The West Coast Fisheries, Volume 2, Number 8, June 1930
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A Morse, Andrew J. & Son, Inc. 26 Mission Bell Petroleum Co... -· 41 Alaskan Glacier Seafood Co .. 61 Mutual Fish Co...... 59 American Can Co ...... Front Cover McCaHrey (The) Co 37 Underwriters Approved American Chain Co...... 26 American Fisheries Co ...... 37, 38 N American Fisheries, Inc...... 59 American Paulin System. Inc. 23 Naylor, Geo. E.- 60 Anderson Barngrover Mfg. Co. 6 Nnhalem Bay Fis~ Co...... 63 Anderson (Arthur) Fhh Co .. 58 New England Fish Co_. __ .. 62 Arcadian Seafoo:l Co __ . 56 Newport Fish Co 63 Arden Salt Co.. 45 0 B Oakland Fish Co.. 64 Bay View Supply Co .. 39 Ocean Fish Co...... 59 Berry Bros. 43 Pacific Mutual Fish ·c~:;-· Inc. 64 Bibb Mfg. Co ...... 21 Paladini (A.), Inc.... 65 Blwnenthal, M. N. .. . 61 Parke & Kibele, Inc 33 Blue Mountain Trout Farm .. 48 Patterson Sargent Co.. 23 Booth (F. E.) Co., Inc ...... 45 People's Fish. Co...... 38 Brenner ·0. J,) OY!Iter Co_ .. 62 Perkins Marine Lamp Corp.. 26 Bristol Bay Pacldng Co ... 56 Pioneer Fisheries ...... 59 Portland Fish Co.. 63 c Protane Bottled Gas Co 41 California Electric Worlcs ...... 41 R California Thorn Ccmlage... 40 Calif. Press Mfg. Co .. Back Cover Reeves, .T. H. . 63 Central California Fish Co ...... 64 Ripley (Edwin) & Son.. __ 62 Central Fish & OY!Iter Co... 60 Ripley Fish Co., Inc .. 62 Central Sheet Metal Works ____ 37 Ritchie (E. S,) & Sons 21 Coast Electric Co.. 40 Coast Fisheries .... -..... 48 s Continental Can Co .. Salazar, M. Luis. 37 Inside Front Cover San Diego Fisheries Co ..... - 38 Cunningham, Allan ...... -...... 43 San Diego Marine Canst. Co.. 41 Custom House Paddng Corp. 46 Sands (A, B.) & Sons Co ..... - 20 Crab-Salmon Fishermen's Pro- San Francisco International tective Assn. 33 Fish Co...... ---.---···-·--·--··· ..... 65 THE "PANAMA" San Juan Fishing & Pacl,ing D Co.. Inc...... --..- ...... ·--·--······ 62 Davis (F. A.) Co ...... 18 San Luis Fi~h Co __ .. _...... '.. -- .... 64 Dowden, Henry Co .. .. 58 San Pedro Boat Building Co., Durntite Putty Co.. 26 Inc ...... _,._ 44 San Pedro Fish Co... 59 This new boat owned by the !to, lshi, E San Pedro Grocery & "S~p·p·iy Co ...... -.... --··· Shindo Syndicate is the latest recruit to Ederer (R J,) Co .. - 23 Sardine Canners' Association o:f Ets· Holdn & Galvan .. - 43 California ...... 52 Seattle Glove Co.. 40 the long list of Lux protected Commer F Sebn:otian Stuart Fish Co...... --··· Fairbanks-Morse & Co_. 3 ..... - ...... Inside Back Cover cial Boats. Federal Wood Yard .. 41 Ser.ur{t"y Trust & Savings Feller, Chas., Inc ...... -.. 5B Bank ··-·· 3 7 Fishermen's Cooperative Assn. 33 Shockey Boiler Works...... 41 Fletcher, Wiest & Co._ .. _. 56 Silvergate Canned Goods.. 40 Frost (D. 0.) Corp .. 40 Southern California Jap. Fish- LUX DISTRIBUTORS ermen's Assn ...... _. __ . 33 G Stamford Foundry Co .. 25 Southern California Northern California Northwest Standard Fisheries 66 General Fisheries Corp ...... 51 Stanrlard Products Co., Inc ____ 25 PAUL W. HILLER JIOUGll & EGBERT ALEX GOW, INC. Gold Beach Packing Co.. . 56 Stand!ird Fisheries Co.. 59 Wllminglon San Francisco Seattle Gross (E. B.) Canning Co ... 52 Star and Crescent Oil Co... 41 Star Fisheries ...... 38, 59 LUX AGENTS H Stellar Fish Co... 38 Haines Oyster Co.. ... 62 Stose, Clem ...... 41 ~unset Fish Co ...... R. V. 1\Iorris ... , ..... , ...... San Diego Hall and Olson ...... 62 63 Superior Sea Food Co__ 60 Yacht & Motor Sales Col'Jl· ...... Wilmington Hannula (John, Jr.) Fish Co_. 62 Suttora (Frank) Fish Co__ Harbor Fish Co...... 60 " Craig Ship Building Co •...... , , Long Beach Harbor Sheet Metal ·w·~k;::·· 33 T Harbor Supply Co __ .. 40 William Sylva Co •...... San Francisco Hendry {C. J.) Co 37 Tacoma Fish & Packing Co .. 62 Beebe Co...... , ...... , . , , .. Portland Hercules Oil Co.... 39 Tint's Fish Market 63 Higashi Fish Co ... -.. ·--· 64 Tower, A. J, Co._ .. 23 Seattle l\Iarine Equipment Co., .... , , , ... Seattle Horman (J, P.) Fish CQ.. 64 Tubbs Cordage Co __ .. 23 Hovden (K.) Co...... 47 Hoffnrs -Ltd. . . , ...... Vancouver u Pacific Salvage Co ••.....•..•. ~ ..•.. Vancouver 38 Independent Fish Co __ i~ g~~~ I~~shCo~~-· _._A2, 44 Ingle Mfg. Co ...... Walter Kidde&: Company, inc. Isenberg, M. N .. 60 v 140 Cedar Street K Van Camp Organizations ... 38, 55 Kidde (Walt-er) & Co., Inc. 4 Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc. 51 New York Kuhls (H. B.) Fred .. 22 Koulouris & Co ...... 57 w Tear out and mnil Coupon to nearest Dealer. Walker, Thomas & Son, Ltd. 25 ·······················---·-······---·--- L Warrenton Fisheries. Co ...... -.. 63 Landers, Chas. A ...... 41 \Veems S.vstem of Navigation. 44 Please Send me copy of "No More Fire Disasters" and Larco ( S. Fish Co ...... 6~ Western California Fish Co 66 Laughlin, The Thomas Co. 21 Western Enterprise Engine Co. 44 Lawrence (J. E. & Co .. 63 Western Salt Co ...... ------···- 51 details of system for my boat...... Long Beach Salt Co ..... 51 Wl'stern States Grocery Co.. 40 ILos Angeles Fish & Oyster WhiT. Fish Co .... ·----······----···· _ 62 she is ...... ft. long; ...... wide and has 2- ...... HP Co. of Los Angeles ... 60 Wickwire Spencer Steel Co'""" 20 Los Angelell Fish & Oyster Woolsey (C. A.) Paint & Col- ...... (Gasoline) (Diesel) Engine • Co. of S, P_ .. 59 or Co, .... -.-.. -·--· 21 Wreden Packing & Provision Natrle ...... _ ..... M Co. 60 Marine Products Co .. 58 Address ...... - ...... _...... _ ...... - ...... Marine Sheet Metal Works .. 44 y Maxwell { Robert) Co .. 39 Young's Market Co .. 60 JUNE, 1930 5
M. v.r. ELEY, Publisher jOHN T. WATTS, Editor
]. V. CARROLL, A1anagcr Gno. RoGER CHUTE, Research Editor
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Rt·Presentati ) l CONTENTS t l The A lien Fish Duty ...... ____ ...... ____ ...... 7 ! •< • < • < California Canners Form State-If/ide Association ...... 8 < < t 1 Reviewing Business for the Jl!I onth of 111 ay ...... 9 < Fight to Save Young Salmon ...... IO ! t The Salmon Mal (Cont.cnts Copyrighted, 1930 Z,y M. W. Elcy) Subuription Rate;: $3.50 per amwm i11 the United States twd lumlar Po.s.se.s.sions. Foreign Cuuntrie.r, $-1-.50 Advcrti.sers rr.uill take notice that forms close on the 25th of the mouth previous to date of issue. Copy for .lldvcrti.semeuis or directions for changes must be iu the Publisher'; hands ten day.s !Hfore Closing date. _;ld This shows the installation ofA-B Spiral Chain Exhausters in the plant of the Del Mar Canning Co., at Monterey, California 4MEN Instead of Sixteen N this plant four A-B Spiral Chain Exhausters I -four men on the job, one man to each machine -handle an output equal to that requiring sixteen men by the drying-and-frying method. The saving is due to the elimination of dryer and fryer, which are not required by the raw-pack method. The elimination of frying solution also adds substantially to the saving. And there are other savings as well, including a saving of floor space. An installation like this practically pays for itself in one season's operation. Write for complete details or talk with your nearest A-B representative. 