new, although an innovation on this coast. Euro minimum of breeding stock necessary to keep up the supply in the sea. pean investigators for some years past have bee~1 c?n ducting studies in ocean deeps, and on the At1anttc stele Some fishes are easily studied. Sorts that inhabit of our continent Dr. Henry B. Bigelow, of I-Iarvarcl rivers and lakes can be seen from the very shore. Like University, has been prosecuting a life-history work in wise ocean fish that run up streams to spawn present relation to the mackerel, in the Gulf of IVIaine. His re · a problem comparatively simple, at least in so far as searches in this particular field commenced somewhere their fresh water experience is concerned. But the kinds near ten years ago; and have been effected at the in that live in the deep ocean, and \Vander around pretty stance of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. His much all over it, are far harder to observe. The mack professional standing is that of a foremost oceano- erels and tunas are examples of this perplexing sort. grapher of this nation. . Also, to a less degree, the pilchard or sardine. In 1928 the Hopkins Marine Station (of the bwlogy department of Stanford University) at Pacific Grove, One of First Investigations California, was visited by Dr. Bigelow, who gave One of the first investigations undertaken by the courses there in oceanography during the university State Fisheries Labaratory at Terminal Island, Califor summer session. Throughout his stay at the scientific nia, was that of the sardine. This fish was of marked institution he was assisted in his activities by E. C. Sco economic importance at the time the Laboratory was field, who derived much benefit from that association, founded in 1919, and has continued in first rank ever and through it rounded out his scientific training to fit since. \\Tilliam F. Thompson, first director of the then himself for the post and responsibilities which now Fish Commission's resca1-ch activities attacked the prob are his. lem of learning the life-history of the pilchard-a study Although general preliminary work was commenced in which every fact gleaned from nature was a discov in the summer of 1928 in lvionterey Bay, actual concen ery and triumph, for not a thing was kno\vn of this trated efforts did not begin until April of this year. At relative of the herring excepting such generalities as that time the patrol boat Albacore was requisitioned for any fisherman might observe. Starting from nothing, the investigators, and was outfitted with the nets and Thompson and his staff of scientifically-trained workers Cl.pparatus necessary for the type of exploration con gradually unravelled a portion of the mysteries of the templated. M. J. Lindner, normally stationed at Mon life, habits, and reproduction of the pilchard until. in terey, accompanied E. C. Scofield, remaining aboard 1921, the first official publiCation of results 'vas made in two months. In that time the vessel concluded its a special Sardine Number of the Fish and Game 1\tfaga sampling in I\{onterey Bay, and voyaged northwar~ as zine, a state publication. This was followed in 1926 by far as Eureka in quest of eggs and fry of the sa:chn.e. the first special bulletin treating of this subject, the The results of this expedition were largely negattve lll Work appearing under the title of "The California Sar so far as the pilchard study was concerned, for although dinell and credited to the joint efforts and authorship of large numbers of fish eggs of a variety of sorts were W. F. Thompson, "vV. L. Scofield, Elmer Higgins, and taken from the sea, none of these proved to be sardine 0. E. Sette. Since that time a number of contributions spawn. have been added to th~ library on the subject, some of these written by W. L. Scofield (who in the interim has First Eggs Founcl >Ltcceeded to the directorship of the Laboratory) and Early in June the Albacore anived off San Pedro to tnore recent' studies, highly .technical and complex in (Conti11rted DTl Pa[/C 18) 14 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929
Two New S. larco Fish Company Trawlers Built
SANTA BARBARA FISH PRODUCER FORMING ONE OF THE BEST FLEETS ON PACIFIC COAST
ITH THE LAUNCHING of Barbara, is one of the most prominent two ne"\v trawlers, the S. Larco fresh fish producers and distributors W Fish Company of Santa Bar on the coast. Halibut is one of the bara has eight of the craft, the most principal fish produced and shipped by modern trawler fleet on the Pacific. the company. Sebastian Larco is now The trawlers are to be named the retired and the business is actively Ulpiano and the Chico, after the head> managed by Ulpiano and Chico Larco, of the company. The launching by who are \veil known to the trade aU Anderson & Cristofantt, the builders, along the coast. of Hunters' Point, Calif., is significant ':!~he new trawlers· are sister boats, for another reason. 46 feet in length and all of the Diesel It illustrates the trend in modern tra\vlers of the company are powered fishing craft, a change from gas to with 50 h.p. Atlas-Imperial engines, Diesel engines. Chico Larr.o says: which the heads of the firm say are l "This will be a total of six Diesel we ideal for the type of work in which the j have. You will no doubt boats are engaged. The f kno\v we are disposing of modern trawling- gear was all our gas boats as fast as supplied by the ·weeks { possible. '0,1 e have sold two I-Iowe Emerson Company and haYe three more to get of 90 Market Street, San { rid of and just as soon as Francisco. rJ'he hardware ! we do we are g-oing to and electrical work was ~ build four more·- Diesels, provided by E ts-Hokin & I which will give us a total Galvan of San Francisco ~ of ten Diesel. The gas and \iVilmington. I boats are too expensive to The new boats are of the 1 operate under the cbndi most modern design and tions at present." I of both boats are: 46 feet ~~~~ The S. Larco Fish Com""\ in length, 13-foot molded · pany, founded many vears beams and five-foot molded ago by natives of Santa depths. Each craft will (Coutimud ort Page 19) i I
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Top photo shows Anderson & Cristofani, owners of the yard, which is shown in center. Below, left, the Ulpiano, and right, the Chico August, 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 15
An Abalone Diver Preparing to Go Down to the Ocean Floor in Search of the Delicious Molluslts The Abalone Canning Industry of Mexico I GROWING BUSINESS REACHES TOTAL OF 10,000 CASES C;lNNED ANNUALLY I ANNING of the mollusk abalone has been going 'They arc collected by divers-Japanese and Mexicans forward along the coast of l\llexico for perhaps making the best for this difficult phase of the work, ac l C ten years, ·while the drying of abalones has been cording to the Bernsteins. I recognized as somewhat of an industry, if a small one, The divers are garbed in regulation diving suits and for the past fifteen or twenty years; but it is only of the old-style hand pumps to supply them with air have recent date that, with the introduction of minced aba . been replaced with niodern compressors and tanks, thus lone as a practical commercial pack, the business has insuring more safety and comfort for the man who risen to proportions of significance. works on the- ocean floor. There is one diver to a crew, Dy this it is not meant that the minced abalone, pre or perhaps two, if work is done on shifts. The man I pared for American use, outstrips the whole-meat pack, who attends the "life-line" or air tube, two men who I which is produced for export to the Orient; for such is handle the abalones as they are brought to the surface ~1ot the case yet, but producers ·with some insight in baskets and one man who manipulates the oars, mto the young industry point to the minced abalone as steering in the general direction taken by the diver having the future of the trade. It is now making its working below, comprise the crew aiding each diver. market and with that market established-fundamental The boats used are usually flat-bottomed skiffs twenty I excellency of t-he product being vouched for-the one to thirty feet in length. round tall cans packed for Asiatic shipment will fade Divers often operate in depths as great as sixty feet, Into the background, it is averred. as it is frequently necessary to go deep to get the . \iVith this prophecy on record, which seems to be the mollusks; too, they are of more uniform sizes than in Significant thing about- the abalone-canning business at shallower water and easier to handle. The divers can the present time, it might be well to sketch the story only work in near-perfect weather. The water must of hunting and packing the mollusks along the Pacific be clear and calm. A ton of abalones is considered an I below the international line. average good clay's catch for a crew. i' The meats arc removed from the shells as soon as Morlern Metlwcls Employer! they are hauled on board the skiff and the shells, which Operations are scattered along the coast, that of the are sold as a by-product, sacked separately. Abalones l\riarine Products Company, managed by the Bernstein can keep several clays in the shell, but this is unneces brothers, one of the principal-producers, centering about sary, as they soon reach the cannery. \Vhen the crews Cedros Island. Abalones there are much more plenti return to their camp at the end of the day's work, all ful than in ealifornia and consist of three or four differ of the meats are loaded onto a tender and taken at once ent species, varying in the main, in size and tenden1ess. (Coutimud VTl Page 19) 16 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, I 92 9 Albacore, to Be or Not to Be, Is Question PAGE CAPTAIN ALLBRIGHT OF THE HARUNA, NOW TROLLING SALMON UP AT EUREKA Dy GEO. ROGER CHUTE
ELL, it's getting around to that time of the year This species was then very numerous, said the skipper. no\v \vhen some of the fellows are displaying \i\Then hauled on board they threw themselves about, W considerable nervousness about "them alba disgorging"squid in quantity. There is no better indi core.JJ T'o be, or not to be, that is the question. A cation for a return of the albacore, said Dill, who insists question long without an answer. And as the tension t.hat the disappearance of the species is not attributable increases, and the expectant ones await developments, to depletion, but to the idiosyncracies and unstable there always is a tendency for the less fortuitious to traits of the fish. lean on the optimism of the "old timers,'' to be encour Allbright gets some strong backing from observa aged by the assurances of the hopeful ones, and to tions made by B. Hansels, of the Van Camp Seafood. derive sustenance and support from the wise old heads !vir. Hansels has been here since the beginning, and who declare that thev can see·in the sea natural indica knows the genesis of our theme as only a few men do. tions for a big- run o(fish this year. For none will admit He tells of times when albacore brought only $30 a ton that the "Chicken of the Sea" has gone to the land of -heads off and dressed, at that. This was the standard the Dodo. Indeed not! The schools merely arc on price in 1915, and the boatmen considered themselves vacation, they say. fortunate to have so extravagant a market for a fish The fact is, this albacore discussion goes on pretty that had a few years previously been entirely without much all the year around. ·with canneries offering $300 sale. In 1917 the competing canners bid up the tariff to a ton, and the boatmen all rememberin_!;; what quanti $37.50, and glee filled the hearts of the jigmen. "Easy ties of fish still were in the sea at the time of the last money," and lots of it. Then in 1917, unfilled orders rich fishing in 1924, the jiggers expect that the whole for canned tuna again boosted fish prices, this time to horde of cutlass-finned "Genna genno" will some day $70-almost a 100% raise. But the end was not yet. l come plunging home again to invade old haunts and By 1924 the rate was up to $220, and all hands went familiar feeding grounds. And what a harvest there wild. Everybody built jig-boats, and tuna trolling came will be! When it all is over we shall write "-and a t.o be the port's grand and especial activity. good time was had by all." But there were too many fish. They came in mil This prospect of eventually hitting it rich is con lions. 'l'he boats entered port clay after day loaded to stantly in the jigman's mind, and so even throug-hout the guards, canneries clanked and steamed all night, and the winter months the wharf-talk is of currents and tem warehouses filled np with cased goods representing a peratures and bait schools and squid. Why, as far surplus. The fish factories had thousands of dollars back as last l\.-'Iarch there was a regular water-front tied up in this stock; they were paying interest on that symposium held on the fish dock at San Diego, the money. To continue packing indefinitely would have excitement having all been started by the old prophes meant that someone eventually would fail, of which the sional, "B. S. Bill." result would have been the prostrating of the market in the liquidation process. It was a crisis. Bill's N arne is Pete Now, there are a lot of unusual things about "Bill." Fishermen Went on Strike A trivial one of these is that his name isn't Bill at all, The packers held a conference. Whether to cut the but ~ete. Therefore, gentlemen, meet Captain Peter fish-price and continue canning cheaper material, or Allbnght, master of the Haruna. Bill is ex-everything whether to stop packing entirely, was the question. when it comes to fishing, and still a sort of champion in Decision was had for the latter course, so offerings for several lines-especially all sorts of line fishing. Dur tuna were reduced from $220 to $120, and of course the ing his eventful life he has trawled the North Sea. fishermen went on strike-as had been forseen. dragged shrimps at Fernandina, Florida, and halibutteri On the last day of the fishing l\!Ir. Housels went out in Alaska. He has been a Grand Banks cod man, red to the grounds. All day he cruised over a 60-mile area snapper hanrl-liner in the Gulf of Campeche, lily-iron shot full of leaping fish. That night the boats brought hurler on the swordfish boats out of New Bedford, to dock 550 tons of albacore-the biggest catch of the salmon troller, crawfish expert, and is conceded to be season-and next morning the boats tied up. one of the canniest jigmen on this coast. \Vhat became of the millions that were not caught? They all look to Dill for "dope." He dispenses large Subsequent years were so very lean that the men who amounts of it-but don't get the notion that we are saw those 1914 schools declare that not any consider talking about oriental pipe-joy. Bill. reads the signs of able portion of the quantity then extant has been cap· the sea, and so when he came in to dock recently and tured since. :Mr. Hansels and Frank Van Camp concur told that he had seen more squid down-coast, along Baja in that during the first 23 days of the 1924 run some California, than in five years past all hands "stood to" 11,000 tons of long-fin were landed at San Pedro. The and listened. ' fishing was there cut off mid-swing, in the very height The Haruna landed :'1 finp ln~rl of wh1te fish that dav. fContimud ott Pane 18) August, 1929 T H E W EST C 0 AS T F ISH E Rl E S 17 The Customer of Today and the Fish Retailer MAN WHO SELLS SEA FOODS OVER COUNTER MUST DEMAND HIGHEST QUALITY STANDARDS
By WALTER R. SMITH
HE consumer of food products, and that means Despite the p.-enerally gloomy reaction of the retailer all of us, as we are all consumers of food,-is in when quizzed on the popularity of sea foods and the T an enviable position as compared to his forebear statistics showing the small per cent consumed, this ers. ·There was a time when getting enough to cat was department some years ago felt that the public would a problem for the average man. Today it is rather be interested in learning more about sea foods and in "\Nhat shall we eat?" Think of the multitude of food 1927 the department prepared and published a cook products available today, the huge sums spent in book entitled, "Five Hundred \Nays to Prepa"e Cali adYcrtising them and the convenient and attractive . fornia Sea Foods." Particular emphasis was laid upon forms in which most are sold. Demand is created by the desirability of buying fish when in season and many the seller rather than the appetite of the co11sumer. suggestions as to the health ·value of sea foods were The retailer, ever reflecting the wishes of his cus scattered throughout the book. The book met with tomers, stocks only those products for which they unqualified success and so far we have been unable to express a demand. Naturally he will exercise his judg keep up with the demand. Thousands of people hear ment and sales ability in selecting brands favoring ing the announcement over the radio or reading of it those which are easily handled and on which he can in the newspapers have written for copies of it. The make the most substantial profit. response from the public has been greater and more Do sea foods, particularly fresh fish, fit into this enthusiastic than that of the retailer. It seems that picture? The majority of the 3000 retail fish dealers the consumer is a great deal more anxious to become 1 of the state of California say uno." They handle fish, acquainted with sea foods than the retailer is to sell l ~ as they say, because, mainly by reason of religious ens them. , tom, there is a demand for it on certain days. As nearlv as can be estimated, fish constitutes less than Sea F oorls Exltibitetl 3% df the nation's food, and California's percentage is To further call the attention of the public to sea below the nation's average. England; for example, foods we recently exhibited at the Annual Food Show consumes about twice as much fish per capita as the held at Los Angeles in the Ambassador Auditorium; United States. It is evident that only a small portion an exhibit was made of all available species of Cali of the public's food allowance is spent on fish. fornia fish, both frozen and fresh. The cases were attractively dressed and changed every clay. The in Questionnaire lssueci terest shown by the public was surprising; 120,000 A good deal of light was thrown on this by the attended the show and most of them we think went answers retail dealers gave to a questionnaire the State home with a new interest and appetite for fish. Fish Exchange sent to over a thousand retailers The department also has endeavored to keep the throughout the state sometime ago. Over SO% re public posted by means of the radio of the fish most plied-an amazingly high average, and some very abundant each week. This is being done because we pertinent facts regarding the retail sale of fish were realize that among other harriers to the sale of fish is brought out. Vve found that the majority of the deal that of price and that the high price of fish is caused ers answering the questionnaire did not know whether mostly through the buying habits of the public which they were selling more fish today than they had in have concentrated the demand for fish on three or four previous years, and of those that had this record over spectes. 90% said~ that their sales were less than .n previuos '\'V e have found by our contact with the public that years. Friday's sales represented 40% of the total fish neither the retailer, or the statistics on the subject, business; the average dealer only sold fish 3 days a reflect the true attitude of the consumer towards sea Week. Over 90% of the sale of fish was concentrated foods. That there exists a great potential market for upon four species: Salmon, halibut, sole and hatTa the products of the sea has been demonstrated by the cuda. Rock cod, bass, codfish and tuna represented keen interest displayed in the cook book published by about 5% of the total sales. Only 15% of the fish sold the State Fish Exchange and the response to sugges is in the form of fillet, Many complained about the tions on the use and proper preparation of sea foods price of fish. broadcast over the radio and appearing in the columns Lack of interest in the sale of fish seems to be the of the newspapers. principal reason for falling off of sales; the very fact This potential market can be made an actual one if that most of the dealers did not know whether or not retailer and producer join hands to make it so. On the their fish business was increasing or decreasing indi producers, as the most Yitally interested, falls the cates that they pay little attention to that end of the greatest responsibility. They must provide sea foods business. -Lack of interest explains why only a few in more attractive and convenient forms, advertise and species of fish are sold in any volume and why the fish guarantee their products. Retailers have an interest counter is open for business only three days a week. -lost sight of by many-in seeing these changes come 11:1 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929