1930's cAnderson-Barngrol'cr are ready rvit!J unsurpassed engineering and . manufacturing facilities~ to work with yor~ in p11tting your plant in the PROFITS best possible physical condition for low-cost prodt~ction ofa quality pack. ANDERSON-BARNGROVER MFG. CO. Is your plant organized for DIVISION OF FOOD MACHINERY CORPORATION speedy low~cost production 70 PINE STREET, SAN FRANCISCO this season? There is no Factories: San Jose and Hayward, California surer »'ay to increase yoJlT profits than to decrease your costs. Ask us for a copy of the Nielsen Surrey showing A~ SPIRAL CHAIN an actual perfonnauce rec~ B ord under aYerage operat ing conditions. EXHAUSTER THE ~\fiESlr fC(JtASlr IFIISIH IEIRIIES PUBliSHED FOR THE FISHERIES Of ! I Alien Fish Duty A Bugaboo to West Coast fishermen OJ\IE \"lEEKS ago a Japanese fishing boat laid fish arc· dutable, if A RUMPUS WHICH S down fish on the docks of Seattle, unwittingly light caught by alien fish now resounds through ing ·the firebrand to a blaze which has burned brightly cnnen outside the the halls of Washington ever since; and the extinguishment is not yet in sight. three-mile limit. had its co1nmencenzent a Seattle producers, naturally, appealed to the U. S. Cus Fresh and fro jew weehs ago when. a toms officials of the port to assess a duty on the Japan zen halibut, salmon, Japanese boat brought a ese-brought fish. These officials, looking into their mackerel and s\vonl load of fish into Seattle. records, verified the fact that such a law exists and put fish call for a duty Now all alien fishermen it into force. 'I'he case Was carried to the courts and of two cents pir are threatened tvit h a upon finally being upheld by the court of appeals, the pound; all other va high cluty. Outcome of Treasury Department, under the signature of Secretary rieties not so specif the sit,uation is still to be Andrew l\fcllon, issued a decision requiring that the ically provided for wen. duty on fish caught by aliens outside the three-mile are taxed at one cent limit be put into effect. per pound. Bismarck Housscls, vice president of the Van Camp Should the duty be enforced, it would be necessary Sea Food Co., Inc., in \Vashington on other business, to put on approximately IS more Customs officials in took the question up \vith Senator Shortridge of Cali the San-Pedro-Long Beach area alone and collection of fornia. Legislative relief appeared unpractical, it de the duty \VOttlcl still be manifestly difftcult, it is recog veloping that the southwest \Vas the only district vi nized. Every time alien fishermen came to port with tally interested in the duty because of its large nmnber a load of fish they would be required to file an inward of alien fishermen. forward manifest in ballast, attaching to it an affidavit Collectors of Customs at Pacific ports have advised signed by the master and two members of the crew the Treasury Department in \Vashington of their vari that the fish was caught within the three-mile limit, ous situations in connection with the alien dutv, and or else the duty would be levied. It vvoulcl then be up as we go to press none of them have received further to the Customs officials to prove that the fish was not orders. caught within the three-mile limit, if such they sus Should the duty finally be declared collectable, fisher picioned. men have two points in their favor upon which to carry It is difficult to draw an arbitrary line and the ''high it into federal court for an injunction. The first of seas" off Southern California have not been considered these arguments is that the boats participating in the by the Customs service to begin with the three-mile fishery, particularly that of California, arc American line from the mainland, but to begin outside the area built, fish out of American ports, whether they go be of coastal islands. In this district most of the taxable yond the three-mile limit or not; fish for American can fish is caught. neries, or, in most cases, American fish dealers, and That is to say, most o-f the fish being caught among have been considered as domestic, whether the owner the island waters of Southern California, Customs of of the boat is American or not. ficials have considered the fish as taken within the do . The second point is that the United States and Japan mestic limits. In 1911 signed a treaty protecting Japanese in this In the Hawaiian Islands, this question of the three country against any higher taxes than Americans pay. mile limit was interpreted somewhat clitierently. iVluch 0£ course, the question of whether or not this duty is of the fish, while caught 'vithin the limit, must he car a tax could be raised. ~ ried across the ''high seas" to another island tn market. The fresh-fish industry would be hardest hit by the Honolulu Customs officials have ruled that fishermen duty should it be put into force. The law empowering must land all of their fish at one dock, accept a levy the dutv exempts tuna, fresh sea herring (sardines), of duty, and then prove that their fish was caught in smelts, ~hrimp, lobsters and other shellfish. All othEr the domestic domain. 8 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES California Canners Form lr;::~:;,;;;;~;;;:;::~;:~;;;; State-Wide about during the session of packers that convened in Los Angeles on fume Association 6. Sardin.e, tttna and m,acke1·el men then determined to unite their enel"gies days the roster will be complete as of 100% representa to o'uercome whatever obstacles may tion throughout the state. impede the future progress and de Three Depart1nents The plan of the founders of the new association is to velopn7ent of, the fish pachng trade. divide its activities among the three major sections of The unanimity displayed in this excep the canning trade, to the end that the interests of each tionless adhesion to the plan is declared may receive due consideration. Sardines, tuna and mackerel group each arc to be encouraged in fostering to be significant evidence of the far individual sub-organizations, and a sufficient degree of reaching importance of the creation of autonomy will be granted to facilitate whatever special the powe1-jul new Associatiou. undertakings any one of them may 1vish to initiate. .As in any similar departmental system, those concern\~d "\Yith any particular phase of the association (as, for ex ISH PACKERS c~f California haYe.or.g-anized what ample, mackerel) will contribute to the support of that Fis luulccl as the first umfied assoctatwn that ever section, since it embodies the peculiar and especial con has been brought into being in all the varied history cenls of lts constituency. Thus the tuna, sardine and of the \Vest Coast fish canning trade. As yet the ros mackerel departments or subdivisions of the parent con ter of adherents and supporters is not claimed to con cern will function individually, promoting their separate tain the signatures of the heads of all of the plant oper betterment, conducting research, or perhaps going even ators of the state, but the feature that is eminently sig farther-yet always with the approval and sanction of nificant, and indicative of what may well be expected the parent Association. in the North District, is the fact that every canner at By-Lmv Co1nntitlee tending the meeting of June 6 enthusiastically lent his At the meeting- held at the Los Ang-eles Biltmore on support to the proj~ct ar:d on the spot declared himself as an adherent to 1ts tn-phase program. the morning of June 6 Frank Van Camp presided and R. E. Ludlum was acting secretary. Discussion was brisk and the business of the occasion marched forward A Complete Representation with successive strides. It having been unanimously "Every canner attending" in this particular instance determined to unite all of the various specialists in fish means something more than ordinarily, for 'vith but packing into a single, unified entity, a committee 'vas one exception all Southern packers were