about. Hundreds of them have stated they handle fish as a convenience to their customer. This really means Model fishing Center that they have to sell fish to hold their trade and keep Dr. ..A. ·C. Robertson, assistant technologist of the customers coming to their store. A virtue could be bureau of fisheries, gave San Pedro, Calif., a clean bill _made of necessity by the retailer making a profit pro ducer out of his fish department. of health as a model fishing center, in a statement in \Vashington, D. C., recently. Dr. Robertson is so 1vell To make ·profits one must take interest in his busi satisfied \vith conditions in San Pedro's fisheries that ness. \Nlth the retailer interested in the sale of sea he has decided not to visit that city this year, he said. food, demanding quality, ease of handling, all the pro ducers would have to fall in line or be eliminated. The The problem of deterioration of nets due to the ac relailcr after all is the "front man" and improvements cumulation of moss, slime and other matter that clings in quality and methods by the producers mean little to them, is almost non-existent in San Pedro harbor, I unless he is interested enough to take advantage of the official declared. He visited San Pedro to look into them. this and other matters a year ago and found that the process of fouling or net deterioration seldom troubles nets used there. OCEANOGRAPHERS SEEK FACTS 1 "I am going to several coast cities/' Dr. Robertson ABOUT THE SARDINE was quoted in the daily press, "but I see no need of (Coutitiued from Page 13) going to San Pedro again. It is getting along very I test out local waters. There the first success was had, nicely." Dr. Robertson said that the bureau was keenly for in the Santa Barbara Channel, seaward from Point interested in the expansion of the sardine industry and ( incente, the plankton nets of the scientists strained from the canning of California mackerel, both of which ire the ocean large quantiti,es of spawn which, although soon to claim the attention of fisheries bureau not yet conclusively identified as such, are confidently scientists. believed to be those of the sardine. These eggs were taken in nets of gauze, and were l found floating close to the surface of the sea. They are ( almost colorless, transparent, and when floating in the Study Oyster Setting sea are almost totally undetectable by the naked eye. The Bureau of Fisheries has maintained a small lab Scofield also captured specimens of the newly-hatched oratory at the plant of the Connecticut Oyster Farms fry, t~1ese being fa perhaps a half inch length. Un Company at ]\lilforcl, Conn., for several years, during hatched eggs contained embryos in various stages of which time much has been learned about the oySter at development, thus several successive steps in the devel the various stages of development, including an analy opment of the infant fish are apparently established. sis of the causes of the great variations in the annual 1,he Albacore is continuing its egg-fishing southward, production of seed oysters. Results of these investiga along- the coast. It will presently be seen operating off tions have been published in Bureau of Fisheries Doc La Jolla and San Diego, where a special hunt will be ument 1054, "Investigation of the Physical Conditions made for small-sized fry believed to abound there. If Controlling Spawning of Oysters and the Occurrence, present intentions meet no obstacle, the prospecting will Distribution and Setting of Oyster Larvae in :Milford be carried to the territorial limits of the United States. I-Iarbor, Connecticut," by H. F. Prytherach. Perhaps eventually, when the value of these studies is fully comprehended, co-operative plans may be worked out with the fishery administration of lVIexico, whereby PURSE SEINERS GATHERING future expeditions may project their surveys along AT MONTEREY more distant shores, in Baja California. (Coutimu:d from Page 12) VVith each new discove:y the mystery and ignorance 5. Sie11a of San Pedro (Linde Pkg. Co.); to fish for with \vhich this subject has always been surrounded San Carlos. will gradually be dispeiied until, fina1Iy, we may come into full possession of all of the pertinent facts relative 6. Conquest of San Pedro (brand new) ; to fish for to the life-history of the California pilchard or sardine. Crosse. 7. Florida of San Pedro; to fish for Del ]\far. 8. Ambassador of San Pedro; to fish for Cal. Pack. ALBACORE, TO BE OR 9. Milwaukie of San Diego. NOT TO BE 10. Old Timer of San Pedro; to fish for Bay View. (Contimud from Parfe 16) 11. Marie Jones of Monterey. of the season, they say, and O\'Cr production was what d:ove them to it, compelling them to procure the fisher 12. Pal of San Pedro (recently sold to Monterey). men's strike. 13. The new vessel now building in the yards of Al Everybody says that there has be.en no laok of an Larson, l"ish Harbor. chovies-a favorite albacore food-for three years past. 14. At Seattle the former owner of the Amazon is Our Captain Bill has told of the early spring squid said to be building a new vessel, now nearly completed, schools down south, along ]'viexico. l-Ie also has pre for this fishing. dicted the return of the sword-fin shoals for this year, During the last week the San Pedro vessels above and we hope that he is right. Could it happen, at the named all' have withdrawn from the almost uniformly p~·esent price of $300 a ton for fish, .. the jigmen would unprofitable quest after Blue Fin and have been busy all become rich. And now, with the market for white re-hanging their nets "\vith the pilchard webbing. All meat tuna so widely developed, it would be hard to were expecting- to report for duty about the last of the imagine a catch of albacore so great that it \voulcl month, and to be ready for business the evening of the swamp the packers. first of August. August, 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 19
~ FRESH FISH SURVEY OF THE ABALONE CANNING PACIFIC COAST INDUSTRY OF 1\IEXICO (Contimu:d from Page 11) (Coutimud from Page 15) <~The shad season in Oregon was very light at all to the packing house, where they are usually canned points this season; quality of both shad and roe was the next day. Chews are constantly kept moving from not up to former years. one locality to another in order to give the abalones an "The past two weeks the halibut market has been opportunity to multiply, although little fact is known extremely high, very light catches coming in on the of thchahits of this mollusk,* fishery scientists admit. Oregon coast. This in a measure is attributed to ;lbalone Canning shortage of good bait. \i\Teathcr conditions arc now The first process previous to canning is soaking in ideal for off shore fishing, and fishermen are hopeful brine for several hours, which removes all foreign mat of g-ood fishing. ter from the meats. VVhen the meats are canned for "August the first will open Nehalem River in Ore the Oriental trade in the one-pound tall cans, they are gon as well as South Bend and vVillapa Harbor in packed, split, two or three pieces to a can. Catering Washington. This will bring to the. fresh fish trade a to the new domestic demand is another matter. The new supply of Chinooks. Most of the Chinooks nsed meats are chopped into small pieces and packed with 1n the fresh fish trade have come from Puget Sound a small amount of brine only in half-pound "flat" cans. to date." The minced abalone;:. brings on the market at present Washington. and Alaska about $6.50 per case of 48 cans. It is estimated that Northern halibut is at a premium, largely because the pack in :Mexico last year, including both minced of the fact that the fish is hard to be found. Reports and whole, was approximately 10,000 cases. While the late in July said that half of the Seattle, \Nash., hali domestic market is young and needs promotion, the but fleet was tied up. Eastern halibut is being moved Oriental trade is well established and has eagerly west to some extent, but the situation indicates that seized any amount produced on this side of the Pacific there will be a shortage and high prices this fall and ever since the first Chinese immigrants walked along winter. the California shores and found the shellfish. Califor K. I. Sifferman of the Alaskan Glacier Sea Food nia shipment of abalones to the Orient, of course, is a Company writes from Seattle that business has shown thing of the past, state law having knocked it in the a normal demand for this season of the year. An in head with a statute protecting the abalones by pro crease during the month of August on Alaska crab hibiting export of the domestic caught. meat is expected, due, largely, to the fact that the Abalone gathering and canning is at a standstill in closed season on crab.s in California started August 1. Mexico from about December 1 to the middle of April. Recent reports indicate that there is a fair run of The southern republic prescribes by law a closed sea fish in the Icy Straits and Ketchikan districts in South son from December 15 to J\tfarch 15 and bad weather eastern Alaska and a good run of Reds in the South usualli, prevents the op·ening of the season before ·westcrn district, while packers in other localities are April 15 and as a general rule brings it to a close at below the nonnal production. the end of November. DiYers claim that the shellfish are found most abund antly between the three-fathom line and the ten-fathom IDSTORY OF FISH PACKING mark and that as the depth increases the mollusks be IN CALIFORNIA come smaller. One theory in connection with this fact (Collfillued from Page 9) is that abalones are in a constant process of moving up failed to find fav-or with the public, clue to its darkness from greater depths as they grow larger and that some in color and fibrous texture. unknown condition drives them toward the surface . . Abalone Pacldng Those who have had much practical experience gath Prized for many centuries by Orientals, particularly ering the abalones emphatically label as a myth the the Chinese, but only of recent years recognized as a story often told of persons being caught under the shell food hy Americans, the mollusk abalone is becoming a fish while trying to pry them from the rocks and drown factor in the sea-food canning industry of California eel while thus imprisoned. It is admitted that the suc and for this reason the first packing of it should be of tion power of the rock-clingers is great, but once a hand interest. The Chinese dried or dried and smoked the or tool is inserted under it, this power is broken, divers abalone and the first inimigTants to Califon1ia at once explain. Men who have been connected with the aba recognized the local mollusk as a valuable food. They lone industry for a score of years or more assert that began to gather them and as nearly as 1879 the industry they have no authentic knowledge of anyone ever hav was under way. During that year abalones of an esti ing been· trapped by the .abalone, the choicest, most mated value of $127,000 were gathered. delicious and expensive food taken from the sea, accord The canning of abalones began in 1905 at Cayucos, ing to epicures and connisseurs. Calif., and during recent years an important industry *An1• scientific d'ata on the abalone will be appreciated by the editor. has sprung up. In 1917 five plants packed it, bnt in 1921 only three plants remained. One was at East San TWO NEW S. LARCO Pedro and the other two at Monterey. Some 1,481,170 TRAWLERS pounds of abalones were taken in California during (Continued from Page 14) 1921. ·while the mollusk is found from Mexico to carry a crew of five men. Alaska, fishing is almost entirely confined to the coast, The boats will be taken under the wing of Lee Davis, south of :rvfonterey Bay. Japanese are the most expert \vha has been with Larco for several years as port abalone fishermen. captain and superintendent of the fishing fleet. Lee is known as a Diesel engine expert and forinerly was em -.EDITOR'S NOTE: "History of the l<'ish·Packing Industry in California" Wtll continue in two more installments, the one next month relating and ployed by the Standard tank lines as a Diesel expert nnalyzing the -influence of the \V-orht war on the industry and the third and chief engineer. He also was for a good many years Carrying the history from the close of the war to the present date, with the Post·bellum readjustments and new developments. with the vVorkspoor Diesel Engine Company. 20 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1
THE WEST COAST fiSHERIES A Journal Devoted to the Fisheries of America's \Vest Coast. l~u!Jiished at San Pedro, California, the Fourth Largest Fish M. W. ELEY, Publisher Receiving Port in the \Vorld. JOHN T. WATTS, Editor l Telephone San Pedro 4890
SLtbscription Rates: $3.50 per afmum in the United 25th of the month previous to date of Issue. Copy for Str tcs and Insular Possessions. Foreign Countries, Advertisements or directions for changes must be in $4.50. the publisher's hands Ten Days Before Closing date. I Advertisers \vill take notice that forms close on the Advertising rates on application. New Yorlt Representatives, room 1217 154 Nassau Street, New York City, tele: Beeltman 10033. New England Representatives, 45 Commercial Wharf,Boston~ Mas!!., tete. Richmond 1060. I! ! Meet Mexico Halfway Voice of the fisheries 1 NCLE SA~l is showing signs of a wil.lingness. to HY \iVCF is the v?ice ~f the commercial fisheries ( U meet IVIextco half way on the fish tanff questton W of the state of Caltforma, supported one hundred :Mexico's answers to continued pleas for a lower duty per cent by all classes engaged in the industry-fisher on the fish taken in its waters have stressed the fact men, cannerymen, wholesale and retail dealers, and em that the United States requires a duty on the fish. braced so whole-hea:tedly in such a short period since VVhile it is not proposed to abolish this duty, a move the founding of this magazine, is a question which ment is under way to reduce the one-cent per pound should not puzzle the most casual promulgator of import duty to half a cent, effecting all fish imported "whys" and "yvherefores" if he but looked at the facts. overland and that brought from l'vfexican waters by The \l\T est Coast Fisheries is the only publication of aliens although they be residents of the country, with its kind; that is, it is the only one that ever made a the exception of cannery fish, which is exempt. serious attempt to bind together the factions of the The most significant feature of this proposed reduc industry in one common business fraternity, for the tion is its demonstration of a spirit of co-operation good of all. This magazine is not a canners' journal, toward l'vlexico, which should lead to favorable export it is not a fisherman's paper, it is not a fresh fish sheet, tariff reductions by the republic to the south of us. If nor is it a retailers' publication. It is a magazin-e for the United States should cut in half its duty on all the all and in representing all it has done something-and fresh fish contributed by l\{exico, it seems reasonable this is said not in a spirit of boastfulness, but to stress that lvlexico should reciprocate by reducing to a more the necessity for closer unity-that has been a crying reasonable figure the duty it extracts on exported fish. need for many a day. That would be good business. It is safe to assume that, with both duties lowered, the amount of fish caught Branches of the fishing industry are so close together in Iviexican waters would be increased and hence the from the standpoint of their wants, and so far apart revenue\ to Mexico swelled, despite any reasonable from the standpoint of their desires, that ultimate and reduction that might be made. worth-while success can come only with the active aid If the tariff revision goes through, and it is under of such an impartial ititermediary as \VCF. That is stood to he receiving strong support from influential one of the main reasons why it is the voice of Cali fornia's commercial fisheries. quarters, it is also conceivable that still more friendly relations will be cemented between lVIexico and the The other is perhaps more readily perceived. The American fishing industry, particularly if Mexico fol \Vest Coast Fisheries is published at one of the princi lows the lead and slashes its own duty. pal fishing centers in California, by a man who has Heavy duties never have increased :Mexico's revenue been actively engaged in that industry for years. If from fish exports. The duty was one of the reasons VVCF were published in some other state or country behind the development of the high-sea cruising live it could hardly lay claim to being the California indus bait tuna boat, which gathers its fish beyond l\{exican try's voice. jurisdiction and pays tribute to no one. In that event it could hardly be more than a faint It is not to be supposed that l\{exico will ignore any echo. This magazine represents the entire \iVest Coast; friendly overtures of the United States in this and other its subscribers and advertisers are listed from the far similar matters. The lesson imposed by the big high north to the far south; but in California it does more sea boats, we think, has been learned. The Pacific it is published right on the ground (or the wharves) Southwest fishing industry should look to l\1exico with. where important things are transpiring in the industry, great consideration, for from its waters, the Gulf of and being in California, it speaks. for that state. That California in particular, is to come a great proportion of its spokesmanship is coordinating and promoting the the fresh fish needed in the future. interests of the industry is undeniable. 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 21 fish frozen On Boat Big Merger Planned Instead of using salt, a French vessel, the Zazpiak An ambitious program which is under way to merge bat, is freezing the fish she catches on the Grand all fish-packing canneries from Ivfonterey to San Diego, Banks this year. Europeans are constantly carrying Calif., leaked out just before press time. According 011 experiments in an endeavor to develop a satisfac to statements by good authority, Los Angeles' money torY system. of freezing ?sh on board tra\vlers. The interests are promoting the consolidation, zazpiakbat ts a barkcntme of about 1,000 tons. A The California Packing Corporation is one of the wooden tunnel, cork insulated, is fitted amidships and concerns said to be considering selling its fish can through this the fish are conveyed. Large fish are neries. The Del J\1onte people are understood to be hooked singly to the belt and smaller ones are put into anxious to get out of the fish-packing business, clue baskets and suspended from the chain. The tunnel is h1 their many other interests. filled with brine at 200 degrees C., and the fish are held long enough to be completely frozen. How many plants will go into the deal cannot be determined at this early date, as the merger is just INDEX TO ADVERTISERS being promoted, but it has been definitely larned that (Continued /rom Page 6) the Van Camp Sea Food Company, Inc., will not even 1'ali!CC Pis!~ Company ...... 47 consider the proposition, according to an executive Portland F1sh Company ...... ·15 Protane Bottled Gas Company ...... :!9 of the company. It is believed that several others, I'alarlini, A., Inc...... 50 People's Fish Company .. 50 with Van Camps, will stay out. The Franco-Italian Pacific-Mu~ua.J Itish Company, Iuc.... ·18 Packing Company is one, according to Joe lviardesich, l'ionccr F1slucres ...... 48 Pacific Coast Fish Company ...... 4fl manager, who said that the Franco-Italian was not Ra~k Shipbuilding Co ...... -...... 20 Ripley Fish Company, Inc...... ·16 interested. Reeves, J. H...... 45 Sardine Cam1ers' Assn. of California. . . 33 It is understood that the plan is to blend the nearly Star Fish Company...... _ ...... 41 a score of fish canning companies from l\'Ionterey down Sanitary Oyster Company...... 41 Sun~ct Fish Company...... 45 the coast into one large corporation, ·which will op San Juan Fishing & Pacldng Co., fnc ...... 46 Cockwell & Sons, H. \\',...... 41 erate the various plants. Standard Fisheries ...... 51 San Francisco Intern. !fish Co...... 51 Stell<~.r Fish Co...... 50 San Diego Fisheries Co...... 50 Star 1:isheries ...... - .. 49 Boat Tax Varies San Luis Fish Company...... 47 Suttora Fish Co., Frank...... 48 Tax on fishing boats is assessed by different systems San Pedro Fish Co...... 48 Standard Fi~heries Co...... 48 in the three states of the Pacific, resulting in consider San Diego I~ishermen's Assn., Inc...... 24 Salazar, Luis 1\f...... 24 able confusion and a tendency upon the part of the Sehastian-St11art lfish Co...... 2 fishermen where the tax seems to be rather high to go Stan1fonl Foundry Co...... 23 San Pedro Grocery & Stlpply Co ...... 2-l- to some port where it will not be so great. Southem California JaJJanese Fishermen's A~sn...... 24 San Pedro Tioat Builr!ing Co., Inc...... 29 Southern California boat owners became acutely Shocliey Boiler \Vorlcs...... 29 aware of the inequalities of this situation 'vhen the Toyo Fisheries ...... 33 Tint's ['ish l\farkeL...... 45 1929 tax assessments were issued by Los Angeles '!'acoma Fish and Pacldng Company... - ...... 46 Tong Sung Company...... -l-7 county. A sudden change in the policy of exempting Vmpqna ltish, Storage and ·g·~·ppjy"C~::: ...... 45 boats of over 50 tons was made and out of a clear sky Unitnl' Fish Company...... 47 Union Fish Company ... .. 50 bills for personal property tax were tendered owners Union Tce Company...... 29 of these larger craft, imposing a tax which will run up Van Camp Sea Food Company, Inc ...... ,lJ Van Camp Organizations ... -----·10, 50 -into the thousands of dollars for some of the larger Vitalich, Vincent N ..... , ...... 49 W~elts-I-Iowc-Emerson Co. ·I craft. Needless to say, protests were voiced at once Western Salt Company.. .. ----- ...... 13 and petitions presented to the County Board of Super Warrenton Fisheries Co ...... 41 Washington Fish & Oy~tcr ·co., Tnc ...... -!! visors, the outcOme of which is awaited. Inequalities Western Fish Company ...... -15 exist all along the coast. Whiz Fish Company ...... ·16 Wrctlen Packing- & Provision Co ...... 49 Seattle, \\Tash., owners of fishitu.~- vessels also got Western California Fish Company .. - 51 Wilmington Sheet :\fetal \Vorks ...... 29 their tax bills a short time ago. The statements for YDUtlg's 1\-farket Company ...... 50 Zankich Bros. Fish Co ...... 49 1929 taxes showed increases of from 75 to 300 per cent.