present in appointed to draft by-laws and a constitution. Alfred person, and the lone absentee sent his proxy by an in VV. Eames of the California Packing Corporation, B. structed representative. l\1oreover, in addition to the Houssels of the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc.; E. S. southern group, all of the principle l\Ionterey Bay and VVangenheim of the Carmel Canning Company, and San Francisco corporations were represented-in many Sam Hornstein of the Coast Fishing Company com cJses by their presidents and owners. posed this important group ..These five men met again ~'Everything is going to our liking," declared B. at the Biltmore that same afternoon to discharge their Houssels, towards the close of the session. "We are duties and obligations with the utmost dispatch. greatly encouraged; things look well." Personnel Co1nn1ittee The immediate need for a competent executive secre An. Inclusive Title tary, able to undertake the piloting of the organization's "Yes, we have effected the organization," said Frank destinies, faced the organizers from the time of the in Van Camp, as the meeting came to adjournment. "It ception of the new federation. To consider the field of is to be known as the 'California Fish Canners' Asso a \'ailable material for this important office another ciation' and it will be state-wide in scope, and will con committee of five was selected: B. I-Ioussels of the V ;:1.1, tain within its membership all of the packers of fish, Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., George Rothaug of the F. E. irrespectiYe of what their specialty may be." Booth Company~ Inc., E. B. Gross of the E. B. Gross Operators in the San Diego, Newport, I.,ong Beach, Canning Co., Sam Hornstein of the Coast Fishing Com \IVilmington, Terminal Island and San Pedro districts pany, and Alfred \IV. Eames of the California Packing all have been definitely pledged to the new plan, while Corporation. the majority of the support from northern points is This committee, charged with finding a manager said likewise to have been thro,vn in with the unani competent to cope with the political, commercial and mous movement. It is believed that within 7 to 10 (Couti11ucd or1 Page 11) 9 Reviewing Business for THE MONTH OF MAY CTIVITY AT West Coast canneries is annually PENING OF THE salmon season in the north Asluggish during the month of May. Packers re 0 and of the swordfish season in the south marked call to mind that May, 1929, was no exception. They particularly the month of May-which was quiet in point out, however, that last month was among . the general-for West Coast fresh fish producers and dis slowest of the slow. Some tributors. Neither of these even go so far as to declare fisheries gained any great Canning that it is the slowest May on momentum d u ring the fresh fish record. ·with the salmon month. In fact, the only es business just beginning to sential significance that pro Conditions unlimber for the surnmer, ducers attach to May is that Survey -are proverbially the burden of industry was it comes on -the calendar just -shotvs t It a t stvord· slow in May. This past upon the southern p.ickers, before June, which really be fish, juggler of a nose· momh has perhaps the canners of tuna, macker gins the summer season. knife thought he may been the slowest of the el and sardines. On May 9 the first sword be, has been enslaved Mays. Tuna, the only Sardines are out of season, fish was landed at San Die for another sztntmer. bet in the south, has due to the California statute go, Calif., by the smallest To cheers from the been almighty scarce, put into effect in 1929. The boat of the Beet, "A-495," a halls of Epicurus, the albeit blue/ins tv ere seasons will not reopen un one-man outfit operated by first of the beasts were sighted and caught on til August 1, for the Mon Capt. 'Tony Sousa. This in hau1ed to marlwts of the last of the month, terey district, and November itial specimen tipped the Southern California in 1 for the San Pedro area. >cales at 370 pounds and sold May. 1\'Iay is a bit early for 'IHack for 28 cents per pound, erel, the fish showing no abundance, small size and gen cleaned, or a total of $119.14. On May 21 John Brown eral unreadiness for packing on any large scale. Tuna of the "\i\ihite Star" brought in three more fish which rem.ained as the single bet, and the odds were strongly sold at the same price. 'I'he first swordfish was brought against the packers. to San Pedro on l\{ay 20 by the boat "Austria.H It All packers complained of an extreme shortness of weighed 504 pounds ;ncl hr~ught 25 cents per pound tuna supplies, even for lVIay. l\{em- in the round, being sold to the Los bers of the trade, reading stories Angeles Fish & Oyster Company carried by most newspapers of one of Los Angeles, Calif. The fishery boat's heavy catch (in connection should get into full swing during with which the crew declared that June. hungry tuna struck at tin cans and other unusual inducements), ques San Diego in G·eneral tioned the veraci~y of reports con Aside from swordfish, which held trary to good catches. The boat in the major interest in San Diego, question was an isolated case and -'Llthough contributing comparative but one craft in a fleet of scores ly nothing to the catch during the which returned to port with meaare month, supplies consisted principal loads. !":> ly of yellowtail and rock cod. A T'here is no doubt but that there A typical swordfish, hauled from a record load of halibut, behveen 16,- are plenty of tuna, but l\1ay simply California harpoon boat. 000 and 18,000 pounds, caught in a \Yasn't a good month in which to trammel net bv the ''Rome," Capt. find them. T_he fish are moving rapidly up the coast V. Tasso, could not be absorbed· by the local market from the tropics as the summer progresses and fisher and \Vas taken on to San Pedro. Tasso said that he men found dif1icnlty in locating them. Added to this got the fish off ]\Texico. There \Vere regular supplies difficulty was the fact that the Cape San Lucas season, of barracuda. The local yellowt:til supplied the San up until the past year the mainstay of spring tuna, Diego markets adequately and :iVIcxican-canght yellow proved a failure. Upon the high-sea-caught tuna, there tail was carried on to San Pedro. fore, was the responsibility of supplying the canneries, and l\.iay began the season of storms in the far south San Peclro Where the big boats have been seeking their catches. Practically the same story holds true for San Pedro, About the middle of IVIay purse-seiners began stretch where barr~cuda, rock cod, local halibut, ycllo\vtail, ing their nets and preparing for the California run of and local sea bass provided principal supplies for the markets. Fresh salmon and halibut -.,vas being shipped hluefin tuna. Scouting boats reported of sighting a in from the north. few fish and then, during the last week of the month, the "Oakland'' brought to port the first (and one of the Sacramento largest loads on record) of bluefin. The catch con "At the present time (written }lay 22) we are nnl.Y sisted of some 70 tons, the major portion of which getting salmon anti that is not a vci·y hea\'y run," re Were sold to the Halfhill Packing Corporation at Long ports Azzie 1\Tcrecli th of the l\1eredith Fish Company, Beach, a small lot going to the fresh markets. (Cmztinucd all Pa,9c 57) 10 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES Fish Commission is Making salmon interests are seri FIGHT TO SAVE ously concerned with the outcoute of the "Glenn.. Colusa case," tvitlt tvhich lwngs in the balance the YOUNG SALMON obligation of California to force irrigati_ori com· HE LITTLE THAT REMAINS of California's they replied that panies and othe::S taking water from the streams Of T once rich salmon resource is being threatened with only carp and suck~ extermination by the joint agencies of irrigation com ers ever entered t.lw state to erect screens panies and hydro-electric projects. Frankly and curtly, their canals. To dis at their otvn ex pen.. •te to the \vhole fishery is faced with certain collapse unless prove this conten protect salnton f r o m all agencies rally to the support of the Fish Commission tion the Commission straying from. the rivers. in its fight to put a stop to the profligate and senseless placed trap-nets in destruction of young fish. the canals, placed The gravity of the situation has been recognized by \vatchmen there to guard and observe them, and so informed men in the industry for a considerable period, caught thousands of young salmon that were going but recently it has become of aggravated acuteness. down the ditches to certain death. Norman B. Scofield, head of the Bureau o£ Commercial Early in the summer, when the waters of the river Fisheries, has drawn up a digest of the data bearing on are in· flood stage, the main irrigation anal is kept this subject. If you are a salmon man, or are even in running full by mere gravity in-flow. Later, when the terested in fisheries generally, Scofield's array of facts head subsides, it is necessary to use pumps in order to is certain to set you to thinking. Only consider this: fill the ditches. The pumps in use arc described as 1. During the last 20 years so~;~, of the spawning monstrous affairs, some of thetn 9 feet in clittmeter. grounds have been cpt off from the salmon by the erec These tremendous machines kill and injure the fish tion of power dams or other impassable barriers. that are swallowed up and passed through them-of 2. Aronn(l1910 U.S. Government collecting stations the salmon fingerlings that were caught in the Fish on the head-waters of the Sacramento were able to gath Commission's trap-nets, 6S:J;; '\Vas either killed or er 100,000,000 salmon eggs a year; at present the best maimed. that they can do is about 5,000,000 eggs-a decline of Scofield says that it doesn't much matter \vhether 95%! the pumps htlrt them or not, since they arc ~~11 doomed 3. In addition to erecting impassable clams that shut to die any\vay. The herons and \Vater birds catch a out the fish from their ancient spawning beds, irriga good many of the ones that go on clown the ditches, tion and povver companies are killing thousands upon and what do not perish in this way ha'\7 e to die before thousands of fingerling salmon, the "seaward migrants" reaching the foot of the canal system because the water or young fish that are going clown stream to the sea. becomes hotter than that." For more than two vcat·s the Fish Commission has "Salmon cannot live in water above 80 degrees in been 'trying to stop thi~ loss. It has urged that screens temperature," says Scofield, "so we know that all of be installed to prevent the young salmon from being the fish entering the canals must die, for the \Vater taken into gravity-flow irrigation ditches and to hold becomes better than that." them safe from being chopped into bits by the spinning Captain H. B. Nidever of the Commission has re blades of hydraulic turbines. In this laudable endeavor marked upon the disproportionate value of the fingcr the Comm(ssion has met with fierce resistance from the lings being killed by the irrigation company. "It onght irrigation concerns and the power companies effected. to be pointed out that these fish have passed all o£ the Irrigation "districts" are described as "having been danger-stages of infancy," he says, "and that they really the worst, since they resent being subjected to control, represent the survivors of many thousands that orig teel that they should not be required to protect the fish inally were hatched. Almost every one of these 2- by installing screens at their own cost, and even argue and 3-inch salmon is destined to mature into 18- or 20- against having to maintain them.'' or 25-pound adult worth anywhere from 10 cents to All diplomatic and persuasive means having been 20 cents a pound to the fishermen. It is a staggering exhausted \Vithout result, the Fish Commission has waste, when you come to look at it from the economic had to take legal action against one of the \VOrst of standpoint.'' these salmon-destroyers-the Glcnn-Colus::t Irrigation The Fish Commission's fight to make the Glenn-Co District. This organization occupies a lar~e at-ea of lusa liTigation District install such screens in their in land in the vicinity of \iVillows, the assessed valuation take as will be effective in keeping out these migrati;:g of the entire project exceeding $5,000,000. It operates fry was carried into the Glenn County court at \Vtl an immense system of ditches, which derive \.Vater from lo~ws, and four clays of testimony take-n. Judge Ganz the Sacramento. At ceJ-tain seasons of the year the of Red Bluffs sat, the local magistrate not caring to 1nain canal of the company is declared to t~ike more pass upon a matter of such acute local consequence. than half of the volume of the steam. How is a fish to The District urged in defense of its negligence that know vvhich is the "river?" the cost of putting in a screen was prohibitive, naming For a long time the D'ish Comndssion has been trying $30,000 a.s the sum. This absurdity was rebutted by to get a large number of water-users to place protective the en~ineer for the Commission, \Vho testified that he screens in their ditches and power canals. ]\{any vol himself could build the screen for $11,600, stating furth untarily have done so, others have not. \\Then the er that the District could accomplish the work for con Glenn-Colusa people were approached in this particular siderably less because of having pilc-dri\'(•rs_. materials JUNE, 1930 ll and construction crews already on the ground. Judge has been made of an acceptable candidate the commit~ Ganz took the case under advisement; his decision will tee will sound a call for another gathering of the pack4 in a large way determine the future of salmon fishing ers, this second concurrence to take place at the Hotel in California. Del l\lonte. The expectation is that the committee will Thus far the entire contest has centered about the have made its selection of an able man for the secre~ salmon that are killed through the negligence of the taryship in season to announce the elate for the electoral irrigation concern. No one should suppose, however, esssion as of June 14 to 16. that none but salmon come to death in the ditches. "Thus far our studies have been confined to the Executives Attending destruction of the salmon fingerlings that descend 'I'he organization assembly, held at the Biltmore on towards the sea in the spring," says Scofield. "VVe June 6, is declared remarkable for· the almost complete estimate that 50,000 of these entered the canal between state coverage which its large attendance gave it. April 15 and July 15 of last year. This, of course, "Everybody is. here," exclaimed a packer, there takes no account of the fall run. I believe that a study hasn't been such a complete line-up of canners at a would reveal that the run is greater then, and that 100,- meeting since I can remember." 