Producers, Distributors, Wholesale Dealers FRESH SALMON PACIFIC FROZEN HALffiUT COAST PICKLED COD AND SUPER QUALITY SMOKED HERRING SEA FOOD Producers, Packers and Exporters British Columbia and Puget Sound MILD CURED SALMON DRY SALTED SALMON SCOTCH CURED HERRING DRY SALTED HERRING Telephone ELiott 2929 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON 22 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929
Southern Cross Returns Complete Nerv Tulia Albacore Fishing Poor; After Reportetl Lost and Sardine Boat Duty Still Stands A new combination purse-seiner and After ·having been reported lost m By LUIS SALAZAR heavy weather, Capt. Tonv Zancich live-bait boat, to fish for both sardines brought his live-bait boat Southern Cross and tuna, is being completed for Mesuna Albacore fishing has been very poor to port at San Pedro on July 11, telling a & Matsui, by AI Larson at East San Pe only ten permits having been issued thi~ story of a 95-milc hurricane which was dro. It is the G'cnc
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made ready in time to be too late, and off the tar upon it. The 1lf abel is one of Blue Fin Run Is Short did not get a fish. the boats now cutting up its net so as to Those among our readers who were at hang sardine webbing for the Monterey Big Fleet of Tuna Seiners lias a Poor Catalina Island during the week of July fishing. Seu.qon Fourth can relate to all skeptics of the It is interesting that the Adriatic is head numbers of Dluefin boats cruising cease boat for the Blue Fin run-140 tons or These are sad \Vords, hut nevertheless lessly up and down the Channel. Three less (some say 134), and the second ves one hears it repeated on all sides that to ten of these were in sight almost con sel has only some 90 tons. Practically Hluefin season has been a failure. "VVc stantly, and the shO\ving of a fin was all of the catch vms landed by about_ a have a fleet of more than 80 purse-boats enough to precipitate a general race, com dozen lucky ones, and of the 60 or 70 out," a canner· recently remarked, "and mencing at all poittts on the compass and others there were perhaps a half hundred yet the catch-viewed in comparison converging at the S{)ot where some tuna that caught nothing at all. lv!r. O'Hara with what was done last year-has been liad broken water on the trail of flying of the Southern California company, esti~ so poor as to represent a loss to the ves ftsh. \Ve once saw seven boats gather mates that hardly more than 1,000 tons sels, when you figure them all into an over one such place, and all through the has been landed-certaihly not more than average." afternoon four of them hung hopefully 2,000 tons. Others say 2,500 tons. This I around, trusting that there would be an acute shortage of the big local contributor Here >vas one instance where the other showing. [ fabled saying was a truism, for the seiners to our annual tuna pack has greatly in who were the "early birds" this summer But now many of the craft are giving tensified interest in the hopeful appear certainly "got the worm." The season up the hunt. A number of these are ances of the first part of the albacore commenced with most propitious show changing over their nets preparatory to season. ings of fish. Off Oceanside there •vas a going to Monterey for sardines, and oth fine schooling of tuna for something like ers are tying up, or merely ''lying in" HEAVY RUBBER NEEDED a fortnight, and the boats lucky enough at Fish Harbor or in the San Pedro chan Heavy rubber in articles of clothing to nels, waiting for something to happen. I to happen to cruise over the populous shelter the fishermen are insisted u·pon grounds struck it rich. The Fish and "\Ve got out too late-! haven't seen a by them, according to George C. Shouse, ( Game Commission has not yet cast the fish," said Captain ]. Bernsten of the manager of the Empire Rubber Company, figures up into totals, but there arc plenty purse-seiner Mabel. ]. Bernsten, Jr., one of 717 East Ninth street, Los Angeles. The I of boat captains around the Cannery Row the crew, adds to this that they never had nature of the vocation calls for the most who will tell you that they consider about the net wet; the only catch that was made seaworthy clothes, such as the Hood Red half of the total catch to have been was when he put a jigline over the side Booth with the grey_ sole. Towers water seined up in -those few precious days. side and hooked a credulous Bonito. The proof oiled aprons and clothing, the finest Unfortunately, many vessels had not at gear shows black and shiney-it has lain quality manufactureD by the largest mak that time gotten their nets re-hung for unused on the turn-table and has not been ers of -..vaterproof clothing, Mr. Shouse the new fishina; a large part of the fleet handled enough to soften it up or wear says. - I ' I' Rask Shipbuilding Co. Luis M. Salazar i Furnishes a Complete Service BOAT SHOPS MACHINE SHOPS SHIP BROKER WORK BOATS MARINE SUPPLIES REPAIR WORK GAS ENGINES Unsurpassed Service to Fishing Boats MARINE RAILWAYS NAVAL ARCHITECT aud DESIGNER 306 Municipal Pier Building f T clephone Main 1225 SAN DIEGO Foot of Grape Street SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA I
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F. BUONO, Gen. Mgr. P. CRIVELLO, Secretary S. CIAMINCINO, Pres, A. FARINA, Secy. San Diego Fishermen's Association, Inc. Crab and Salmon Fishermen's -KEENLY ALERT- Protective Association Directing the wants of our Membership, aggregating MEMBERSHIP OVER 250 BOAT OWNERS 85 Boats, average 4 Fishermen to the Boat. Directing the requirements of its membership Telephone Franklin 2714 Telephone Franklin 4989 Meiggs Wharf 825 Harbor Street San Diego, Calif. I San Francisco, Calif. SAN PEDRO GROCERY AND M.P. SUGLIAN,_Sccy. SUPPLY Fishermen's Cooperative Association co. MEMBERSHIP 65 PURSE-SEINERS Wholesalers and Retailers of Imported and Average 8 Men to Boat Domestic Groceries, Meats and Canned Goods Correspondence invited relative purchases of Ship Supplies our members. Information gladly given. Telephone 1348 Municipal Wholesale Fish Market Bldg. NICK POBOR, Prop. San Pedro, Calif. - Municipal Fish Wharf--San Pedro, Calif. 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 25 Electricity On Boats Boat Tax Protested
Fishermen Enter Electrical Age; Demand Los Angeles County May Levy Fee Radio Sets on Craft Over 50 Tons Intentions of the Los Angeles county By R. H. GALVAN Board of Supervisors to levy personal }.{uch has been written about the fish assessments on all fishing boats of over jug industry in all its phases. There are, 50 tons, becoming known late last month, however, few things ever written about caused a storm of protest and immediate the development of the boat itself. VVe preparation of a petition to file -..vith th{~ find the trend is toward bigger and bigger board. boats and that they are also becoming Boats under 50 tons already arc taxed faster and faster. Some e:'en have radio as personal property. Heretofore craft sets installed to commumcatc to other over that tonnage have been exempt boats in the same flet.!t. It is truly a from the tax because they have been con revelation the way the fishing boats have sidered as carriers in addition to fishing changed. The improvements have been boats. M. P. Suglian, secretary of the accepted and adopted almost as f~st as Fishermen's Cooperative Association, de thev have been perfected. The wnter of clares that the boats were built not to thiS articles not well versed in the actual evade the tax but because it became neces fishing conditions or about such things sary to haul fish long distances. as the bait used or the nets required, but The tax would affect a score or more he is very familiar with the construction of boats, both purse seiners of the larger of the boats and all the gear that goes type and the big live-bait boats, and in into them from the main engine to the the cases of the more expensive craft smallest auxiliary and it is about these the $90,000 and $100,000 boats-might that this is written. mean a tax of as much as $1.100. \Ve were glad to find the fishermen The fishing associations and cannery turning to such items of comfort as the operators have taken up the matter on new bottled gas stoves for cooking, the behalf of the individual boat owners. It radio for entertainment and many other is declared by them that the personal modern accomplishments that no one property assessment for large fishing Top photo shows the: deck of the CIPANGO, boats might prove prohibitive and that deserves to have more than the fisherman, recently launched at the San Pedro Boat Building whose trip at best is not one of comfort. Company yard; in center is A. D. Lee, marine for this reason the San Pedro and Long It has been many years since the fisher superintendent of the California Packing Corpora Beach industry would be in danger of tion for which Y. 1Nakasuji, at left, owner of the losing some of the boats, which might be man began to use electricity for the light boat, will fish; insert is Anton Brajevich. su11erin~ ing of his boat and in those- old days any tendent of the yard and below is a vi~ of the taken elsewhere, where no such tax was kind of wiring was good· enough, for the boat on the ways ready for launching. made, to fish. people in the electrical business at that time must have had no conception of the New-Type Tuna Boat Goes Into Water ·work a fish boat had to do or else they at San Petlro Yartl fishing liability were not giving value for their pay. About four years ago when two of the first large A tuna boat of a nt:w type, the Cipango, When the Fish Boat Owner Is LialJle fishboats, each 86 feet long, were built, was launched at the San Pedro Boat for Injury to llis Crew they were wired in a correct manner and Building Company yard at Terminal Is since that time all the larger boats have land on July 23, following celebration and Just -..vhen is the fishing boat owner been wired in much the same way. All conviviality over the event on the Sun liable for injurv to his own crew or for wires arc put in conduits (galvanized day before, participated in by hundreds injury to anofher boat's Crew, or for iron pipes) and all outside connections of members of the fishing colony. property damage? This question, of in made water tight. These two old vet The Cipango's distinction lies in the terest to fishermen in view of the occas eran boats, along with the first 110-footcr fact that it has a raised deck which gives ional accidents on boats of the Pacific of the same year never had a moment's it the space of a boat 117 or 120 feet in fishing fleet, is answered by marine law trouble from wires breaking or corroding. length although it is but 100 feet from yers. The batteries used new arc either the bow to stern according to Anton Bra The owner of the boat is always lia Edison steel battery or the Exide iron jevich, superintendent of the yard and ble for personal injuries sustained by the clad seal battery. These batteries neces builder of the craft for Y. Nakasuji, who members of the boat's crc-..v up to the sarily cost more to buy, but being a better will fish for the California Packing Cor extent of what the lawyers term "cure -value than cheaper ones, are more eco poration. The boat has a beam of 25 and maintenance," under the marine law. nomical in the long run. There are Edi feet and a 100-foot depth. It is sched The boat is liable for the man's mainte son batteries in boats that are over 18 uled for completion by the last of August nance even though he may be unable to }'ears old and still in excellent condition and will cost over all approximately work, but the boat is not always liable and there are Exide batteries in service PO,OOO. The new boat.will have Lipman for any loss of wages or share that might a very long time and still going strong. refrigeration, Byron-Jackson pumps and occur because of the disability. As to It certainly pays to put in the best elec a Shipmate stove. cure, it usually results in application of trical equipment for the lights on the such first aid remedies as may be avail A 375-h. p, six-cylinder Western Enter fishboats and above all to have it put in able by the captain. by a reliable electrical company. The prise Diesel engine is expected to give Upon arriving at a port, however, the fisherman should specify the different the craft a speed of 12 knots. Mr. Naka captain is duty bound to send the in sizes and types of equipment he wants suji will be skipper of the new boat, jured men to a marine hospital, if one is and then request that the boat he wired \vhich will carry a crew of twelve men. at hand or to a municipal hospital. The according to a specification drawn up at M. Maeda will be engineer of the new injured man's period of disability ceases the time of the signing of the engine boat. I. Ona, Mr. Nakasuji's brother when official discharge by the marine contract. Ets-Hokin & Galvin of Wil and partner, will become captain of the hospital as ready to return to work ac mington will be more than glad to help \Vestern Enterprise, which the latter now cording to the decisions of Federal any fisherman to decide what should commands. courts. If an injured man is sent home go into his boat without obligating the Launching of the boat -..vas an occasion from the hospital "able to walk" but still fisherman in any way whatsoever. for considerable celebration by the fisher unable to return to work, the vessel is men. The boat yard, decorated with obligated for his maintenance until such -Editor'!i"Note: Ne:'Ct month this article will he American and Japanese flags, -was the time as the marine hospital designates f9l!owed by tile fin:t of a licTIC!i of articles on the scene of an ali-day barbecue. Among Sl2:es :llld tvpes of clcctrica.l motots and gencr· him as completely cured. ators best llitited to the fishing iJOat. These arti the notables present \Yerc officials of the The boat is als9 liable for property cles arc being prepared bv Ets·Hokin & Galvan boat building company and A. D. Lee, damage resulting from collision with an of \Vi!mington and San Francisco, as their long e:xpcricnce in Pacific Coast fishboat electricity marine superintendent of the California other vessel or dock or any other floating seems admirably to fit them for the task. Packing Corporation. object, or even a fish trap. =2=6======~T~H~E~~W~ES=T====C=O==A=S==T===F=I~S~H~E~R~I~E~S======~A:u~gu~s~t,=1~9~2~9 Three Boats launched California Seasons
San Diego Ways Shirl Down Trio of Big Salmon, Striped Bass, Shad and Tuna Fishermen Catfish Fishing Opens
Three big tuna fishing boats, among Open fishing seasons, at present or -for the latest and most powerful of the ne?-r future, according to the Califor Southern California fleet, :;lid from the tl~e ways of the Campbell Machine Com ma Ftsh and Game Commission's ab stract of laws (1927-1929), arc as fol~ pany at San Diego during the month lows: of July. They were, in order of launch ing, the Navigator, July 6; the Invader, Salmon: Opens in district 5 Septem July 11; and the Sao Joao,. July 27. b~r 1; closes September 5 for Tidewater Representing a total investment of h..lamath River and for districts 6 and 7· close to $300,00(}, the boats, which wiJl closes August 15 for districts 10 and 11! be completed late this month or early ol!ens August 1 for district 12b and dis: in September, make a substantial addi tncts 12 and 13; closes August 15 in dis tion to the fleet. The Sao Joao is the tricts 15, 16, 17 and 18. largest of the three, being 121 feet in Striped bass and shad: Opens in dis 'length. It is being built for Captain tricts 10, 11, 12, 12b, 13, 16 and 17 Au Sabina Y. !nos, 1
engineer with a bewildering mass of May Fish Off Hawaii valves, tubing, pumps and -..vorking parts; above all, they were air-injection in type. American engineers, accustomed to sim Glenn Mayne Departs on Cruise to ple domestiC machinery, failed to keep the Tropical Waters Italian Diesels running; engine trouble brought to a quick end all of the first trips; it was decided to replace the ma By GEO. ROGER CHUTE chinery with engines of our own make. Provisioned and outfitted for a two Two 350 h. p. Atlas-Imperial Diesels u1onths trip, with 18 hands aboard, and occupy the engine room of the Glc11n .ilfa.Jtlte· with its pair of new twit;t Diesels ~rum today, and give the- vessel the best speed ming a vtbrant song of mtght, the btggest it has ever attUined. In the recent trial' of the tuna cruisers, the Glenn Ma:,mc, put run from San Francisco to San Pedro the out from San Pedro in the late afternoon ship logged an average of 13.8 knots at of July 21. 265 r.p.m.-full speed is 280 r.p.m. When "Our plans are somewhat indefinite as "crowded" the vessel would therefore yet" said C. W. Nickerson, master, "but make better than 14 knots. we 'will first go down-coast, for recent ad This is really the first real tuna cruise vices are to the effect that fish are now for the ship-previous operations were abundant off the Cape (Cabo San Lucas, handicapped with engine grief. But in Baja, California) and the islands." 'I'he the present instance the boatmen have Captain further remarked that if their ex gone out with high hopes and ful1y con pectations meet with disappointment in so fident. In their bait tanks arc stored far as the grounds off Cabo San Lucas some 1,500 scooos of live bait, swimming were concerned, he would continue south comfortably about in 160 _tons of sea wa ward to the Revilla Gigedo group of ocean ter constantly replenished. A 45 h. p. islands, prospecting the Socarras, Clip Western Enterprise auxiliarY, connected perton and all of the other rocks and by shafting, drives the centrifugaJ sea land bodies dotting the· charts of that water circulating oumps, and the elec pristine region. The purpose expressed tric generator -which charges the Exide IS not to return without fish; if the tuna bank of storage cells for the lighting cir are not found in accustomed habitat, the cuit. Fuel tanks of 20,000 gallons capac~ vessel will look into new waters, and the ity insure a cruising range of 9,500 miles' possibility that the banks of Hawaii may -refuelling away from the home bunker be visited is not at all remote in the mind ing port is not 1ik"Cly ever to be neces of the navigator. Indeed, had it not been sary! that tuna were reported schooling in large numbers off middle Mexico, the Glenn In cargo capacity the Glenn .ilfaJ.tnc tops MaJ'IIC would have laid a course directly the list of all the tuna fleet. Four hun for Hawaii in the first place. Rumor has dred tons of fish are needed to give this so insistently reported the Sandwiches as shio its load. Refrigerated storage is its destination that most fishermen still made possible through the employment _.believe that the vessel actually has cleared of a Lipman freezing unit. actuated from for Pearl Harbor or Hila. off the main engines or, when at anchor, This ambitious adventuring of the larg by the auxiliary. est off-shore bait boat afloat will be One thing more. This account would watched with keen interest by cannery not be complete without mention of the men, fishermen, and by engine men in cabin quarters. Here-to-fore we have particular. The packers will observe it talked of mahogany hunks, o( individual from the standpoint of men interested in reading lights, chests of drawers, long the possible enlargement of the fishing lockers, and private looking-glasses, but field and consequent growth of supply. this is the first time that we have seen a Boat owners will look to it for indica full set of over-stuffed furniture going to tions of a means to larger profit. Engine sea in the reception ro"om of a deep-sea· builders and vessel engineers will see in The Glenn Mayne, queen of the San Pedro fishing fisherman I If you are incredulous, and ~he cruise a test of the ne-..v Diesels just wish to convince yourself, call on Captain fieet, on drydock before starting its long cruise to mstallcd in the big cruiser, and perhaps Nickerson when the Clem~ Ma~me is next in for the first time we shall have a dem the South Seas port, and enjoy the divan yourself. onstration of what can be done by a fish ing boat power plant when operating on trans-oceanic schedule, like any freight carrier or standard commercial liner. It be added that the hull was designed and Fishing Strides is a far cry from the little 1-lung "naph built by Crowninshicld of Fall River, tha" motors of 1897 or 1900, rating 5 or 6 Massachusetts, famous racing yacht ar o,r maybe 8 horse-power and used in the chi teet, and builder of well known cup Forty Years Serving lmlustr:r Is Record httle 2-man Italian-style boats fishing defenders. Captain Nickerson feels much of Bay City Finn rock cod out of San Francisco on 10-hour pride in his able vessel, and states that trips, to these giant ffictal monsters of her under-water lines arc so fine as to Forty years on lower Market street 300 or 400 or 500 h. p. each, which go to thrill any ship--..vise man who appreci San Francisco-No. 90 Market Street, se.a on trips to the equator or to Hawaii ates boat beauty and recognizt:d work to he exact-have given the \Veeks~ With as little thought as the old guinea well done. Originally it was planned to Howe-Emerson Company an enviable in fleet used to put off for the Farallones. power the vessel with 2,000 steam horse sight into the fishing industry, which This writer predicted these occurrences power, but the conclusion of the World the co-ncern has watched grow from lit tnorc than two years ago, but the end is VVar prevented the actual installation of tle or nothing at all to the business it is !lot yet. Having now extended the cruis boilers and machinery, today. lllf? range ofour vessels to an extent suf VVhen the Gle11n lvfa)tne arrived on the And during all those years the com fbent to make possible any trip tlut \Vest Coast some few months ago it was pany has been most particularly con tnight be un-dertaken by an ordinary tramp cerned with the industry with complete ,steamcr, the thing that yet remains to be equipped with a pair of Italian Diesels 1 generating 240 h. p. each. These were ship chandlery service. The company argcly improved is the mode and means good engines, say the men aboard; they has several salesmen on the road and of refrigeration. That is next to come. were economical, burned the fuel cleanly, branches in Seattle and carries an open The Glenn lvfayne was constructed to U. ran -..veil and without excessive vibration, stock in Los Angeles. All products of S. · Government specifications, and was but certain inherent difficulties made their interest to the fishermen are handled, Intended to serve as a military tug. If use in the Pacific fishery inadvisable. It including controlling gear, marine hard that alone docs not speak eloquently is said against them that they were quite ware and paints. The concern also manu enough, or sufficiently loud, it ne(!d only complicated, and presented an American factures flags of all descriptions. 28 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929 'i 1. The Fire Extinguisher Fishermen View Fight By PAUL W. HILLER Sea Spectacle Talw.'> Place When Stvorrl Let us consider for a mom~nt the de fish /(ills Whale velopment of the means available to the boat owner today for extinguishing fires. While prospecting for tuna off Cape In sailboat days it \Vas comparatively San Lucas last month the crew of the simple-a rack of buckets on the deck, Morgan saw one of the most interest near the pumps, was all that \Vas con ing sights of the sea-a fight between sidered necessary, and was all that was a· sperm whale and swordfish. The fol available. \Vith the coming of steam, lowing description was given by Charles power pumps, hose lines and steam Anderson, one of the crew: { smothenng became the rule, and was "\V e were cruising along at about five I' most effective. Then came the power knots when suddenly on our port side boat, and the hand extinguisher came about 100 yards away the water became into use, the small hand pump, later agitated and the next instant a big power driven pumps, and then the special sperm whale leaped from the water and extinguishers. hanging on to his side was a large Considering water first, as it has al swordfish. Again and again the whale ways been the enemy of fire, and will broke water, falling back with a smack ahvays be in demand, there is a limit which sounded like the explosition of a for its use aLoard ship-it is poor policy gun. VI.' e were watching for him to come to flood the ship, waterlogging it, as a out again, but there l1as to be an end means of putting out fire. \'Vater is best to everything. All we saw was suddenly used where its force may not only drown a big spume of blood came to the top the flames but will tear out the burning and a few triangular fins darted through embers, deck gear, etc., and wash it Well! Wei! I as we live and breathe, if it isn't the water. These were the camp of ror.: overboard. Manuel Rosa <:nd his boat LUSITANIA with his lowers of the sea's most voracious fight The next development was the upset 'aithful crew nr:ain bringing in the first load of ers-sharks. tuna of the Turtle Bay section, an:i what we mean type of extinguisher, so called because ;he's loa:!el-the photos will prove that, Below is "Evidently there was another whale it was turned bottom side up to bring it the LUSITANIA and her crew as she pulled in and swordfish fight going- on for about ~ into action. The tank, usually of small :o the Van Camp Seafood docks at San Diego, one quarter of a mile from this spot I' Calif., with 112 tons of tuna. Left is Captain capacity, so that it could be readily Manuel Rosa standing on the bridge just after but only the inevitable end was seen by handled, contained an alkaline solution, :locking. Right are three of the crew taking in us-a mass of bloody >vater and the fins ' and a bottle of acid. Upsetting it frees Jhe slaclt on the bow line. The LUSITANIA must of the sea hounds, in at the death. An(l { the acid, the two chemicals react on each )e carrying a rabbit's foot some where on board or as we cruised on I just wondered how l.t might be possible that Captain Rosa has a other, generating pressure which forces ;chcol of tuna corTaled out in the brinv deep, as many of these never-ending battles of out the stream of liquid-largely water this is not the first time it has happeited. Last the sea we were passing over." -but c~trrying with it a large amount ~cason the LUSITANIA started out the same way by bringing in the first big load of the season, and I of carbon dioxide gas. This gas is the the funny part of it all it that nobody seems to product of fire.. and so is fire's deadliest know where he's getting them. enemy, and this extinguisher utilized this San Diego News l gas to help kill the flames. The stream is small, comes out with great force, and guisher, as in the soda and acid type. Swordfish Running Goml; Catch 90,000 \.· may be directed at the seat of the fire. These chemicals when mixed, give off a Pounds ", The extinguisher did not gain favor in large amount of carbon dioxide gas, and 1 power boats, as the oil fires would float as the bubbles form they ·afii,.hCJd in a Bu JOE CAMII
building on the coast. It has specialized in Builders of 45 Years lampara boats for 1-fonteray canneries and Opens Radio Station also built quite a few boats for Eureka and Fort Bragg salmon trollers. Any type of Coast Fish Boat Developments Are boat up to 500 tons is built and the new American Fisheries Protective Associa JV alched Since Beginning ,··''11/ll:raz, 72-foot purse seiner for K. Hov tion ln.dall.~ Plant den at Monterey came from the yard. The development of flshing boat con This year it also built an 86-foot pas The American Fisheries Protective struction ot~ the Pacif1c _Coast ha_s formed senger boat for Rocl1cll Ruffo Company, Association of San Diego is installing an interestmg chapter 111 the htstory of La Paz, Lower California and 20 salmon its own receiving and sending station the fisheries o£ the \Vest Coast, according boats for Bristol Bay Packing Company for radio communication \vi\th fishing to those who have been in closest touch and Red Salmon Canning Company. boats, according to Fred Schellin, presi with this evolution. 'f'wo such men are The yard has two marine railroad ways dent. Walter A. Anderson and A. Cristofanl, and six skid ways and permanently em partners in Anderson Cristofani, ship According to Mr. Schcllin, fish is &, ploys 35 to 40 skilled boat builders. running in Mexico, with all boats leav builders at Hunters Pmnt, San Francis ing as soon as they can get ready. Two co. A yard that was established 45 years The Eastern halibut fleet is now di boats have arrived back with full loads ago by \Valter Anderson's father as the vided in t~ovo sections, one operating on and are on their way back for second Anderson Shipyards, its proprietors have Georges Banks and the other on east loads. Fish is running heavily, especially been in constant touch with the trend ern grounds, including VVestern Bank, barracks. Albacore has been slack for in fishing boat construction, for which Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Grand two weeks. the yard is particularly adapted. Bank. There arc about seventeen ves The last boat built at San Diego, the Years ago the yard built the Snark for sels operating.:,:__ ___ Sao Joao, was launched late in July, Jack London, which was onlY one of the The boat Mariner has been rebuilt and colorful incidents in the yard's history. The The first best trip of swordfish latest boats to be built are the two new brought into Boston, the famous sword is out on her first trip since her colli trav·llers for the S. Larco Fish Company of fish port, during the present season con sion. Santa Barbara, which arc 46 feet in length sisted of 141 fish, the catch of the The boat Betty B was seized in Mexi with beams molded to thirteen feet and schooner Evelina M. Goulart. The fish co for being inside the three-mile limit depths molded to five feet. sold to wholesale dealers at 20 cents per Activity of Anderson & Cristofani is a pound for white and large and 12 for without permit, ln~t was released after valuable index to the news of fishing boat pups. paying a fine.
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CENTRAL SHEET METAL WORKS "If It's Rubber We Have It" G. C. ShoUt;e, Mgr. C. E. Lewis, Prop, Empire Rubber Co. DISTRIBUTORS OF HOOD FOOTWEAR, TOWERS WATERPROOF CLOTHING AND MARINE WORK A SPECIALTY APRONS, RUBBER TUBING, RUBBER MATS AND MATTING, TIN, SHEET IRON, COPPER AND BRASS WORK RUBBER HOSE, AND FIRE EQUIPMENT Phone Main 5405 BOAT TANKS 718 Front St., Cor. G Telephone VAndylte 2907 Salesroom, 717 East 9th Street SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 30 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929
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j i French Snrtline A Bouquet From Branded Yellorvfin Ccmnery Enlurgetl Nootha, B. C. Tnnll Caught By GEO. ROGER CHUTE "The writer received a copy of your Of interest to canners and scientists, t ever in quest of more information about 'I'he French Sardine Company is at \\Test Coast Fisheries and enjoyed same and was very much interested in several the tuna tribes was a branded yellowfin present rebuilding and greatly enlarging tuna, the first ever caught, which was its entire plant at Fish Harbor, San Pe articles therein," says J, J. Petrick, man ager of the ~ootka Packing Company, brought to fish Harbor, San Pedro, by dro. A new and entirely separate mack~ Ltd., of Nootka, B. C., in a letter. "As the live-bait boat Advc1zturcr last month. .:!rel department is to be the feature; the the writer has been connected with the The curiosity was immediately turned construction of fixtures in the newly-built over to B. Houssels, vice president of mackerel rooms commenced recently. fisheries of Alaska, Puget Sound and I British Columbia for the past 30 years the Van Camp Sea Food Company, Inc., The factory's capacity for handling this such interesting and valuable infornia who sought to learn who had marked the species of fish \Vill be much enlarged tion as your magazine turns out is al fish and when and where it was released, { through the installation of one of the \vays of interest. Enclosed please find information which might lead to more ! new Christcnsen-Quama butchering ma our check for one year's subscription." facts regarding the habits of the yellow chines. It is the ambition of the organi The Nootlca Packing Company, Ltd., fin. zation to have the largest and best-ac is a canner of salmon and pilchards and 1.'he Advculurcr took the fish in the vi coutred mackerel packing department at cinity of the Claria,n Island, southwest Fish Harbor. a manufacturer of fish meal and oil. · off Cape San Lucas, Lower California1 Tuna equipment also is being improved * * * on June 20. It was a 50-pound yellowfin and expanded. An entire new packing Fresh Abalone and on its side were three oval lines, table running the length of the old fac Importing Stoppecl encircling the words "BOB-BOAT \ tory is being built. Six new tuna cook The importation of fresh abalone from BOB." It was presumed that a boat I ers already have been seated on the re ?l{cxico for packing in the United States named Bob caught the fish, marked it and cently-laid concrete foundations in the has heen stopped, according to Lt~is released it. The brand seemed to have new building, and all steam pipes and Salazar, San Diego ship broker. The been pressed into the side of the fish in water connections are in. last shipment \vas "received at San Pedro stead of printed on it. According to Mr. In the Sardine department bigger on July 20. Hereafter all canned abalone Houssels, it is the first fish so branded things still are going on. Five new cut will have to be packed in Mexican can that ever has been recaught despite the ting machines have heen purchased and neries. Dry abalone can still he export fact that the United States bureau of will be installed just as soon as other ap ed from Mexico to the United States fisheries has marked many and released paratus can he cleared away and room and other foreign countries. them in the hope of catching them again made for the ne·w order of things. It is The building of a new cannery at and ascertaining something of the habits claimed that when this pilchard mill is Turtle Bay is to he started and also one of the fish. all completed, the French Sardine Com at ]vfagdalcna Bav. All material and * • • pany 1vill have the largest Sardine plant machinCry has be-en purchased in the Franco-ltlllian in the entire world. United States and is being shipped to in lltacherel Pllch The finn is operating one double tuna its destination. The Franco-Italian Packing Company packing table and one double mackerel * * * of fish Harbor, San Pedro, has joined table. Ten retorts cook the output. \Vhen Turci~-Niclwlson the parade of packers putting up mack Cannery OpPnetl the new mackerel lines are put in service erel in a serious way, says Edwin M. an eleventh retort will be introduced to A new Southern California fish-pack Burch, sales manager. Two new boats make sure that cooking capacity will al ing cannerv was opened the last of July have been added to the mackerel fleet, ac ways keep pace with packing ability. by \V. I. Turck, an old-timer in the cording to Joe 1~Iardesich, manager of New tuna-cool(ers, an addi tiona! re California industry and Ben X. Nichol the company. A one-pound tall can of tort, Bib mackerel exhaust tunnels, and son, at Newport Beach, \vhere the part mackerel is packed, in contrast to the increased reduction volume have made ners, operating as the T'urck-Nicholson oval cans and fillet mackerel pack of sev necessary an enlargement of the steam Packing Company, will can mackerel, eral other canners. rreneraling plant. Two new 100 h.p. boil sardines and tuna. • * * ers were bricked in, thus doubling the Messrs. Turck and Nicholson have Halfhill Corpo-ration former power of the plant. taken over the old plant of the New Pllching !Jlllcherel port Packing Company, which went out The Halfhill Packing Corporation of * of business some time ago. In addition Long Beach is engaging heavily in the Bille Fin Price * * to canning, they will operate a reduc young mackerel packing industry, accord War Rages tion plant, for which a permit was se ing to Charles P. Halfhill, executive of San Pedro, \V"ihnington and Long cured recently. Mr. Turck is one of the the firm. Both a one-pound tall and an Beach canners found themselves in the pioneers in the business in the state eight-ounce pack are being put up. midst of a price war over Blue Fin tuna and was secretary of the California Fish Years ago Halfhill put up an oval pack during the latter part of July. It came Company, which later became the South of mackerel, but this has been abandoned at a time and because of the fact that the ern California Fish Corporation, and in favor of the one-pound tall can. fish was scarce. One packer, it is operated the first fish cannery in South~ • * * understood, becoming anxious to get ern California, located at San Pedro. Slln Die{!o Reports Blue Fin, bid the price up five dollars Heavy Packing over the then standard $110 per ton. • • • . Packing at San Diego is heavy, accord Then the price war broke. Other pack Cllli/ornia Gets 60 Ing to. a report by A. J, Cohn, president ers advanced their offerings and the cost Tons of Tllna of Cohn-Hopkins, Inc. who says that of the tuna delivered on the dock mount The D.S. California has just returned to the firm's total pack al~eady this year is ed rapidly until what is believed to be port after a five weeks' cruise with a almost up to its total pack for the entire the highest price ever paid fishermen for good catch of Tuna for the California season last year. At the present rate the tuna at San Pedro was reached-some Packing Corp. (approximately 60 tons). pack will be more than doubled this $155 per ton, although the majority of No trouble reported-very bad weather year over last year, as the major portion thP. packers 1vould pay no more than encountered with high seas running most of the seqson remains. The firm is one $145. of the trip. of the principal mackerel packers. August, 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 31 Linde Opens Plant
e11 wrprisi11g Pacht.->r Jllores to Fish Har- . bor /rol~t Wilmington
The Linde Packing Corporation rc .::urncd operations at its' new location at Fish harbor, Terminal Island, during the past month, beginning to pack about July 6 After being forced to relinquish its J~ase on Mormon Island, Wilmington, to make way for a case oil dock, the Linde Packing Corporation secured the old plant of the Los Angeles Sea Food Company and extensively remodeled it. According to Julius E. Linde, president, the improvements included a new exhaust box for mackerel, new packing tables, new tuna unloading equipment and con vevors and cleaning and painting of the eniire plant. 'fhc company began to pack mackerel, tuna and abalones and will put up sar dines when the season begins. The Linde cannery is operated by a closed corpora tion and in addition to President Julius E. Linde, other executives arc: 0. }. The new Linde plant at Fish Harbor, showing one of the Lindeo brothers in the foreground Linde, vice president; Orin E. Linde, sec retary and treasurer; 1L 0. Palmer, su perintendent and J. C. Craughan, assi.st Did llw Flood Blue Laws for ant superintendent. Drown lt'ishes? Fishermen Equipment of the old plant on Mor Did the flood for which Noah built Blue laws for fishermen may be laugl-i mon Island was sold to the Ventura his ark drown even the fishes? Henry cd at by those on the Pacific Coast who Packing Company, a new cannery which Field, assistant curator of physical an are accustomed to going out, rain or is going into business at Huenema, Calif., thropology of the Field Museum of Nat shine. Sunday or Monday. The follow packing sardines and mackerel. ural Historv, thinks that there is basis ing is quoted from the Fishing News of \:Vith the opening of the new plant at for such an· assumption. Aberdeen: Fish Harbor the Linde Packing Corpora The Mesopotamia expedition of the The essential differences between tion became one of the leading packers field Museum resulted in the finding of Scottish and English fishermen has in the district, going- into the canning of hundreds of fossils of small fish, which been succinctly expressed thus: all varieties on a large scale. Julius E. apparently harJ been imbecled for cen "The Scot is prepared to go out in Linde. the president, is a man who has turies in clay found at the site of the almost any weathers while the Eng .been in the business for many years and ancient city of Kish. The flood referred lislunan is not. On the other hand is thoroughly versed with all its angles. to in Ge11esis is believed to have been the Englishman fishes on Sundays Previous to the organization of the Linde the one which covered Mesopotamia and the Scotsman resolutely refuses corporation Mr. Linde was an officer of about 3,400 B. C. to do so." Our own fishermen the \V edum Packing Company of Wil ---- come well out of the comparison, and mington, which he and his associates Palmlini Learns at a time when there has been a de bought out, taking over the old \Vedum Surf Riding plorable glut in the herring market. plant, ·which was but recentlv abandoned 1Jr. Alexander Paladini returned re they have a legitimate grievance in favor of the new factLwy -at Fi.sh Har cently from the West-Honolulu where agai11st those -..vho needlessly infringe bor. 1fr. Linde is well knmvn to all con they say he learned the "hula-hula," but the Sabbath by bringing more fish nected with the packing industry in and the report may not be true. But anyway, where there is~ already a surplus. No about San Pedro and his success in oper he was on the il'falolo excursion and also plea of necessity can be advanced in ating the new plant is declared to be as took in the side trip to I-Iilo and Kilauea such a case, and the Peterhead fisher sured. volcano. He reports a wonderful time men have public opinion wholly with Linde is the only one of the large can and acquired a sunburn descried as a them in the unanimous resolution ners at Fish Harbor to pack almlone. "peach," acquired working overtime at they reached, at their meeting yester Huge consignments of the molluck arc · trying to learn surf-riding, So far as day, in favor of petitioning fishcurers received from 1'fexico during the season, color was concerned he might have passed to desist from buying herrings caught which is now under way, and packed for an overgrown lobster. Half the tal on Saturday and Sunday nights at "in transit," for shipment to foreign coun cum and skin lotions in Honolulu was Yarmouth and Lowestoft. There is a tries. used in bringing him back to original moral principal involved, but even if • This is no handicap, however, accord color, ·with Geo, Ronitz, the Honolulu that alone should not prove sufficient tng to officials of the Linde factory. There importer and exporter in the role of der ly persuasive the economic principle is a great demand for canned abalones in matologist. will give it an additional weight that the Orient and practically all of the Linde should be irresistible. The cure, as output is seized eagerly hy J apancse buy Too Dmn Dumb! one speaker put it, rests in the hands ers. In fact, it is understood that Linde "VVhat w:is Noah's surname?" of the Scottish curers; and they can has orders for 25,000 more cases than "Sark, of course. Haven't you ever be depended upon to give the prob he has been ahle to fill thus far. heard of Noah Sark ?" lem discreet and effe-ctive treatment.