000 more are killed in the fall." The roster read as follows: The irrigation companies have been lobbying at the Frank E. Booth and Geo. M. Rothaug of the F. E. sessions of the legislature to try to get the screetls put Booth Co., Inc.; E. S. vVagenheim of the Carmel Can in at the expense of the taxpayers. It is told that they ning Co.; Sam Hornstein, president of the ·Coast Fish might very \Vell have succeeded in this during the last ing Company; Edward Davidson of the Del Mar Can legislative session had it not been fot: the ·watchfulness ning Co.; Jos. ]\f. J\'lardesich, president of the 'Franco and timely intervention of Bryce Florence. Florence Italian Packing Co.; Eel. Hoyt and Martin J. Bogclono is said to have touched off the powder-train that blew vich, sales manager and president, respectively, of the up their scheme when he announced to the legislature French Sardine Co., Inc.; Nick Kuglis, representing the that the commercial fishery operators of the state were General Fisheries Corporation; E. B. Gross, mvncr of keenly concerned in this matter, that they most certain the E. D. Gross Canning Co.; Ed David, representing ly wei'e deeply and fundamentally interested in the fate the K. Hovden Co.; Eugene Giacomino, representing of these young salmon, and that they would expect the Italian .Food Products Co., Inc.; Julius E. Linde whoever uses water from the streams and rivers of this of the-·Linch: Packing Corporation; Julian G. Burnette state to exercise such care as is imposed upon them by uf the :Monterey Canning Co.; Harry Irving of the Sea law to the end that our young salmon be not destroyed. Pride Packing Corp., Ltd.; \Vilbur F. \Voocl, president -G. R. C. . of the Southern California Fish Corp.; B. Houssels and I-1rank C. Van Camp nf the -..Van Camp Sea Food Co., STATE-ViiJDE ASSOCIATION Inc.; Alfred .V·-.,T. Eames, James l\/Iadison, Jr., and \\.T. (Contiuucd /rom Page 8) Tonkin of thc'·California ]?acking Corp.; R. Hopkins of intra se problems which must inevitably confront an Cohn-Hopkins, Inc.; Harry J. Halfhill of the ·Halfhill organization of the magnitude and consequence of the Packing Corp., Inc.; Paul H. Steele of the' \i\Testgate Sea present Association, will complete its survey of per Products Co.; \V. J. Turck oC'.I."urck & Nicholson; R. sonnel at the earliest possible date. \Vhen selection E. Ludlum, acting secretary. The Salmon Makes His Summer Debut WEST COAST VARIETIES FEED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ANNUALLY O FISHING PEOPLE, from Monterey, Calif., on Coho or Iviedium Red salmon; Red, Sockeye, or Blue T the south, to Alaska on the north, summer always back salmon; the Pink salmon and the SteClheacl trout. means salmon. It might mean different kinds of sal The greatest salmon-producing area is, of course, mon to different people, for there are six varieties of the the Alaskan coast, but in addition, British Columbia, salmon tribe caught on the \Vest Coast and eaten by the bays and rivers of \\Tashington and Oregon, North people all over the world, but it always signifies salmon. ern California and the Sacramento River are important Summer doesn't necessarily have this special signi salmon districts. ficance to the consumer, however, In importance as a food, salmon as, in some form or other, the fish admits first place to none. Aside n_tay be obtained anywhere at any Tf?CF lren~with presents tire sixth of a series of ,qhetclws of the principal from its great utility as a canned tune of the year. Salmon is in fact fresh murlwt fi.slws twailallle in Califor food, it is one of the most exten one of the 1;1ost versatile of fishes. nia. These short articles appear each sively distributed fish in fresh or lt may be purchased canned, fresh, month arul are tlesignetl to aiel the frozen fonn. Fresh and frozen frozen, smoked, kippered or salted. tratle in tlw movement of the tmrious fish. Therefore, it will be our purpose salmon are shipped from the \"\.Test And then, ton, some variety of the to treat of each twriely at ulumt the sea Coast to all parts of the United flsh in a fresh state may be secured .'iOll it bt!COUres important upon the mar States, the canned product goes at almost any time of -ihe year. lwt.-Etlitor. all over the \vorld and large quan During the winter, steelheacl are tities of frozen and cured fish go available, although a premium must be paid. 1l'hen from to Europe. June to November the great salmon runs are under Resourceful housewives have many diffcren t ways in way. The \Vest Coast salmons which a prospective which to prepare this fish for their tables and amotig fish eater may go into a store and buy are: King, Chi the most popular and generally used of these are frying, nook, or spring salmon; Chum or Keta salmon; Sih'er baking and boiling. 12 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES I I I CONTINUING "TRAVELS MARKETS in Tins to Foreign Lands," WCF presents lwretvitlr.. another of for Canned Goods tl1ese informative articles on ex j> port 1narl~ets, througll the coop eration of the Uniled States an CHILE Department of Commerce. By MILTON T. HOUGTON Assistant Commercial Attache ITH the exception o{ sardines, salmon and milk, the Chilean diet and the importation of California Sar W importation of canned goods into Chile is ex dines has been steadily increasing. During 1927 the tremely limited. Canned fruits and vegetables are pro import duty was raised to one peso gross kilo and im duced locally in sufficient quantities to supply the mar ports fell off considerably during 1928, however, during ket and this production is protected by high import the early part of 1929 sales bid fair to exceed any pre duties which effectually keep out any appreciable com vious year in this market hut due to several unfortunate petition. Add to this the fact that fresh fruits and veg incidents it looked as if this market might be entirely etables of different varieties are available throughout lost to California sardine:-;. the year in most parts of Chile, and it will readily be It must be noted that shipments to Chile are subjected seen that no appreciable gain can to rather severe conditions in tran be expected in the importation of sit, including extremes of tem these items, particularly as the sARDINES SHOULD CONTINUE perature and rough handling in Chilean Government is actively to find Cl&ilc as one of the best markets in lightering from the steamer. In encouraging the development of South America, says lJlr. Hougton, as local order that they may reach the these industries within t h e packing has proved unsuccessful and can market in first class condition, not compete, due to the lack of facilities country. for producing timl utilizing the meal aml therefore, it is imperatiYe that Because of the comparatively oil. But it is necessary that shipments ar they be packed to withstand these small importation of most canned rive in the best of condition. conditions. Frequently shipments goods items, the Chilean import have arrived in Chile with a classifications are rather broad; large percentage of swells and however, the following figures from the Chilean Sta upon opening the tins, in most cases, the fish \Ya~ tistical Annual, covering importations of canned goods found to be in good condition, which would indicate into Chile during the past three years will illustrate the that the cans had been packed with an insufficient ·relative importance of the items. The figures for 1929 vacuum. It will be appreciated that irrespective of the are preliminary and subject to revision: quality of the contents, if the can of fish swells it is PRESERVED SARDINES unsalable, and in this market under present conditions 1929 Kilos Value in Pesos if one of the municipal inspectors finds a lot of sardines Total ...... 