Phone 2740 CHAS. DE VRIES, Prop. MARINE SHEET METAL WORKS Heavy Steel Fuel Oil and Water Tanks Robert M. Hartwell Co. Acetylene and Electric Welding INCORPORATED Tcrminnl Island, Calif., Ncar Bethlehem Ship Yard Engineering Specialties CANNERY, MILL AND FACTORY SUPPLIES ONDRASIK & SON 3538 5 East Second Street Phone: FAber 3287 ANGELUS WIRE & IRON WORKS LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Manufacturers of WIRE PRODUCTS, FISH BASKETS, Etc. 947 East Twelfth Street Los Angeles, Calif. 32 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929 Continental Moves
Los Angeles Subsidiary Opens New Plant Serving Southland
The Los Angeles Can Corporation, a subsidiary of the Continental Can Com pany, has moved to its new $1,500,000 factory at 3820 Union Pacific Avenue, Los Angeles, beginning the manufacture of cans there late last month, according to an announcement by Sam B. Irvin, sales manager for packers' cans. Built as the latest and most modern of the chain of 35 factories of the Con tinental throughout the country, the Los Angeles plant has a capacity 0£ 100,000,- 000 cans a year. It will employ 600 per sons when put in full operation this month. Of particular interest to fish can ners is the announcement emanating from Mr. Irvin that all fish cans, including one-pound ovals, which 1vere not manu factured at the old plant on San Fernan do Road, will be produced at the Union Pacific Avenue factory. J. P. Williams, for 25 years with the The Continental Can Company's new plant in Los Angeles. Above, a view Los Angeles Can Corporation, is vice of the huge covered loading shed president of the company, in charge of the district. William Berryman is busi ness manager of the factory and W. E. foreign fish Trade A Sardine By-Product Hall is factory manager. Sam B. Irvin. sales manager for packers' ca1.1s, has been Pearl Essence from Scales Is a Sot,rcc with the company for 15 years. J. M. Report of Bureau of Foreign and Do~ of Re11emle Quenell is sales manager for general mestic Commerce lines. All equipment is new and of the most Statistics used in the following were Pearl essence, used in the manufacture modern, inspection of the plant discloses. compiled and assembled from reports re of imitation pearls, lacquers and other ar J.'i'ullv equipped laboratories were provid leased by the Bureau of Foreign and Do ticles with a pearl-like hue, is taken ed a-nd no expense 1\'as spared in making mestic Commerce. from the scales of sardines and other it one of the finest can plants in the Exports: During April, 1929, 16,332,- fish, and is a growing industry with con United States. One of the features of the 604 pounds of domestic fishery products, siderable possibility. new factory is a covered train shed ac valued at $1,620,573, were exported from Man must make use of some substance commodating 35 cars, allowing the great the United States, compared with 8,554,- that, when put into the shape of a pearl, est ease and facility in loading for ship 21.1 pounds, valued at $869,593, for the exhibits a pearly luster, to imitate pearls. ment. same month a year previous. This is an The only substance that has ever ans The Los Angeles Can Corporation, increase of 91 per cent in amount and 86 wered tf1is requirement satisfactorily is 1vhich has been operating in Los Angeles per cent in value. These exports con the silvery substance deposited in the skin for 30 years, was purchased by the Con sisted of 3,337,551 pounds of canned sal of many species of fish, according to a tinental Can Company about two years mon, valued at $442,668; 9,512,041 pounds document prepared for the department ago. of canned sardines, valued at $735,865; of commerce, bureau o-f fisheries by Har 981,385 pounds of other canned fish and den F. Taylor, former chief technologist shellfish, valued at $138,634; and 2,501,727 of the bureau. OVERCOMING RUST pounds of fresh and cured fish and other This sub~tance, 1vhen rubbed off the fish products, including shellfish, valued scales, freed from foreign matter and Rust need not be a handicap to the at $303,406. suspended in water or other suitable liq cannery, for it can be overcome as soon The United Kingdom alone receiYed 87 uid, is pearl essence. Efforts were made as it is noticed, according to Robert M. per cent of the calined salmon, while the early in history to utilize it. Jaquin, a Hartwell of 353 East Second Street, Los Philippine Islands( Netherland East In French rosary maker, on the banks of a Angeles. There are coatings which can Dies, British Malaya, and all European stream ncar ·his home at Passy, noticed be applied to metals exposed to weather, countries received 67 per cent of the that the \Vater in which a small fish had high temperatures, moisture, brine, am canned sardines. been washed contained a highly lustrous monia, sulphur or acid fURies and can be substance. Application of it by him to applied over rust. Nitrose is such a coat Imports: Imports during April, 1929, amounted to 18,786,636 pounds, valued at .small globes of alabaster produced for ing. It penetrates grease, rust or moisture the first time remarkably good imitations to attach itself to the sound metal. It '$2.104,619; as ~ompared with 18,867,679 pounds, valued at $2,199,107, for the same of pearls. Jaquin's discovery was made also resists corrosion from the action of about 1656. Bv the time of the American heat moisure or acid fumes indefinitely month a year ago. This represents a de .creasc of less than 1 per cent in amount revolution a l)lant at St. Jean de Maizcl and ~dds years of life to equipment. Elas was producing 10,000 pearls a day. tic as to temperature, it contracts and ex and 4 per cent in value. These imports pends with the metal surfaces without consisted of 9,224,973 pounds of fresh and A small plant using pearl essence taken cracking or peeling. The Robert M. Hart frozen fish, value{! at $707,232; 6,759,693 from sardine scales collected at Fish Har well Company deals in engineering and nounds of cured and canned fish, valued bor was established at East San Pedro, power plant equipment and mill and fac at $740,080; and 2,801,970 pounds of fresh Calif., during the past year, and has been tory supplies. and canned shellfish, valued at $657,296. in operation during the sardine season ever since. No attempt is made, however, ---- The imports during April, 1929, com pared with those for the same month a to make imitation pearls, as it is de DAMAGE HALF A MILLION clared difficult to compete with the Orien~ year ago show that fre~h and frozen tal product. The essence is used to manu The \i\Testern Lake Erie section, in fish increased 10 per cent Ill amount and facture ·a lacquer. twine, docks, craft and commercial fish 1 per cent in value; cureD and canned ing equipmeqt, was damaged to the ex fish decreased 17 per cent in amount and tent of $500,000 by the unusually se 13 per cent in value; and fresh and canned herring and tuna. Imports of cured and shellfish increased 21 per cent in amount vere storms of this year's spring season, canned fi,sh consisted principally of cod£ it is estimated. The loss of catch carried and 1 per cent in value. sardines, and he'rring; while imports o out into the lake 1vith the nets is not Imports of fresh and frozen fish con shellfish were principally crab meat, included in the estimates. sisted mainly of fresh--water fish and eels, shrimp, and lobsters. 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 33
Fresh n. o. s ...... 212,812 3,883 l. A. Sardine Exports Coastwise outbound: Canned, pres. n. o. s .. 11,800 59 Harlwr Report Slwws Movement of Mackerel ...... 5,000 25 Canned, Prt~served Fish 1'una ...... 68,640 132 Fresh n. o. s ...... 300 3 Export of canned sardines from the From France ...... 1,101 2,030 port of Los Angeles during the month From Hongkong-, pres. 511 620 of 1hv, 1929, is detailed in a report of From ] a pan, pres. . .. 51,083 263,780 conunCrcc for the month, just issued by the board of harbor commissioners. Inter costal shipment of sardines and coastwise FRANK VAN CAMP, Prco. movement also are shown. Some 231 tons of sardines, valued at $46,000, were The VanCamp SeaFood shipped intercostal and 48 tons, valued Wilmington Sheet Metal Works at $9600, moved coastwise. Foreign shipments of sardines follow: Company., Inc. Destination Value Pounds SHEET METAL WORKS MOVES Africa ..... · ...... $ 31,015 329,551 T. H. Orrick announces that the Wil Packers of Belgium ...... 1,115 14,400 mington Sheet Metal Works is now lo Borneo ... , ...... 775 12,000 cated at 529 Avalon Boulevard, Wilming British Indi~t ...... 30,197 511,200 ton, in a new building having 11,875 That Famous Canada ...... 322 1,148 .
SARDINE CANNERS ASSOCIA'!'ION OF CALIFORNIA OFFICERS Frank Van Camp, President, Terminal Island. B~ D. 1\Iarx Greene, Vice-President and General 1\Ian- E. S. Wangenheirn, First Vice-President, San Francisco. ager, San Francisco. Ed A. Hoyt, Second Vice-President, Terminal Island. Pa A. Ford, Secretary-Treasurer, San Francisco. DIRECTORS Angelo· Lucido, San Carlos Canning Co., Monterey. E. B. Gross, E. B. Gross Canning Co., Monterey. H. G. 1\olaxson, F. E. Booth Co., Inc., San Francisco. Ka Hovden, K. Hovden Co., Monterey. Frank Van Camp, Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., Terw Ed. A. Hoyt, French Sardine Company, Inc., Terminal minal Island. Island. E. S. Wangenheirn, Carmel Canning Co., Monterey. Julius E. Linde, Linde Packing Corporation, Wihning- W. F. Wood, Southern California Fish Corporation, ton. Terminal Island. Address All Correspondence to the Office of the Vice-President and General Manager 1603 Alexander Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 34 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929
Feetling Value of the milk increased 10 or 15 times through Oil, Meal Men Fi.o;h Meal Studied the feeding of fish meal. W'atch Tariff Foods of a marine animal origin are It has been proven by a number of The proposed new federal tariff, now . particularly desirable for their mineral authorities in the biochemical field that before the Senate, after passage by the constituents, their protein content, and it is possible to increase the vitamin D House of Representatives, is watched with their vitamin potency. T'hcir mineral con content of cow's milk or goat's milk by keen interest by the producers and deal stituents are unexcelled in quantity, va including in the diet or ration of the ani ers in fish oil and meal, be'cause of the riety, and proportionate distribution. mal certain specifics, foods, or food con clauses in the bill affecting the two proM Scientists have shown that sea water centrates that are rich in tlle antirachitic ducts. contains at least 34 clements useful to factor. Like\Vise, the deficient mineral Fish oil is given an increase in duty as life. It naturally follows that marine ani constituents of the milk of the animal, a protection to the American production mal foods originating from such a me such as calcium, iodine, and iron, can be against the importation of pilchard oil dium would be highly diversified and rich supplied to a point where the milk is no from Canada. Fish oil men state, how in mineral constituents. Not only that, longer lacking in those dietary essen ever, that the quantity of pilchard oil but these minerals appear in a readily tials; and it certainly would be preferable, brought into the country is not great assimilable form specially provided for by from the standpoint of more efficient as enough for the proposed new tarifi to nature. similation, if these mineral requirements have much other than moral influence on As a protein concentrate, fish meal could be administered, already combined, the market. ranks high (55 to 65 per cent) and is in organic form in the foods rather than than through inorganic sources. On the other hand, the bill puts fish easily and almost completely digestible. meal on the free list, on the theory that It is virtually free from crude fiber, which The Bureau of Fisheries has undertak it is an aid to agriculture because of the is an important consideration in swine en an extensive program of cooperative fertilizer used by that industry, it being ~ feeding. According to the understanding feeding tests in collaboration with vari the policy of the administration to give ( of this bureau, the distinctive feeding ous bureaus and agencies of the U. S. as much assistance to the farm as possi· value of fish meal, for which there is no Department of Agriculture, some of the ble by reducing duties on commodities , substitutes, lies in its content (20 per state experiment stations and universi used in agriculture. cent) of minerals in orgariic combination ties, and a few independent investigators already selected by nature in variety and and firms. The object of these experi Some in the meal industrY claim, nev proportions for promoting health and rap ments is to determine the nutritive value ertheless, that, as is asserted to be the 1 id grmvth in animals. of foods of a marine-animal origin for case of fish oil, the quantity imported is r' the benefit of both the fishery industries so comparatively small as to make a A considerable proportion of Ameri change in the tariff of small influence, f can fish meal 1vas, up to this year, sent and the farmer. Results of these research to Gcrmanv, which consumes 70,000 tons es will be published as soon as they are Shtill othe ~s bel~ c ve that _putting me.alflon t completed. t e 1 ree 1 tst w1 1 1 resu1 t tn a great m ux ~, annually for swine feeding alone; but the of the product. A movement is therefore 11 increasing demands of American consum * * * on foot to influence the Senate to strike ers arc now absorbing virtually the entire Reduction Ma;r the free clause on fish meal from the output, and some Norwegian consumers Not Increase tariff bill. are now absorbing virtually the entire Reduction of sardines to fish oil and optput, and some Norwegian meal is Belief is al~o expressed by some that meal may not be increased over last year the export demand for oil and meal will being imported. in California this season, according to the The follmving is quoted from an article stabilize the market, regardless of changes belief of some producers.. The popular in the tariffs affecting imports. There is by Professor George \V. Cavanaugh of understanding has been that the new sar Cornell University: a growing demand from European coun dine law of the State increases the allow tries, particularly Germany, for the by In feeding experiments ten one ance for reduction, but this is not fact, product. Germany buys annually several year old heifer calves were placed in it is declared. The law allows reduction times the amount produced in the United a yard which contained a shed open of 330 per cent of the actual recepits, States. Much of it is purchased in Can :at one side. For a period of one year, whereas the courts interpreted thf! old ada and some in this country. Various in addition to the regular ration of law to countenance reduction of 25 per producers have said that they have re :hay and silage, they received a grain cent of the capacity of the plant, which ceived attractive offers from Germany, -ration containing fish meal. At the permitted, in many cases, of reduction \vhich undoubtedly they will accept at the end of the year they had an average of even as much as half of the actual first sign that importation is \veakening height of 2% inches in excess of the receipts. the local market. standard hei!!ht and an average * * * weight of 300 pounds in excess of the Fish Flour in * • * ·standard weight. One of the reasons '"Hot Dogs" Fish Meal Price D01on why I think this it)crease in weight T'he Bayside Fish Flour Company at ··and height was ·obtained is that the Monterey, of which Roy Daily is man The price of fish meal dropped sante 'fish meal, which contains the finely ager, will resume operations with the what during the past month, with produc~ ground bones of the fish, furnishes opening of the sardine season at that port ers asking $57.50 per ton and buyers of ;the bone-making lime and phospheric August 1. That fish flour is used in "hot fering $55, consequently little trading was acid in exa-ctly rig-ht proportions. The dogs" is revealed by Mr. Daily. The reported. The tariff bill which_ passed herd had previously been troubled company ships considerable quantities of the House of Representatives and was with big neck, qr goiter, in young· its products to Germany to be used as before the Senate, putting fish meal on the calves. filler for sausages. free list, was believed by some to have Professor Cavanaugh further states an influence on the situation, although that no case of goiter was observed since • * • others discounted the idea. !ceding the ration containing fish meal, Fish Oil Price Scoffers pointed out that little fish meal nor were there any cases of abortion, Is Stable is imported and that the possibility of free while previous cases of abortion had oc \Vith fish oil manufacturers asking 470 import could have little bearing on th.e curred. An analvsis showed that fish to 50 cents per gallon and buyers offering- price. It was admitted, however, that tt meal contained 2,000 parts of iodine per 45 cents, trading was about normal dur might have a moral influence on the llillion, and that the iodine content of ing the past month, according to reports. market. p.ugust, 192 9 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 35