1,311,700 2,651,800 either in the retail store or in the warehouse with a por 1928 tion of the lot in what he considers a condition render Total ...... 1,205,675 2,059,047 ing them unfit for human consumption, and naturally United States ...... 824,891 679,095 Spain ...... 452,250 1,082,171 they are largely guided by the physical appearance of 1927 the cans, the entire lot is liable to be confiscated. Total ...... 1,495,890 2,377,192 Sardines are imported by practically all of the large United States ...... 1,040,898 1,217,764 general importing firms and it is customary to arrange Spain ...... 290,770 773,273 payment in the United States. Shipments are immedia PRESERVED SALMON 1929 tely placed in warehouse and repacked to eliminate Total ...... 1,268,900 2,348,700 swells, and leaky tins. They are then distributed in 1928 small lots to the retailers who must he extremely care Total ...... 1,000,331 1,573,389 Ui1ited States ...... 583,623 947,800 ful c:t all times to keep their stocks free from !)ad ap Canada ...... 360,059 494,820 peanng cans. 1927 That it is possible to place California sardines on this Total ...... 1,180.551 1,761,929 market in perfect condition has been demonstrated by United States ...... , , , , ...... , , , 979,623 1,427,0i9 Canada ...... 1i0,813 222,36.1 at least one packer who sent a shipment of one hundred SHELL FISH cases specially packed with a maxim't1m vacuum and tns '\vhich arrived in perfect condition without the loss of a Total ...... 49,637 277,0G9 single can of sardines. Aside from the fayorable effect United States ...... 5,386 29,301 which such a shipment has on the market it would seem Spain ...... 16,796 91,35.1 United Kingdom. , .. , .. , , , , . , , , , , . , , .. 5,576 30,144 that the extra effort expended in preparing it would be Italy ...... 4,641 29,556 more than repaid by the freedom from losses by claim::; 1927 on the part of the importer. 1~otal ...... , ...... 59,00R 317,250 American sardines have for years been well and United Stales ...... 4,895 23,842 Spain ...... 18,957 97,625 favorably known in the Chilean market and although lJnited Kingdom ...... , .... , .. , . , , . 6,964 29,21fi confidence has been some1vhat shaken during the past Italy ...... 9,706 54,565 year, it is only necessary that future shipments arTh·e Sardines in good condition in order to reestablish confidence and Because of their low cost and hig·h food value, sar Chile will continue to furnish one of the best markets dines have for many years been an important article in in South America for this product. I JUNE, 1930 13 \ SuccEss OF WEST coAsT canned fish in the markets of the world is largely attributable to progressive exporting and im· I porting finns, tlte connecting are GOOD linT's between pacJ,ers and for Says IJ. S. Commerce Representative eign marts. I Attempts at packing sardines in Chile have been un and purchase of refrigeration cars will tend to increase ' successful, although there is at present a small plant the consumption of all kinds of fresh fish. operating at Taicahuano producing a product similar to + California sardines except that the fish are somewhat N THIS rapidly-growing business of world distribu smaller. From the outward appearance of the tin and I tion of \Al est Coast canned fish, the exporter and label they appear exactly like the California product importer share with the packer responsibility for the packed in tomato sauce. Due to the lack of facilities success or failure of the products they handle and pack. for producing and utilizing the meal and oil it is very It is the duty of the packer to make sure that his raw I doubtful if they can compete with the imported article material is in the best of condition and that his packag which retails here at from 1.70 to 1.90 pesos per can. ing processes will keep it in that state until it reaches Four species of sardines are found in great ~~bu~Hlance the consumer. To do that most effectively he must con off the Chilean Coast. The Clupea maculate IS hke the sult \vith the exporter regarding the hundreds of fac Atlantic herring being about twelve inches long and is tors to be met \vith in exploiting a foreign market. The :found from Valparaiso south. The Clupea sagax is packer must learn about such physical things as geo practically the same as the California sardin_e and i_s graphical elevations, and about such mental things as found from Valparaiso north. The Lycengrauhs grossi food prejudices of the people upon whose tables he dens and Engrattlis ringens are both about six inches hopes to put his sea food. long and are found all up and clown the coast. The exporter and importer to play their parts effec Salmon: Despite the relatinly high import duty of tively, and to make their business worthwhile, it is gen one peso per gross kilo, <;hil~ is importing l~rge quanti erally conceded, must inform themselves upon all of ties of canned salmon which IS largely supplied from the the merits of the merchandise. They must know as United States. The principal demand is for the low much as possible about how the fish is caught and grades of chum salmon which are imported by the packed. large general importing firms in the same manner as Believing that it can be of assistance in this particu sardines. lar, VVCF offers its services to exporters, importers and Previous to the increase in import duties in 1927, the trade in general, pointing out that the FFV Ency Chile had been our best South American customer for clopedia pages appearing in The \i\T est Coast Fisheri~s canned salmon, which position was regained in 1929 and each month, compile data and general information, ch present indicatio!ls are that importati.ons wi!l increase rectly from the heart of the industry, so designed as considerably dunng the present year If suffictent quan to afford this background of the business so vital to the tities of Ch~1111 salmon are aYailable. exporter. -A species of salmon is found in certain rivers of The VVest Coast Fisheries, furthermore, as a general southern Chile and fair quantities are prepared by smok policy, strives always to publish informative a:ticles ing. A canning factory was opened at Talcahuru~o sev which ·will aid the movement of products of the mdus eral years ago, but the product was poor and It was trv the magazine represents. In \VCF the exporter or reported thai they were packing other fish and labeling inlporter will read of the latest methods of making it salmon, so that operations have been suspended pend catches, of refrigeration afloat and ashore ("which is be ing investigation by the Chilean government. The ing perfected by the industry to guarantee quality Chilean Department of Fisheries is very much inter food), of new and speedy methods of handling, and of ested in encouraging the canning of fish and recently modern and ultra-sanitary processes of packing. one of the ofllcials of that department spent some time There is another hand which \VCF can and will lend in the United States studying conditions there, and has the good cause at every opportunity. Dealers in brought to Chile some of the more important species for canned food for foreign shipment, because of the very propagation purposes. nature of their business, often are at a great distance Canned shell fish are imported in very limited quan from the source of the merchandise they buy and sell. tities principally from Spa~n