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Electric Screens JJln:r Lmulings at American Cart Co. {(;7Jivert Fish North Pacific Parts Executives Change The Burkey electric fish stop installed Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulletin VV. S. Dirker, northwestern district by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries in the No. 837 shows that during May, 1929, sales manager for the American Can I Sunnyside Irrigation Canal has so far 1,817,100 pounds· of fishery products, Company recently announced a number proved a complete success as no fish have valued at $221,318, were lan.Ued by Amer of changes in northwestern district ex been discovered in the territory served ican fishing vessels at Seattle, Washing ecutive positions as the result of the by that canal up to the present date. ton, compared with 2,518,270 pounds, deaths of the late F. P. Kendall, general Schools of young Chinook salmon have valued at $235,842, for the same month a manager and the late W. E. Gould, Se been seen migrating down the Yakima year ago, with 2,518,270 pounds, valued attle sales manager of packers cans. -river below the Sunnyside diversion at $235,842, for the same month a ye.ar The executive officer for the Pacific dam. ago. This is a decrease of ?8 per cent coast is M. J, Sullivan, vice president of Considerable trouble was experienced in in amount and 6 ocr cent in value. Col the company, San Francisco. The po getting the \Vapate Canal electric fish lecting vessels landed 1,107,643 pounds sition of general n]anager of the- north stop to function properly, and there was of fishery products, valued at $142,431, as west district will be abolished and op a heavy loss of young stcclhcads and compared with 1,278,640 pounds, valued erations of the coast business in the Chinook salmon for a period of two at $125,546, for the same month a year northwest district handled bv VV. S. weeks. T'he trouble was corrected and ago. This is a decrease of 13 per cetit in Dirkcr, district sales manager -in charge the young fish are now found only in the amount and an increase of 13 per cent in of sales; R. L. Eddy, assistant district lo\ver reaches of the canal, 1vhi_ch indi~ value. sales manager; F. M. Yost, division su cates they have passed down and have Halibut landin!Ys at North Pacific ports perintendent, in charge of manufactur ceased entering the head of the canal. during May, 1929, amounted to 6,688,811 ing-; R. R. Brennan, cashier, in charge of The Pacific Power & Light Company pounds, as compared with 7,042,901 credits. have completed the installation of the pounds for the same month a year ago, At Seattle, D. J. Cawley will be sales electric fish stop in their power canal on registering a decrease of 5 per cent. Of manager of packers cans, salmon and the Naches River. No inspection as to the total, 5.254,220 pounds, or 79 per cent, fruit. succeeding the late Mr. Gould, H. its efficiency has as yet been made. were landed by American vessels, and 1_,~ E. Bausman will be his assistant. 432,591 pounds, or 21 per cent, by Canad~ * • • The Cobb revolving screen installed by ian vessels. .the State last year for experimental pur Henry Dotvden on Landings of halibut at Prince Rupert, Ttvo-Month Trip poses was regarded as a success by all British Columbia, accounted for 3,297,000 observers, and is in operation this sea ·.pounds, or 49 per cent of the total land Henry Dowden of the Henry Dowden son and no adverse reports or comments ings; Seattle, 1,597,500 pounds, or 24 per Company, prominent San Francisco have been received as to its complete cent; and ports in Alaska, 1,510,720 broker, accompanied by Mrs. Dowden efficiency. pounds, or 23 per cent. The landings at and two daughters, recently returned The Crown Williamette Paper Co. of Vancouver and Victoria, British Colum from a two-month vacation trip which Camas will install the electric fish stop bia, amounted to 281,591 pounds or 4 per took him all over the northwest. He in their po,ver diversion from LaCamas cent of the total landings. visited every fishig port in Oregon and Lake during low water period this fall. Washington, calling on his principals and The U. S. Bureau completed the in * * * many friends in the trade and studying stallation of the electric stop in the Tic Japanese Crab Meat the condition of the business in that part ton Canal, July 15th. They will install Prices Are Fixed of the country. the revolving (Cobb) mechanical screen The Crab Meat Exporters' Association • * * in the Aatnum Canal in August, which has fixed export prices F.O.B. shipping Alex Paladini will make all the U. S. Reclamation and .port for this season, according to infor Jlisits Honolulu Indian Service Canals screened in the mation furnished by the United States Yakima water-shed. j{lepartment of commerce by H. B. Titus, Hawaii and gay Honolulu lured Alex Paladini of A. Paladini, Inc., San Fran The Kittitas Government Canal when assistant trade commissioner at Tokyo, Japan. The prices follow: cisco, away from the lmy city during put in operation will be equipped with the July, and Mr. Paladini embarked for the electric fish stop. 7;1. pound ...... $13.64 per case 0 pound ...... 22.83 per case island made famous by dancing girls and * * * 1 pound ...... 20.69 per case grass skirts, returning to the mainland Washington Fish recently full of pep from the outing, llatchery Nates * * * ·which was greatly enjoyed. Jn addition Clam PacT, for to observing- the fishing activity in Ha During the fiscal year, 1928, ending 1929 Season waii, from force of habit, the popular March 31, 1929, 133,739,650 eggs ·were taken from 39,386 female salmon in each The Pacific Ocean clam pack for 1929 San Francisco wholesaler made of the season, lvfarch, April and May, as re trip a real pleasure cruise. district as follows: Puget Sound, 70,- ported from Grays Harbor and VVillapa 01,000; Columbia River, 20,909,150; Harbor, \Vash., is as follows: Grays Harbor, 27,378,800; \Villapa Bar bae, 14,750,700. Y, Lb. No. I No.1 No.I Ttl. No. On March 31, 1929, there •vere on Flat Picnic Picnic Tall No.2 No.2 No.2 of cases hand in rearing ponds ao total of 24,054,- Minced Whole Minced Whole \Vhole Minced Nectar All sizes 760 fry, and in the hatcheries 51,230,405. G. H ...... 19,158 1,940)/, 10,752 2,351;/, 137 1,285 35,624 116,516,225 frv were hatched during the W. H ...... 10.312 627 4,052 148 1,900 50 195 17,284 year. There 1vere 41,364,261 fry on hand Total. .. . 29,470 2,567)/, 14,804 2,499)/, 2,037 1,335 195 17,284 tn the hatcheries and 17,581.535 fry in the The total number of cases all sizes correct and final. On the basis of 48./1-lb. h rearing ponds on April 1, 1928. packed in Grays Harbor last year was cans per case the 102.282 cases all sizes in Deducting losses and shipments of fry 66,062 and in Willapa Harbor 36,220, a 1928 amounted to 63,580 full 48/1-lb. cases the net total planted luring the year were total of 102.282 as ,;hown by the bulletin and 168 cases of nectar. This year's fig 98,567,098, and as noted above with 75,- of June 15, 1928. All of the above figures ures would show the following on the I 185,165 fry on hand in hatcheries and for 1929 are subject to slight corrections same basis: Clams, 30,320 full 48/1-Jb. I· Ponds. and adjustments, but are approximately cases. Clam nectar, 195 cases. 36 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 192 9
Airplanes Ma;r Be from the Pacific to New York when number of commercial licenses issued Used in Fishing shipped via Duluth, it is reported. The during the year -was 1,144. Airplanes and sounding instruments transportation committee of the Cana * * * may play a part in the search for fish. dian Fisheries association will investigate Landings at Nerv The use- of these machines for spotting the matter. England Ports fish and tracing their movements at sea * * * Bureau of Fisheries Statistical Bulle was advocated at a meeting of the Corn Claim Sea Serpent tin No. 836 sho\vs that during May, 1929, wall Sea Fisheries committee recently, Seen by Fishermen vessels landed 23,638,949 pounds of fish when it was contended that the time had A press report of July 16 said that three ery products, valued at $625,579, at Bo!: arrived for the Ministry of Agriculture young fishermen claimed they had seen ton, Gloucester and Portland. This and Fislferics to show an interest in fish the famous Lake Champlain sea serpent, amount included 229,950 pounds of salt ing as well as dry farming. whose existence had been affirmed and fish, valued at $10,469. Of the total land H. Dunn, the chairman, said that the denied by a confusing combination of ings, 78 per cent were landed at Boston, fisheries should be treated on similar fact and fancy during the more than 300 18 per cent at Gloucester, and 4 per cent lines to agriculture and there should be years since the lake's discovery. at Portland. Haddock continued to be some system of technical education. If Thomas Bridge, Davis Riley and YVes· the lea-ding item and accounted for 67 per the fishermen had some education, or ey Quimby \vere fishing at the mouth ol cent of the total; cod ranked second, with somebody with vision who would put the Bouquet river \Yhen \Vhat appeared 18 per cent; and flounders third1 with 5 them in the way of things, it would con to them to be the huge serpent or fish per cent. The total landings dunng May sidcrahlv help the economic conditions, thrust its head high above the surface decreased 2 per cent in amount and 4 it was declared. of the lake and began shaking its tail, per cent in value as compared \Vith the Others agreed that the subject of the lashing the water into a sea of foam. The same month a year ago. fisheries had not been approached in the fishermen retired hastily to a nearby vil Total landings of fishery products at same way as that of agriculture. It was lage. these ports for the five months ending believer'l that the utilization of flying with 1viay amounte'£1 to 117,497,051 pounds, machines and sounding machines for the Tarpon Springs *Sponge * * valued at $4,676,615, compared with 104,- purpose of spotting fish at sea and trac Fleet Sails for Gulf 591,582 pounds, valued at $4,205,357, for ing their movements is to be an import The Tarpon Springs sponge fleet has the same period the previous year, an in ant factor in fisheries of the future. sailed out into the Gulf of Mexico and crease of 12 per cent in amount and 11 * * * began operations last month, to continue _per cent in value. Toronto Has a through August. A record season is an Among the landings of fresh first for Larly Fishmonger ticipated. The new tariff bill passed by the five months, haddock shows an in crease of 22 per cent, hake 42 per 'cent, Toronto has a lady fishmonger, accord the House of Representatives increases the duty on sponges from 15 per cent to pollock 65 per cent, and cusk 39 per cent, ing to the Canadian Fisherman. She is as compared with the corresponding per Mrs. Margaret Chambers and she opened 25 per cent ad valorem. The sponge pro ducers of Tarpon Springs asked for 40 iod a year ago, while cod decrease-d 14 per a store in 1917. It was the first retail cent, halihut 31 per cent, mackerel 55 per fish store to be opened in the east end of per cent duty, being allowed the 25 per Toronto. So little fresh haddock was con cent -embodied in the bill. cent, and flounders 10 per cent. sumed in Toronto at that time that when * * * * * * Mrs. Chambers began taking two cases, Liner to Be Whale Tag Weakfish With 400 pounds, a week the wholesalers were Oil Factory Blue Ribbons amazed. She now sells 400 pounds, in A 12,222-ton liner, the Hcktol"ia-, is being The Bureau of Fisheries has tagged addition to all the other varieties that converted into a floating whale oil fac 2,000 weakfish at North Wild-wood, N. J,, she handles, in one day. In fact, in the tory at the Hebburn graving docks, Eng with red ribbons each stamped with the winter months she sells over 2000 pounds land. The craft was formerly the White initials "USBF" and a number which of haddock, 1000 pounds of cod. 1000 Star liner 111 edic and was purchased by the identifies the fish. Ribbons \\•ere used be pounds of flounders and 500 pounds of N. Bugge Company of Norway. Sir \V. cause the more familiar metal tags will halibut in a week. Mrs. Chambers gives G. Armstrong Whitworth and Company, not stay on weakfish. It is the begin as the first reason for her success the Ltd., have secured a contract for a mo ning of an attempt to learn whether each fact that she has always been- scrupu tor-driven oil tank vessel of 8800 tons locality along the Atlantic Coast has its lously careful as to the freshness of the deadweight for Scandanavian owners. own stock or weakfish or whether fish fish she sells. The vessel will be fitted with Diesel en- range all along the coast. The bureau * * * gines. also seeks to learn the causes of ups and 2,846 Trips of * • • downs in the catch of weakfish. A re Fish at Boston Three Fishermen Drorvnetl \var-d is offered for the ribbons found on From January 1 to July 1, 1929, there Wlaen Boat Run Down the fish. were 2,846 trips of fish delivered at the A boat with four fishermen, operating • * * fish pier, Boston, Mass., according to re off the Dolegal coast, Ireland, recently, Fisherman Dragged Into ports. The fish amounted to 128,988,812 was run dO\vn, the boat cut in two and Ocean lJy His Nets pounds. For the same period last year, three men drowned. The sole survivor A reverse procedure in the use of nets 2,778 arrivals weighed out 115,727,268 of the crew, Patrick Call, stated that their was the experience of a Grimsby trawler pounds, making a net gain of 13,261,655 boat was cut in two by an unknown hand, Charles Lawson, while at sea rc~ pounds for the first six month of 1929. passing steamer shortly after midnight. cently. Gear was being hauled in the The swordfish season is now at its * * * course of fishing operations in the North height at Boston and selling prices are Alberta Fisheries Sea and had been almost got on deck said to be as low as they will be. Catcla Reported when the heavy weight of the net su_d~ * * • Fish to the value of $729,334 comprised denly dragged the gear overboard aga1n. Higlwr Rate on Fish the commercial catch for Alberta, Can., Lawson was caught by the footrope and Shipments Proposed lakes and rivers for the fiscal year end dral!qed overboard. Fortunately the The Canadian National Express Com in!! March 31, 1929, according to a report footrope broke and released him. He was pany proposes an application for a higher of the department of marine and fisher dragged back on deck and was found to rate on car load shipments on fresh fish ies, Ottawa, just issued. The total catch, have sustained injuries to his left leg, including $67,445 worth for domestic use, was valued at $870,468. The total ankle and left ribs. p.ugust, 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 37
She had never cared for Slim and was a staunch supporter of Paul; but even her OCEAN GOLO intuition could not tell her that Slim was lving, and that he had really been dis Story by H. Dunkinfielll Dialogue by Catherine Rogers charged because of late his attitude as a member of" the crew had been arrogant ~ 111 aa&&illll&&ll&iilll&&aaaaaaa&al&ii&aa&aaaaaaa&aliiillliliii&aa&aaaaaaaaaaa• and o!Iensive,- and had been dismissed by Joe only as a last resort. SYNOP'SlS o[ I,Jrcccding chapters: Joe Cava clined in his fireside chair, his slippercd (To be co11tinucd) esc and 1\lanucl Sorenito, friends since boyhood, {VVhat is Slim up to? Don't miss the 11 ch owning an exyensive and modern type fishing feet on a stool, the latest edition of the ~tt named the Kmgfisher and Sea Gull respcct evening paper and his beloved pipe, what next instalment.) \·dY decide to race their ships, much to the dis- more could any man desire? 1 a, ' 0 [ Joe's son Paul, who 15 in love with :Man· ~is1 daughter :Marie. Slim Dulatis, also in love By the table, so the light from the lamp CRAB MARKING EXPERIMENTS ~~·it!~ 1\brie, is Joe's first mate. After the race 'vould be brighter for her mending, sat The Fishery Board for Scotland has had bcert arranged, Joe called his crew together and told them of it and adJed if the Kingfisher 1'Ianuel's wife. A small, coiorlcss woman, just issued as one of their series of ~1• 011 each member of them would receive 11 crisJl ,vith iron grev hair pulled tightly and tied fishery investigation papers particulars $50.00 hill. 'l'he njght preceding, the starting of into a hard little knot, and glasses that the race a mysteriOUS figure might have been of experiments in the marketing and lib lLE Retail Metlwtls of Cash and Credit cannot be too much emphasis placed on Retailers Urged to Take Investigated by U. S. cleanliness of equipment. Advantage of Publicity "We've experimented with refrigera Something for nothing docs not come ,.....he division of domestic commerce of tion pipes in our cases and have final the United States department of com one's way every happy day and hour, but ly gone back to the old method of the wi-de-awake retail dealer will take merce, in cooperation with the National chopped ice as we find that the pipes Retail Grocers' Association, has conduct full advantage of the publicity that is draw all of the moisture from the sliced bein.- given reg~ding the V ES FlS Ferlcral Tariff Jacl~ Deluca Got!S Reduction Ashed to ilfurietta Springs Cutting in half of the tariff of one cent Jack Deluca, manager of the Los An pl:r pound on fish Qrought into the coun geles Fish & Oyster Company, has gone try is asked by the San Pedro chamber to Murietta Hot Springs for a rest, ac of commerce in a telegram sent recently companied by Frankie Mineghino, one to Senator Samuel Shortridge, member of Mr. Deluca's employees. They are there of the senate finance committee. Revis for two weeks, enjoying a rest, taking ion of paragraph 717 in the tariff bill in the baths and doing considerable hunt to provide for a reduction is sought. ing, according to 1v[r. Daluca's statement before leaving for the vacation trip. The reduction would effect San Pedro and other California fish-receiving ports * * * only for the fish brought in by aliens Busalacchi Visits from 1viexican waters and overland across in Los Angeles the international line. Tuna is already on A. A. Busalacchi of P. Busalacchi & the exemption list and Americans going Barge of the United Fish Company at Shelter Bros., of Stockton, Calif., was a visitor in Cove, Calif., which was total loss in freak storm Los Angeles during the latter part of July to Mexican 1vaters and getting the fish talting two lives recently. arc not required to pay the duty. calling on the trade. He said that things At San Diego, however, a larger per are quiet at Stockton and that the season centage of fishermen 1vould he effected, as Heavy Fort Bragg Catclt of on catfish, striped bass and salmon opens there is a larger proportion of alien fish Salmon One Qay Only in August. Shad opens again on the Sac ermen fishing in Mexican waters than at Although the catch of salmon is only ramento River August 1. Mr. Busalacchi San Pedro. about 50 per cent of normal at Fort is one of the old-time fish dealers on the 'l'he effect upon totuava or Mexican Bragg, Cal1f., according to F. ]. Hyman, Pacific Coast and is well known to the sea bass, would he important, it is point manager of the United Fish Company, business. He brought his family on the ed out by Gilbert C. Van Camp, head there was a very large catch made on trip and stayed in Long Beach. of lhe Van Camp Organization, who ] ulv 7, ·when 125,000 pounds were brought * * * .. called the question to the attention of in. ·But the next clay the- school was gone . Santa Barbara the San Pedro chamber of commerce. A freak storm occurred at Fort Bragg Catches Good Hundre-ds of thousands of pounds of sea on June 15 and a boat of the Anderson Santa Barbara market reports state that bass arc brought up from the Gulf of Cal brothers was swamped at Shelter Cove, good catches are being made, with plenty ifornia each season and half a cent off drowning Paul and Herman Anderson of steady arrivals and all the trawcls en the cost of production of each pound and beaching the United Fish Company fT::u,.ed there working. Dealers are optim would mean a material reduction in the barge, which was a total loss. istic for the halibut season which is just cost to the consumer. -Mr. Hyman believes that the poor beginning. catches of salmon have been due to the * * * * * * prevailing winds, which have been south Ulpiano Larco on Booth Executive erlY, changing inside currents and taking Visits Southlanrl Long T' ucation Trip thC feed and salmon offshore. Ulpiano Larco of the S. Larco Fish I. Aliota, general manager of the F. E. * * * Company, Santa Barbara, has been on a Booth Company, accompanied bv V./. S. two-month vacation over the northwest, \:Yintcrs, comptroller for the Company, Stmttle Halibut Flt!el Tit!d Up Southern California and Arizona. His visited Southern California from July 18 firm anticipates a good fall season. to 20. They called on Koulouris & VViest \Vith northern halibut already at some of 604 East Fourth Street, while in Los what of a premium and half of the Seat * * * A!Igeles and made a brief trip to San tle halibut fleet tied up, the prospect of Fillt!t Dealers Dtego to visit their branch office there, a scarcity of halibut this winter, \Yith Report Good Bnsine.~s . before leaving Saturday, July 20, for their corresponding high prices, is indica,ted by The Standard Fishers of San Francisco San Francisco headquarters. dealers and brokers. reports good sale of Seafresh fillet and The halibut boats are not f1shing be A. Paladini, Inc., also of the bay city, * * '" cause efforts thus far have proved Pretty announces that the Nordic fillets are mov Vancouver illan ·in ing well and that prospects arc extreme Southern California futile. The boats cannot find and catch much fish. The north Pacific halibut ly bright for this business. Jim Lowe of the N cw England Fish P"rouncls are largely fished out, according * * * s:;ompany of Vancouver, B. C., was a vis to the opinion of some as to the reason Newly Wetl Official Itor in Southern California during the lat for the absence of halibut. Some eastern Vi11its We.~l Coast ~er part of July. Mr. Lo·we, who was halibut is being moved west, but it by R. H. Friedler of the burenu of fisher tn California on his vacation visited :rvL no means is taking care of the denmnd. ies at Vlashit1gton, D. C., ·who was re N. Blumenthal of 405 Stanford Avenue, cently married, and his bride have been Los Angeles and President Sam Horn * * * spending a few days in San Francisco stein and Sales Manager Bivens of the fl. W. l(lein Visits and San Pedro before returning to \Vash- Coast Fishing Company, \Vilmington. Nt~Uiport Dealers ington. - * * * H. VV. Klein, manager of the Nehalem * * * Fuhon Marhet Heatl Bay Fish Company. \Vheeler, Ore., was a New Refrigeration Comes to California recent visitor at Newport, Ore., \\·here llltml lnsltillecl he met several fish dealers, including Crad Fred Reynolds of Dudley & Reynolds The Oregon Fish Company of Portland Merewith of the Newport Fish Company. has put in a refrigeration plant and ice of the famous Fulton Street fish market, According to Mr. Klein's report, ?vir. machine to handle the company's business New York City, was a visitor in Los Jl{ eredith was quite optimistic over the during the coming fall and winter, it is Angeles late in July, calling on M. N. outlook there and was enthusiastic re announced. If business keeps growing the Blumenthal of 405 Stanford Avenue. garding fillet. The VVhceler chinock sea concern expects to require more space tnonth. son was to open the first of the present shortly. ·· 40 THE WEST COA:1 I FISHERIES July, 1929 'I' Halibut ...... 6 frozen, Cured Stocks Herring, sea ...... 2H The Italian fisheries Lake ti-out ...... 8 l Pike (including pickerel, jacks and lncreasetl Holtlings of Mac/,ercl, Less Consumption Than in United State8 yellow jack) ...... 55 Other Countries ' Other V arietie.'t Shorvn Sable fish ...... 6 Shad and shad roe ...... 33 United States: According to statistics 6 Showing that the consumption of, fish collected by the Bureau of Agricultural Whiting ...... per capita is Jess in Italy than in anv hconomics and published by the Bureau Stocks of cured herring in cold storage other country, a report on the Italian fish-~ of Fisheries, the cold storage holdings of on June 15, 1929, amounted to 23,852,080 ing industry has been issued by the Amer frozen fish on June 15, 1929, totalled 40,- pounds, compar:ed with 13,504,281 pounds ican consulate at Naples. Th~ Italian in 450,612 pounds, compared with 40,945,- for the same date a year ago represent dustry is of very old origin, but faultv 811 pounds on the same date a year ago ing an increase of 77 per cent. Stocks of technical means of administration and diS~ and the five-year average of 32,617,000 mild cured salmon amounted to 2,826,187 posal of the fish and the absence of pounds for June. This is a decrease under nnunds, compared with 3,276,397 pounds marine equipment impedes the industry's a year ago of 1 per cent ancf an increase for the same date a year ago representing development to much greater proportion~ over the five-year average of 20 per cent. a decrease of 14 per cent. The amount of fish eaten per perso;; The quantity of fish frozen during the Canada: The report of the Canadian is steadily increasing in the United States month ended June 15 amounted to 14,- Department of Trade and Commerce largely due to the introduction of th~ 383,077 pounds. shows that on June I, fish stocks in Can fillet, which can be sold throughout the Comparison of the holdings on June ada totaled 13,062,324 pounds of fresh country in a fresh condition. 15 with normal holdings (five-year aver frozen and 4,434,418 pounds of other fish In Europe the annual consumption per age) of the more important species shows in cold storaQ'e. Compared with the hold head of population is as follows: London the following increases and deceases in 187 pounds; Paris, 174 pounds; Berlin: percentage: inrrs on June 1, last year, the holdings of fresh frozen fish increased 11 per cent, 101 pounds; Vienna, 105 pounds; 'Rome INCREASE and when compared with the holdings on 11 pounds. High prices for fish are pre~ Bluefish ...... , ...... 34 May 1, 1929, tJ1ey decreased 7 per cent. vailint=r in· Italy. Butterfish ...... , ...... 640 Other fish in cold storage decreased 16 Imports, also, are big. Some 46,000 tons Cod, haddock, hake, etc...... 199 per cent under the same month last year, of cod alone entered Italy in 1927, Can- I' Founders ...... , . . . . 33 and increased 5 per cent when compared ada and Denmark supplying 25 per cent 1v!ackerel . , , ...... , . . . . 1 with last month. each, France 15 per cent, Norway 12 per Scup ...... 101 cent and the United States two per cent. ~~ Stocks in cold storage consiste{l of 6,- Some 1400 tons of canned sardines were Shellfish ...... , . . . 1.15 484,580 ·poumls of herring, 2,221,533 Smelts ...... , ...... 37 imported by Italy during the year from Squid ...... 66 pounds of halibut, 966,119 pounds of cod. Portugal and Snain. Sturgeon and spoonbill cat ...... , . 86 2,511,850 pounds of salmon, 872,078 • • * pounds of haddock, 460,029 pounds of The "talkies" are said to be w-orking a Weakfish ...... , ...... 56 whitefish, 237,032 pounds of mackerel, and Whitefish ...... , , . . . 91 revolution in the theatrical business and I 3,743,521 pounds of all other varieties. it is hoped that such is the case. Some DECREASE During the month of 1by, 2,137,081 tall talking will have to be done, however, Catfish ...... 43 pounds of fish \Verc frozen as compared to inject anything interesting of enter Cisco (T'ullibee) ...... , , . , . . . . 31 1vith 955,683 noull{ls frozen during the taining or educational into the mass of Croakers ...... 27 month of April. inane movies afflicting the public. l' The*SECO D CARLOAD of NORDIC FILLET I OF HADDOCK is now being Distributed to the Trade by VANCAMP Organizations LOS ANGELES SAN PEDRO SAN DIEGO Phone TRinity 5371 Phone 2680 Phone Main 4490 SO. CALIFORNIA'S LEADING AND LARGEST FRESH FISH PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS ¥ Dealers this car followed our first in three weeks time. Nordi!l Fillet of Haddock has taken hold in your territory. Plenty of Dealer Helps. Phone or write our nearest branch for infor- ' mation. · p.ugust, 1929 T f...:r l='. \Y.J F S T COAST FISHERIES 41 Distributors of Fresh, Frozen Salted and Smoked Fish ~ Teleph~,:~ VAndike 3067 ~ 604 East Fourth Street Los Angeles, California -Firms advertising on this page are exclusively represented in Southern California by KOULOURIS & WIEST STARFISH COMPANY J. W. ANDERSON, Mgr. SHIPPERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS Warrenton Fisheries Co. -OF- Crabs and Crab Meat Fresh Chinook, Silverside, Bright Fall and Oldest Crab Shippers in Warr~nton Steelhead Salmon in Season WARRENTON, OREGON MAIN OFFICE. WHEELER, OREGON BRANCH OFFICE, BAY CITY, OREGON Washington Fish & Oyster Co., Inc. ·-- Producers and Distributors THE MEREDITH FISH COMPANY FRESH, FROZEN, SALT AND SMOKED FISH Wholesalers of Sacramento River Salmon, Also All Kinds of SHELL FISH Catfish, Striped Bass and Shad LARGEST SHIPPERS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA P. 0. Box No, 954 Tel. Main 54S 116 Eye Street, Sacramento, California CODFISH DEEP SEA BRAND COD STRIPS DEEP SEA BRAND 2-LB. COD BLOCKS BRISTOL BRAND 1-LB. COD TABLETS Sanitary Oyster Co. BRISTOL BRAND COD MIDDLES Planters and Packers of Delaware Bay Oysters KOULOURliS eSc WIEST Quality and Service Guaranteed Los Angeles, California Agents I I PORT NORRIS, NEW JERSEY F. E. Booth Company, Inc. EARS of Experience shipping the West FISHERMAN'S WHARF, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Coast Market Oysters has taught us Quality For Fresh and Frozen Steamer Fish must come first. Phone Orders to Y KOULOURIS & WIEST The 1929-30 Season finds us Ready for Busi Southern Calif_or~ia Representatives ness. It Does Day to Advertise H. W. Sockwell & Sons PLANTERS, PACKERS and SHIPPERS OF Distributed Exch1sivcly in West Coast fisheries CALIFORNIA BY KOULOURIS AND WEIST UNITED STATES FOREIGN TRADE IN FISH Exports falling Off (Millions of dollars and millions of pounds) Imports Exports Domestic Consumption of Fish ou the Pounds Dollars Pounds Dollars Increase 1891 73 5 23 2 1900 79 6 23 2 Exportation of fish from the United 1913 191 11 36 4 States is falling off and domestic con~ 1922 264 21 45 4 sumption is on the increase, according 1923 238 16 31 3 to R. S. Hollingshead, assistant chief, 1924 248 20 34 4 f?odstuffs division of the Bureau of For 1925 235 21 38 5 ~tgn and Domestic Commerce, Wash 1926 279 23 31 4 Ington, D. C. 1927 278 24 33 4 42 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, I PLANT OYSTER SHELLS Santa Crus News Oregon firms Merge 'The first planting of oYster shells in the history of the state of Louisiana was completed last month, according to James WCF lJiafws llonolulu, California Clws. Feller~ Inc., arul Empire N. McConnell, director of the oyster di Deulers Acquainted Comptmy Join Hands vision of that state's department of con servation. The shells were planted along the Louisiana coast from Turkey Bayou Dy ROXIE) HILT Announcement is made by Charles to Petit Pa::.s. Packers in the vicinity have Feller, president of Chas. Feller, Inc., pledged themselves to return a certain Proof that VVCF is >videly read i .Marshfield, Ore., that the company has portion of their oyster shells each year shown by a letter just received by th~ joined hands with the Empire Fish & to keep up the planting program. C. Stagnaro Fish Company from George Cold Storage Company of Empire, Ore., Mr. 1vicConnell estimates that within Ronitz, import and export dealer of in forming a nciv company, which goes the next two years about 150,000 barrels Honolulu. Mr. Ronitz stated that he had under the name of Feller Fish Company. of ovsters v·iill be taken from the mud discovered Stagnaro's name in the c~l~ This latter company is leasing the bank-s where the first shells were placed. u_nms of the \VC;• an~ asked for Quota plants of Cbas. Feller, Inc., at Marsh It is also planned to plant 20,000 barrels lions on the gcnmnc stlver smelts caught field, Ore., and the plant of the Empire of the shells in Sister Lake in T'crrcbons at .Santa Cruz. He also asked about cut Fish & Cold Storage Company at Em Parish on the oyster reservation used for tlefish and gave detailed instructions on pire, Ore. The stockholders of the Feller the cultivation of young oysters. how fish should be pa~ked and shipped Fish Company are the original stock A preference was exp_r_essed for fish holders of Chas. Feller, Inc., Chas. Fel "loose-packed" in barrels over solid froz ler, H. A. Kaeppler and Carl G. Bock, TO FISH IN UTAH en fish. who has taken over the controlling inter Silver smelt were plentiful during April est of the Empire concern. Joe Scott and son were in Los An and May but arc now scarce, so C. Stag p-eles during the last of July getting nets naro has none to ship. Jack smelts, rock All fresh f1sh .shipments are going and tackle ready to fish in Utah for cod, and salmon were the July head! in~ through the Marshfield plant, while the carp and suckers. For the Utah fish they ers. Fishermen going out for rock cod mild-curing, salting and allied branches are represented bv Fletcher \Viest. The complain of bakes eating all the bait off of the business arc being conducted at Scotts have been· fishing under contract their trolls. There is no local market Empire. Deliveries of fish are taken at for the state of Arizona, getting rid of for hakes. When caught they are thrown both plants and the combination of the undesirable fish in rivers and lakes. back into the bay. two plants makes it very convenient for general operations, both for fishermen on the one hand and for the dealers on the other. All.'cadian Sea!;ood Oakland Fish Company Carl Bock was for many years closely Company associated with the Buehner Timber in WHOLESALE terests and is in charge of the Empire FISH, SHRIJ\IP, OYSTERS, Fresh, Salt, Dried plant, while Chas. Feller, president, acts CRABS, TURTLE, ETC. Note: We buy Dnrrncudn, Yellowtail, Sea as general manager for the operations of 501-527 Napoleon Avenue Bnss, Bonito, J ewfish for snit. Producers the Feller Fish Company as a whole. New Orleans, La. quote us prices per ton. 1vir. Feller declares that he is assured of Orders Shipped to Any Part of the 505 Washington Street steady supplies of salmon for the next United States Oakland, California l three months. ~~~~~~~~~--~~ ~~~~~~~~~l J. R. Burke Collier H. Buffington Gold Beach Packing Cold Storage FOR II I Company FISH ' Wholesale Distributors of FRESH SALMON, HALIBUT, BLACK COD, Special Facilities I LING COD, ROCK COD AND SMELTS We are equipped with special facility for Rush Orders to Our Eureka, California, Branch handling, freezing and storing fish. I I. Telephone 612 Conveniently Located We are operating the only fish~storage plant in the downtown district of Los Angeles. Careful Handling American Fisheries There is over thirty-five years of ex~ perienc.e behind our Cold Storage I Inc. service. This experience plus mod~ ern facilities guarantees to our cus~ tamers efficient handling and per Purveyors to the Discr~minating fect preservation of their fish. r Not the Largest, but the Best Fresh, Salt or Smoked Fish Los Angeles Ice & Cold Storage Company of I MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF California Consumers Co. SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA Cold Sto·rage Office, 715 East 4th Street, Los Angeles Telephone: TRinity 1861 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 43 New Car On Display San Pedro Markets First Autonwtic Rt!/rigerator Cur Burracuda Leads Landings a/ Fresh Arrives With Fillets Fish During July On J~ly 6 Southern _Califo:nia saw the By CEO. T. OTA fi st sihca gel automatic rcfngerator car, 1Jcn the initial shipment of Nordic fil For the month of July, local tuna run t'ts1 of haddock arrived at San Pedro for started the last part of June but catches tl e Van Camp Organizations, new dis are all small. Barracuda sea bass and tributors of the commodity for Califor American mackerel \vere brought in stea nia south of Santa Barbara. dily and rock cod, rOck bass and spanish mackerel coming in next. There is hard Ti1c unique car was inspected by large crowds of the curious as it stood on the ly any albacore caught and all the can sidetrack of the municipal fish wharf. ning houses are packing American mack This type of car, while suitable for the erel. transportation of all classes of perish Coast Fishing Company of Wilming able freight, has proved to be particularly ton, Halfhill Tuna Packing Company 1atuable in handling fish and other fro and Curtis Corporation of Long Beach z~n and pre-cooled products, as it is cap received 100 tons of albacore from Japan able of maintaining extremely low tem on July 14 and 150 tons on July 28 peratures. Millions of pounds- of frozen brought in by Dollar Line steamers. fish have been moved . long distances, Over 1500 tons of albacore were im ranging from 1500 to nearly 400 miles, ported all ready from Japan this year. during the hot summer months, with prac The following is the amount of fish tically no variation in the temperature caught and landed in San Pedro Whole Of the cargo. sale Fish Market for the month of June, It is not necessary to stop the car en reported by State Fish Exchange: rOute for re-icing and a uniform tempera ture is assured, according to C. M. Small, Fish ·Lhs. n\anager of the Van Camp· Organizations, Anchovies ...... ·-·... 5,895 who received and inspected the first car Barracuda ...... " ...... " .... 395,219 load of fillets. Other car-lot shipments Blackbass ...... 1,145 are expected shortly, Mr. Small states. Blue bass ...... ; . . 319 The refrigeration is accomplished Bcinito' ...... ::. 14,157 through silica gel, which is a hard, glas Cab ria ...... -". . . 3,930 sy· material with the appearance of a Flying fish ....._ ...... - ... ·.... 7,324 dear quartz sand. The physical structure Halibut ...... 23091 of it is extremely porous, voids constitut J~wfish ...... 1558 ing 41 per cent of its volume. These Kingfish ...... 19,891 minute voids give silica gel the ability Mackerel, American .._ ...... 197,671 t'o absorb relatively large quantities of Mackerel, Spanish .._ ...... _... 36,072 vapors, upon which fact the operation of Perch ...... 1125 the car is based. Rockbass ...... 29,309 Rockcod ...... 46,928 Charles Allwdeff Sardine ...... 9,681 J'i Creation of a new idea·in the distribu Total landings of fish at San Pedro and J tion of fish ·a·.nd the' establishment of a YVilmington canneries and markets dur~ j new brand, the Sea Maid fillet of had mg the month of 1viay amounted to 19 ,. dock, is announced 'by the Los Angeles 270,572 pounds, .according to a report b}: _._·ish & Oyster Company, of which Jack L. G. Van Vorhts, deputy at the Terminal 1. Deluca and Joe DiNbssa are proprietors. Island office of the California Fish and This scheme of merchandising was inau Game Commission. Sardines, with more gurated last September >vhcn the H. G. than nine million pounds, led the receipts Chaffee chain of meat and fish markets mackerel running second with nearly si~ >vas supplied \Vith fillets, according to million. The total for Los Angeles cou~ty :Mr. Deluca. was 20, 594,345 pounds. The trend to\vard fillets is gaining mo The total deliveries for the month by_ mentum daily, ·according to Mr. Deluca species, follow: and other dealers ·in a position to know. Species Deliveries Arrangements are being made by dis Abalone ...... 265,280 tributors throughOut the County to handle Albacore ...... 11,496 the fillets in large quantities and the· Anchovies ...... 6,765. housewife is according the fillet unusual Barracuda ...... 862,226 favor. ' Bonita ...... 23,717 Flounders ...... 98 Southern Califo':"nia is especiallV adapt Dave Jagers and Jack Maurer, right, manager in ed to fillets. B·ecause· of the smitH families the new American Fisheries, Inc., market at Long Flyingfish ...... , . . . 12,770 and apartment-house dwellings a food Beach, Calif. Greyfish ...... 19,777 which is alrea-dy orepared is a great con Halfmoon ...... 616 venience. There is no waste or trouble to Halibut ...... 50,075 fillets and they are packed in cold storage Kingfish ...... , 32,868 directly after being caught. The Los New Store Opened Mackerel, American ...... 5,986,697 Angeles Fish & Oyster Company main Mackerel, Horse ...... • 3,642 tains a production plant at San Pedro 1lixed fish ...... 3,614' American Fisheries, Inc., Has Marlwt in Mullet ...... 390 and a main office at 739 Kohler Street, Long Beach j Los Angeles. The new Sea Maid fillets Perch ...... SO arc being put on the market through an Pompano ...... _. 937 \ elaborate program ,vhich should he of The American Fisheries, Inc., mumct Rock Bass ...... 9,7531 interest to the trade in general. T'he ad pal fish wharf, San Pedro, Calif., an Rockfish ...... 91,615 vertising schedule calls for radio pUb nounces the opening of a new retail store, Sardines ...... 9,629,915 licity, magazine and newspaper space and by the company in the Ocean Center Sculpin ...... 10,262 the issuance of recipe books. The fillets Building, Pine and Ocean Avenues, Sea Bass, Black ...... 569 are packed in 15-pound and 25-pound car Long Beach. The store opened for bus Sea Bass, Vlhite ...... • 107,406 . tons and the company is the exclusive dis iness on August 1. Sheepshead ...... 9,849 { tributor of the brand. It will cater to retail trade and to the Skate ...... 642 . That fillets are the coming thing in ·fish better wholesale trade such as cafes and Skipjack ...... 469,240 merchandising is becoming more and restaurants, all of the fish being supplied Smelt ...... 