and the United Kingd~m. The \Nest Coast Fisheries will gladly put reliable ex It is thought that sales wluch are largely to the foreign porters and importers in touch with leading packers of populatio;l and the commissaries of. the I.nining _c_o~n sardines, salmon or mackerel. panies will tend to decrease as refngeratmg facilities are provided for handling the local varieties of shell fish which are found in abundance. PROHIBITIVE DUTY Very little has been done to-wards preservi~1g sl~ell E'xporlers and Pachers are concerned aver the pro fish in Chile although Langosta or lobster IS bemg posNl u>ciprocal French duty which would. raise the tariiJ packed in fair quantities. A wide variety of fresh shell from 115 francs to 2SO francs per 10() 1;:,/o[,rrams. Tlus rlrll)' is part o/ a new tariff bill bdng consitlen;d tlds fish are available although their use has been limited by month by the l?rench Parliament mul affects partlCu/tirly the lack of refrigeration facilities for handling them. Surclincs und Sulmons. Projected plans for the erection of cold storage plant::; 14 TRE WEST COAST FISHERIES I u Adventurer" Hits Submerged· Rock l CAPTAIN AUGUST FELAN DO DECLARES HE WILL NOT CRUISE THE TROPICS AGAIN UNTIL INSTALLING WIRELESS ABOARD By GEO. ROGER CHUTE "W E THOUGHT THAT we all were lost! We hit the rock full speed aheacl-""'e came down on it three separate times-we could hear the crunching of the wood-the vessel shivered all over-irom a speed of 10 knots we were slowed down to almost a standstill -I tell you it 'vas a close call, and we're not going clown there again without wireless aboard !' 1 So says Bob Fclando, fisherman aboard the 120-foot ~ How the 150-poundcrs are caught. Sometimes. four men nnd four poles are Home again, after a month in the tropics. In drydock it was found that th~ required to get the largest of the tuna aboard. Occasionally five men ship had suffered but little damage in its coll'ision with the hidden handle three poles. Gniapago-!1 rock. }VNE, 1930 15 I Halibut Captains Hook Albacore Off Oregon "LONG FIN" SPECIES IS IDENTIFIED BY EXPERIENCED CALIFORNIA FISH MAN By CARL B. TENDICK Agent, U. S. Bureau of Fisheries HE DISAPPEARANCE of albacore from South the Blue Funnel ships, while en route from Japan to T ern California waters has interested the writer as Puget Sound ports had reported tuna off the coast of greatly as though he were the owner of idle jig-boats, Vancouver Island. Captain Longair, acting as chief tied up waiting for fish. During the past several years mate, who was on the bridge at the time the fish were he has taken occasion to follmv up and investigate seen, was interviewed the following day, when the ves· recurring reports that have been circulated among the sel came into Seattle. This officer, a world navigator men of the trade to the effect that this species was of much experience, kno-..vs the tunas of the IVIediterra being seen and actually caught north of California. The nean, Japan and California. He always had regarded \Vest Coast Fisheries and the California Fish and Game them as a tropicl species, which is explanation for the T\iagazinc have published accounts of some of these fact that he was so impressed and surprised at seeing periodic appearances. The interest that these articles them in such unaccustomed latitudes that he noted aroused in the frsh trade-as evidenced by inquiries that the occurrence in the ship's log. 1 boattnen have made into the ' V\'' e saw them first about matter-supports the writer's 7:45a.m. on June fourth," stated belief that a summary of the evi wlERE ARE THE ALBACORE? the navigator. "We \vere about dence would be welcomed by Reports have been current for a year or two 40 miles off Vancouver Island that the Albucore have been seen und caught the jig-men and cannery opera in North Pacific wuters. Now, Mr. Tendich when a group of four or five tors who have waited so long for stales that it is common hn01vletlge nround tuna rose to the top of the water the reappearance of the "truant Seattle that halibut men have at different and played along in front of our schools." times tahen albacore while opt!rating off the bows for quite some time." coast of Oregon, nltlwugh such is Ttear·sny evi~ Around Seattle it is common dence. knowledge that local halibut Schools Seen men have at different times Longair tells that other occa taken albacore w bile operating off the coast of Oregon. sional schoOls showed, the men on the bridge remark This hearsay evidence is generally unusably indefinite. ing upon the fact and commenting upon the rarity of Obscure in origin, almost anonymous, difficulty has such a happening. \Vhen the vessel had approached to been experienced in locating the authors and in finding within about 16 miles from land-being at that time anyone who could give first-hand testimony in the almost due west from Cape Beale Light-the tuna particular. · sounded and were not seen ag-ain. That was at about 9:25 o'clock in the morning. The captain says that he Unfamiliar With Tuna believes the fish to haYe been albacore, judging only by Northern boatmen are not familiar with the various their general appearance and behavior, although to him species of the big Scombroid fishes; to them they all are they seemed larger than the specimens of albacore that 11 tuna." Before proceeding upon· the assumption that ·he had caught in the l\Tediterranean. the fish about which they talked were actually the true Approximately 40 days after this occurrence the first "Long Fin" or albacore, it was necessary to identify albacore of the season were taken in California. \iVas the specimens that had been landed. To do so -..vas there connection between the two happenings? difficult. Something in this direction was accomplished, Near the close of June another report was published however, when a former Californian was discovered in in a Seattle newspaper: tuna had again been seen off the person ·of the plant foreman of a wholesale fish Vancouver Island. The writer was absent from Seattle house in Seattle. This man declared that beyond any at the time, so obtained no details in the matter. It was question the "tuna" that had been caught by the halibut noted, however, that about 40 clays afterward, albacore 1ong-liners really were albacore, the white-fleshed deli became more nlentiful in Southern California for a short cacy of the Southland'. This he vouched for as a cer period. ' tainty, declaring that in the fall of 1928 he had per Other interesting data came from the Oregon coast. sonally seen and handled a number of the fish as thev \Vholcsale dealers at Newport gave out the information were being discharged at his company's wharf. · last fall that the skipper of a tugboat had reported On June 10, 1929, Henry Foss (of the Foss Launch passing- through schools of tuna continuously on a trip and Tug Company, Tacoma, Washington), telephoned from Astoria to Yaquina Bay about the middle of to the writer that the British steamer "Ixion," one of (Continued OTt Page 17) 16 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES Standardizing the Pack Winning the Game NE of the greatest benefits which we can see PART II in the proposal to bind all fish packers in Califor 0 01tlPAH.ED wit!1 fish. g~soli~1e is~ coihmoclity dif nia into a common association is the opportunity there C ficult to adverttse, be tt Rtchfield or any other by opened for the canners to make certain that only brand. It lacks the primary requisite for primitive ap first quality goods are put out in as far as is possible peal-it recommends itself to none 'of the human senses. and that seconds, when they do appear, are designated We don't eat it or drink it; it does not smell well, does as such. not gratify the visual sense, and offers no entertainment Standardization is the order of the day. It must not for the ear. Believe it or not, there is a deep basic only be accepted but courted with fervor .if any industry principle here, for it is far easier to induce Farm'er is to thrive. Anyone buying a Ford automobile, whether Hoskins to invest in a new plug of "Brown's Mule'' in Detroit, Mich., or 'I'imbuctu, knows to the last detail which he does not need at all, than to persuade him to what he is getting. The purchaser of a can of sardines bny a sack of rolled barley for the benefit of slat-ribbed is entitled to the sante knowledge. Old Dobbin. 