38,137 1 more in evidence, according to me·n· .in directly from the wholesale house in San Sole ...... 1,178 ; the business all along the coast. The fil Pedro. The market, which has been S\vordfish , ... , . , , , . , , ... , .. , .. 1,121 I let has met with such success that every leased ·for five years, is declared to be Tuna, Bluefin ...... 61 body is getting into the swim. the best location for such a store in South Tuna, Yellow fin ...... 1,528,0061 ern California, due to the fact that many \Vhitefish ...... 6,162 Yellowtail ...... 85,098 A. LIVINGSTON PASSES travel past it daily. I Jack 1viaurer, formerly owner of the Deep Sea Fish market, is manager of the 1928 SHRIMP PACK I The trade has received news of the store. He is assisted by Dave Jagers. Florida produced 79,217 cases of canned t death .o~ Abral~am H. Livingston, 57, head The market is outfitted in all new and of Ln~mgston s Fancy Food Products shrimp and 13,967 cases of canned oysters Company, Inc., of Los Angeles, who modern equipment, including a nine-foot during 1928, according to the United passed away at a hOSpital .in Los An VVeber sho,vcase. States Bureau of Fisheries. The shrimp geles on July 25, following a sudden American Fisheries, Inc., states that pack ·was valued at $585,410, while the breakdown a ·few days befOre. 'fhc fu the opening of the store is the beginning oysters brought $73,160. !leral '\-vas held on August 3. Mr. Liv of a program of supplying the firm's cus Seven Southern states arc producing !ngston -..vas for many years in .business tomers directly in order to do away with canned shrimp and oysters and Florida m Los Angeles .. About two years ago cut-throat competition. might' easily lead all of them in the vol~ he underwent an operation and his ume of production if the business were health was never the -same afterward al expanded, says the Florida State Chant !houg-h he \Vas ·apparently in good he'alth her of Commerce. In the production of just before his fatal hreakdo-wn. canned shrimp Florida was exceeded hr Georgia, ?vfississippi and Louisiana, while it occupied last place in the output of IJ-It~retlith Au(mtl~ oysters. Ellu Convention I Azzie Meredith of the ?vieredith Fish TRANSPORTATION CHANGES \ Company, Sacramento, attended the Elks convention in Los AngeleS, for which he The Traffic Department of the U. S.l reports an extremely busy and entertain Fisheries Association announces notice o( ing time. His time was So taken up \vith mte changes among which arc hvo apply~ , the convention that he was unable to ing to California: l visit his many friends in Southern Cali Fresh and frozen fish, clams and oys~ l fornia. ters from N e'v England points to NeW [ York City; dried shrimp, Houma, La., to California; fish oil, California to Tex<~ 5 No Ketchum and Oklahoma; canned fishery products 1-Iother: Son, why arc :ruu going out from 1viaine to Virginia; fish, oysters and fishing every day? A Santa Barbara, Calif., landmark, where the S, shirmp, south Atlantic and Gulf por~s . Son: Well, Mary said she'd marry me Larco Fish Company has been in business for over to Greenville, N. C.; frozen fish, Tv,•tn tf I could catch a fish bigger than myself. half a century, Cities, 1Jinn., to C.F.A. territory. 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 45 OR EGO NEWPORT FISH COMPANY Umpqua Fish, Storage CRAD MEREDITH, Manager WHOLESALE_ SHIPPERS and Supply Company Of Salmon, Halibut, Ling Exclusive Producers of Cod and Snappers BRIGGS JERKED FISH NEWPORT, OREGON SEAFOOD SUPREME Nehalem Bay Fish Co. Gardiner, Oregon H. W. KLEIN, Mgr. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Chinooks, Steelheads, Silvers and Bright Fall Salmon Let ·us quote' you. J. E. Lawret1ce & Co. WHEELER, OREGON MERCHANDISE BROKERS General Sea Foodl!l and Fish Products Portland, Oregon 242 Salmon St~et THE OREGON FISH CO. Columbia River Smelts Also Wholesale Dealers arid Shippers J. H. REEVES-BROKER-Established 1914 Fresh, Salt and Smoked Fish, Crabs, Clams, Oysters and Sales Agent for Firms from Seattle to San Diego New Accounts Solicited Various Sea Foods Shipper of Salmon, Cod, Suckers, EtC~ ' Telephone Atwater 5127 809 E. 76th St. N., Portland, Oregon 143 Front Street Portland, Oregon Steve Duemovich, .Owner and Manager THE WESTERN FISH COMPANY TINT'S FISH MARKET Wholesale Distributors Wholesale Distributors of Columbia River Salmon and other Marine Products Branches: SPECIALIZING IN CRABS AND CRAB MEAT Columbia River Salmon, Carp, Suckers and Smelts Bay Center, Wash., Walport, Ore. 124-126 First St. Portland, Ore. Also all kinds of Fresh, Salt, Smoked and Pickled Fi9h, Oysten, Clams, Crabs, etc. Telep-hone Atwater 3511 206 Yamhill Street Portland, Oregon Telephone Broadway 3690 j. F. Meehan, Manager PORTLAND FISH COMPANY SALMON AND HAUBUT-Also Fresh, Smoked, Pickled Fish and Oysters Unexcelled Service All Orders Filled at the Lowest Market Price 34 Front Street Portland, Oregon COAST FISHERIES Wholesale Fish Dealers Specializing in Salmon, Crabs. and Crab Meat Sunset Fish Co. Shad and Shad Roe Wholesale Distributors of We Own and Operate Our Own Fleet of Nehalem Bay Chinook, Silverside, Bright Fails Fishing Boats and Stee:heads WIRE US FOR PRICES Prices on Request WHEELER, OREGON REEDSPORT, OREGON 46 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929. WAS TON JP' ashingtt'fn Ocean Columbia River: Caught Halibut Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Lbs. Halibut arrivals for the season from Chinook Sockeye Silver Stcclhead Shad Sturgeon' Total May, 1928 ...... 836,505 976 27,938 322,396 11,409 1,199,224 Feb. 16 to 1lay 31 are reported at May, 1929 ...... 1,077,235 687 43 20,607 397,869 19,065 1,515,506 13,736,575 lbs. as compared with a total June, 1928 ...... 870,701 115,514 6 116,711 231,598 9,954 1,344,484 of 5,630,175 lbs. reported last year for the June, 1929 ...... 926,781 216,450 46 98,885 159,028 9,146 1,410,336 same period. June arrivals this year to- Totals- taled 1,448,400 lbs. as against 2,063,153 1928 ...... 1,707,206 116,490 6 144,649 553,994 21,363 2,543,708 lbs. in 1928. 1929 ...... 2,004,016 217,137 89 119,492 556,897 28,211 2,925,842 -· E. j. Whitman, President E•t. 1892 HAINES OYSTER CO. Largest shippers of Shellfish San Juan Fishing on the Pacific Coast Puget Sound Scallops, Shrimpment, Crabmeat, Olympia Oysters, Rock Point Oysters, Deep Sea Cmbs, Clams and all other shellfish. -QUALITY ALWAYs- & Packing Co., Inc. Pier No, 12. Telephone Main 6800. Seattle, Washington WHOLESALE DEALERS, PACKERS AND SHIPPERS OF Fresh, Frozen, Salt, Smoked BALL and OLSON and Canned Fish PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS ' -OF- A,LSO: Fresh prime chilled Salmon and Halibut Chinooks, Silvers, Steelheads and Bright Fall Steaks wrapped in parchment paper bearing San Salmon, also Sturgeon Juan trade mark and packed in small, convenierit SOUTH BEND, WASHINGTON size fiber packages. -BRANCHES- WHEN YOU ARE IN DOUBT Seward, Alaska - Port Lawren.ce, Alaska - Ketchikan, Alaska Uganik Bay~ Alaska - Port San Juan, Get in touch -with the Alaska • Tutka Bay, Alaska - Pacific Fisheries Co., WHIZ FISH CO. LTD., Prince Rupert, B. C. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS FOOT OF STACY ST. FRESH, SALT AND SMOKED FISH Seattle, Washington Always on the Job Whiz Dock, Seattle, Washington Washington State Health Establi.ahed 1893 Certitleate No. 3 John Hannula Jr. Fish Company Producers and Distributors J. J. BRENNER OYS'l'ER CO. Throughout the Year of Growers and Wholesale Shippers of the FAMOUS FRESH OLYMPIA OYSTERS Steelhead, Chinook Silver, and Salmon { AND CLAMS No c~!?.;:.~ ~;AsoN I 502 Fourth Ave. West Olympia, Washington L!&;i;Fi;;o;';ot;;;;,;o;,f,;D;;;;:S;;tri;'ie;;e;,t ,_,_,_,_,_,_;;;;;;A:;,;;he;;;ri;diiieeiiinii;':,W;i;i,iru~h•;;'ni;':gt;i;o~n;;;;il I rr======~ t, -=MA FISH AND PACKING COMPANY IF IT'S SEAFOOD-SEE US ~· WHOLESALE SHIPPERS RIPLEY FISH COMPANY, INC. OF FRESH, FROZEN AND SMOKED FISH DEPENDABLE QUAUTY Specializing in Puget Sound Salmon ock Street Telephone Main 1061 Tacoma, Washington Pier No. 9 Seattle, Washington 1 p.ugust, 19 2 9 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 47 A major misfortune came when Mr. Chas. Credat Ill Creciat and his son were on a trip north. \Vhile in swimming the son became Misforturu~ Hits P o p n l a r Fresh Fish caught in wire under the water and was ltlan dragged under, drowning- before he could be rescued. Loss of his son was a severe A movement was launched the first of blow to the father, and took much of his the present month by his many friends vitality and fighting will. Later his daughter contracted tuberculosis and it in the fresh fish business to raise a fund was necessary to send her to Arizona. for the aid of Charles H. Creciat, ·who has been stricken low by several mis Mr. Creciat is noiv seriously ill in bed at fortunes, until he is ill and unable. to his home at 3815 \Voodlawn avenue, Los Angeles. Send your checks direct to work. Mr. Creciat was once a prosperous Mr. Crcciat. Remember he needs you fresh fish dealer and was noted for his now. This publication leads the list with kindness and hospitality toward all. It a $10 contribution. has been said that he hasn't an enemy in the world. In fact, he was so generous that he did not accumulate that rainy PLUMAR WITH K. & W. day reServe which he would have had if Carl Plumar is now associated with ·he had been less generously inc:lined. Barr Wiest of Koulouris & \,Vicst, sea Then he lost his business and went to food broker at 604 East Fourth street, work for the W red en Packing & Provis Los Angeles, Calif. 1vir. Plumar was ion Companv of Los Angeles, but before formerly ·with the F. E. Booth Company, long the constant "ice box" work under CHAS. H. CRECIAT working for the company both in Los mined his health. Angeles and Long Beach. STOCKTON West Coast fisheries P. BUSALACCHI & BROS. WHOLESALE FISH DEALERS Serves the West Coast Also Producers and Shippers of Catfish, Shad, Striped Ba.ss and Not only in name but Salmon Standing Orders Solicited PHONE Stockton 1032 or 4095 IN FACT 29-31 E. Ch::nnel S!... Stockton, California Offices at Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro. Calif., and Representatives and Correspondents from San Diego to SACRAMENTO Seattle. Subscription, $3.50 per annum. Telephone Main 475 EST. 1880 TONG SUNG COMPANY WILMINGTON Commission Merchants and oldest Fish Shippers in Northern Californa Branch: Reno, Nevada • • 916 Third St., Sacramento, Cal. 4 Fisheries SAN LUIS OBIISPO Wholesale Distributors by Experience Producers Quote Us On All Kinds of Fresh Fish and Established 1918 Telephone 864 Specialties SAN LUIS FISH COMPANY 224-6 W. Anaheim Wholesale Dealers of Fresh Fish and Shell Fish WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA . 581 Dana Street P. 0. Box 305 San Luis Obispo, Calif. FORT BRAGG SANTA MONICA PALACE FISH COMPANY WHEN IN THE MARKET P. L. HINES, Owner Shippers, quote us-on Halibut, Salmon, Striped Bass, Roe, FOR NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SALMON Shad, Catfish, Shrimps and all ldnds of Specialties Established since 1904 1421 3d St., Santn. Monica, Calif. Wire The UNITED FISH CO.. EST. 1920 JIM MATTHEWS, PROP. FORT BRAGG, CALIF. MATTHEWS FISH COMPANY WHOLESALE FISH DEALERS AND PACKERS Dealers in aU kinds of fresh fish-Shippers quate us on specialties I OF SALMON SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA I]=.... • 48 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August, 1929 MONTEREY SAN PEDRO WE SHIP THE BEST AND FRESHEST U. HIGASHI, Propriet.or Independent Fish Co. The Higashi Fish Co.. G. MINEGHINO, Mgr. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS Wholesale Distributors of Sea Foods -OF- "When Others Fail Try Us" ALL KINDS FRESH FISH Specializing in Standing Orders ! Telephone 857 29 City Wharf MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA Phone 475 Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro We Handle Nothing But the Best l. Takigawa, Pres., Mgr. Est. Since I 9 0 2 At Lowest Prices. Good, Fresh Fish Products of all kinds, at a.ll times. Send us your standing order "If It Swims, We Have It" PACIFIC COAST FISH CO. and NAKAHARA COMPANY Pacific Mutual Fish Co., Inc. Ship Chandlery and Supplies . Phones: 907 and 908 P. 0. Box 267 Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Calif. Producers and Distributors of FRESH FISH SAN PEDRO FISH CO. Wholesale Dealers and Standing Order Shippers of all WE SHIP ANYWHERE California Seafoods PROMPT and RELIABLE-"QUICK SERVICE,. Municipal Fish Wharf San Pedro, California Write us regarding SHELL and SLICED ABALONE, MILD-CURED SALMON, SAR - DINES and ANCHOVIES in brine or dry salted. Vincent Di Meglio Est. 1897 Annie Di Meglio Jack Cuomo Telephone 368-P. 0. Box T Cable Address "Pac-Mutual" Ocean Fish Company 23-25-27 Municipal Wharf; Monterey, California DISTRIBUTORS All Kinds F resb, Salted, Smoked and SANTA BARBARA Fish Specialties Standing Order Given Special Attention Wire for Our Quotations Established 1870 WIRE FOR OUR TELEPHONES S. LARCO FISH COMPANY QUOTATIONS Market Phone 229 Residence Phone 1596 We ship everywhere--all kinds of California Sea-Foods. Special attention given to, standing orders MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF, San Pedro, Calif. SERVICE PAR-EXCELLENCE Specializing in Lobsters-Live and Cooked 214 State Street Santa Barbara, California Established 1897 NEWPORT BEACH We ship standing orders all over Texas, J. P. HORMAN FISH CO. California, Arizona, WHOLESALING I Halibut, Roclt Cod, Rock Bass, Maclterel, Jewfish and Smelts Nevada, New Mexico, I Telephone 350-W Newport Beach, Calif. I Etc. NOTE: We are large I FRANK SUTTORA FISH CO. buyers of all kinds of ! WHOLESALE SHIPPERS Fresh Fish and Spe- I Halibut, Rock Cod, Rodt Bass, Mackerel, Jewfish and Smelts cialties. Please quote Telephone 269 or 134 Newport Beach, Calif. I us on volume. SAN PEDRO Producers, Packers and Shippers of All Kinds of FRESH, SALTED and SMOKED FISH l PIONEER FISHERIES LOBSTERS, OYSTERS, CRAMS Wholesalers of all kinds of Fresh Fish, :Perch, Kingii.sh, Smelts, Mackerel, Lobsters, Etc. STANDING ORDER SPECIALISTS Standard Fisheries Company Telephone 10, Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Calif. Phone San Pedro 5, Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro. ""p.ugust, 1929 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES 49 ~~~======SAN PEDRO LOS ANGELES Cable Address, "Mutual" Wreden Packing & Provision Co. Bentley's Complete Phrase Extensive Dealers in Fish Meat and Poultry in Los Angeles for the past 30 years. PRODUCERS AND SHIPPERS KINDLY QUO~£ DIRECT Main Plant a'nd OffiCes: 129 South Main Street Los Angeles, California Mutual Phone MUtual 4351 Fish Company FISHERY PRODUCTS REUABLE BROKER OF ALL KINDS OF SEA FOOD Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Calif. Fresh, Salt or Cured Wholesale Fresh Fish Dealers Import-Export-All kinds of marine products CALMEX O,J:l-J:lO, BRAND MINCED ABALONE HENRY DOWDEN co. DISTRIBUTORS Packers of 598 Clay Street San Francisco, Calif. "Pampco" Brand Tempra Fish Cake Packed by MARINE PRODUCTS CO. Pac.ltcrs of ABALONE, TUNA, LOBSTER arid other sea roods O,J:l-J:lO., Export Office, 416 West 8th St., Los Angeles George T. Ota, Manager GEORGE F. NAYLOR Telegraph "Mutual" for your fish requirements General Sea Food Broker All Kinds Fresh, Frozen, Salt and Cured Fish Telephone TUcker 4293 Established 1911 · Telephones: 333. and 334] 204, _337 South Central Avenue ZANKlCH BROS. FISH CO. Los Anielesi California' · ' , WHOLESALE SHIPPERS WITH A REPUTATION Telephone i474, Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Calif. 1 STAR FISHERIES Los· Angeles Fi$h · and Wholesale Distributors of All Kinds of Southern Calif. Sea Foods If you crave Service place your requirements with us Tolophonu Mnln 0105 Telophonc 2525 P. o. Box 305, San Diego, Calif. Munlolpnl Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Cal. Oyster Company Y. KAMIYA, Mgr. E•t. 1910 Producers and Distributors CENTRAL FISH COMPANY of Super-Quality Sea Foods Shippers of all kinds of Southern California Fresh Fish. Depend on us to supply your wants regardless of the quantity MAINTAINING JAPANESE SHIPPING DEPARTMENT Fresh, Frozen, Salt, Smoked Fish 41Stnnding Orders" Tel. 834. Care Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro, Calif. Specializing LOS ANGELES I SEAMAID BRAND fillETS MARINE FISH COMPANY Also \Ve nrc Large Buyers of All Kinds of Seafoods. Quote us Volume. Specialties in Season We operate 13 Stock Trucks covering all of Los Angeles County. Telephone TRinity 5371. 1214 Produce St.. Los Angeles, Calif. Home Office: 739 Kohler Street Telephone V Andike 2084 CENTRAL FISH AND OYSTER CO. PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTICE:-We buy aU kinds of Fish, espe Los Angeles, California cially Carp, Black Cod, Mullet, White Fish, Rock Cod, Halibut Snlmon and Specialties. Producing Branch-San Pedro--Telephone 520 Tel. VAndike 3740. 1012-14 So. Central Ave., Los Angeles, Calif 50 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES August,· I LOS ANGELES SAN DIEGO Young's Market Company Van Camp Organizations Wholesale Fish Division Producers of Supreme quality Sea Foods Los Angeles LIVE AND COOKED LOBSTERS Texas Shipments Made Direct from San Diego Attention, Producers: Quote us fresh fish and WIRE FOR PRICES sPecialties 867 Harbor Street, San Diego, Calif. 410 Towne Ave. Phone Metropolitan 6366 Harbor Fish Company H. DAKIS, Proprietor Established, 1914 Wholesale Dealers San Diego Fisheries Co. Fresh, Salted, Snioked and Canned Sea Foods Direct Wholesale Dealer in Fresh Seapfood All. varieties. of Shell Fish and Specialties OUR SPECIALTY~LIVE AND COOKED. LOBSTERS PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTE:-Quote us on all kinds SHIPPED EVERYWHERE Fresh Fish and Specialties Wit"e Us for Quotation-We Respect Standing Ordt:rs 631-633 .Central Ave., Los Angeles, California Telephone: Main 9698 ' Phones. TR 6259, TR 6250 Street ·Box 77 San M. N. Blumenthal If It Swims We Have.It • • • i The People's Fish Company WHOLESALE FISH BROKER I Producers and DiHributors of ALL KINDS OF CALIFORNIA SEA FOODS Producers' Selling Agent Special attention to Hotels and Restaurants Especially LOBSTERS-Live and Cooked Fresh and Frozen Fish, Frog Legs, Shrimps, Fresb, Smoked, Shell and Fresh Water Fish in Season TELEPHONES: Main 4158 and 4159 Crabs, Scallops, Red Cross Brand Oysters, 869 St. Fillets Quote Your Offerings Prompt and Honest Established 1908 Try THE UNION FISH COMPANY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Direct Wholesale Dealers in Fresh and Salt Fish LOBSTERS--Live and Cooked 405 STANFORD AVENUE 825 Harbor Street San Diego, Calif, STELLAR FISH COMPANY M. H. ISENBERG K. 0. UliMA, Manager Whal0$ale FrM.b Fish and Lobdora FORMERLY ZAISER PRODUCE CO. Specializing to the Jnpanes.o Trada-lully understanding Quality of Fresh Fl1h dcolrod espenln.lly Tuna, Yellow"b.ll, Blll"racuda, Mullets., Senbau, Eto. Wholesale Fish Dealers 825 Harbor Str~t San Diego, Calif. SPECIALIZING IN FRESH WATER FISH We are the oldest firm in Los Angeles handling the '. FRESH WATER FISH TRADE Telephone WEstmore 3263 1812 South Central Ave. Henry Dowden Bryce Florence LAWRENCE OLIVER, Established 1906 AMERICAN FISHERIES CO. HENRY DOWDEN CO. Wholesale Dealers in and Shippers of SALTED, DRIED and PICKLED FISH Salted Barracuda, Yellowtail and Jewfish Brokers Lobsters in Season--Live and Cooked WE SPECIALIZE IN Fish Fertilizer nnd Fish Oil Get Our Prices in Car~lots Before Contracting Elsewhere WIRE FOR QUOTATIONS 841 San Calif. Marine Products Telephone DAvenport 6820 Charles A. Landers 598 Clay Stroet San Francicso, SEA FOOD BROKER Serving the San Diego Trade in Their Outside Fish Requirements Producers Accounts Solicited Municipal Pier Bldg. San Diego, Calif.