'l'he "chawing" is his to enjoy personally; whether or not he actually requires it as an essentin.l trhc pack of first-class, high quality sardines to sustaining life is not a consideration. The barley is laudably high each season, but there is, of course (as he docs not enjoy personally, but only vicariously, and in every industry) a small percentage of second-grade in consequence it lacks appeal irrespective of however goods which find their way into the market every year. much the famished rosinante may require feed. '"rhat That fact is to be accepted. Seconds may not be done Richfield should have succeeded in popularizing its away with easily, and they need not be, for they have commodity bespeaks the ability of that concern to sur their own market. 'l'he danger lies in allowing seconds mount inherent difficulties, for it has achieved famously to threaten a first quality market. without natural helps. The example is a valuable one. Sardine packers will do well to heed the example of Now, then, in the instance of the fishing interests, vegetable shippers. Their products fall automatically the problem of finding a popular angle is simple of solu into very definite classifications based upon qna1ity. tion. Fish has the inestimable advantage of possessing The result is that there is no confusion in the minds of primary appeal to that most basic of human appetites buyers, and confidence stimulates trading. hunger; Furthermore, not a thing can be said against it. It is one food which receives the hearty endorsement Conscientious packers, therefore, see in the expanded of every sort of physician, dietician, physical cultur1st, association a means of getting together and classifying religionist and quack practitioner. Its gala..-xy of sup their goods to the end that all first-quality packs will port include the following: be labeled as such and that all seconds will be plainly 1. It is a high-nitrogen article, rich in protein. espe designated to the end that the business will be stabil cially suited to building hard muscle. ized and popularized with trade . .rAs it now is ,we don't 2. It has been recognized as a nerve nourisher for know what a man is quoting, \vbether standard, sec so long that fish as a brain builder has come to be a onds. fancy or \Vhat," states K. Hovden, head of the traditional platitude. I(. Hovden Company of l'vTonterey, Calif., in discussing 3. lt contains large amounts of rare and necessary the question. chemical elements such as iodine, these contributing "If the packers would realize this," Ivir. Hovden says, to the maintenance of health and serving as curative i "and join together and eliminate this feature, we believe agencies in cases of glandular abnormalities. that the sardine industry will take on a new life and 4. It is included in diets as an element not inchtcive those \vho ·want to pack .Seconds and sell them at a ruin to the accumulation of fatty tissue. ous price; will not find much encouragement from the 5. It is more easlly digested than meat, and espe cially amenable to the requirements of non-athletic city buyer \Vhen he knows what he is going to get." folk. 1'vlr. Hovden expresses a vital thought. In unity 6. Its economic aspects arc satisfactory, fish being there is not only strength, but, in this instance, quality no more costly than other animal foods. It is easily as well. Standard quality. The California sardine is and quickly prepared, has no peer for acceptability on the cheapest-priced food within the reach of man (con any occasion, and is clelectable throughout a wide range sidering its food value), and there is no good reason of large and small species. 7. Antedating the time of written history, fish has in the. world why there should ever be a limitation to occupied an honored place in connection with ritual its market; but it must constantly be kept in mind, that in practically all creeds, being much employed on cer one man cannot do everything-that one or two packers tain fast days and during periods of religious observ cannot carry on the work of all. To the end of im ance. Adherents to Catholocism and to Jcwry st1ll con proved business conditions, the industry must rally 100 timte certain of these orthodox practices, and to a greater or less extent all Christian peoples concur in per cent around the standard of better and better qual them. ity. 8. Fi:-.h is the perfect food for summer, and most JUNE, 1930 17 emphatically to be urged, especially when and where temperatures are high. Throughout the tropical and PLENARY POWER INITIATIVE sub-tropical world it should be the standard article of The plenary power initiutive, upon which WCF has ex diet. There can be no question about its merits en pressed its viervs fully ever since last fall when it foresaw titling it to this place. That it has not as yet attained that the attempt would be matle to give :::aristic porvertJ to the California Fish and Game Commission, has. been that exclusive position is attributable to other causes titletl /Jy the nltorney general ami will be in circnlation than a want of suitable endowments. shortly, it is understood. The title reads ·Us follows: As against this array of virtues not one word dele "FISH AND GAME. lnitialive. Amemls Constiwtion, terious to fish as food can be said. \Vith reputation and Article IV section 251h, and adds thereto three sections. Crtmtes Fish and Game Commission of ji~1C members ap· recognition already won, with the additional advantage pointetl by Governor; empowers commission to establish of making a direct sensory appeal to taste and appe fish and game tli.dricts, determine what animals, birds tite-both compelling incentives-and ·with all other rzrul fish, are within it.~ juri.o;tliction, regulate by ordinance things faYorable, it seems incredible that fish is not the approved by Governor the taking, snle or possession thereof, and issue license.<; therefor, fix seasons and lim~ most popular of foods, consumed by everyone in max its within maximums prescribed by legislature., establish imum quantity as the fundamental staple. refuges, public shooting grounds and fishing waters, con Imagine the Richfield organization in the fish busi rluct i11vestigations of persons, ami their bool~s, within its jurisdiction; prescribes penalties; declures provisions ness. Possessing the wit and cleverness to popularize effective }amwry 15, 1931." so drab a thing as a tankful of gasoline, what would they not do \Vere they to mobilize their energies for the purpose of merchandising the finest dietary contri bution that Nature has given to the collective larder HALIBUTTERS CATCH ALBACORE of creation? (CollfilltJcd from Page 15) Fish, fortunate in a heritage of inherent qualities, October. A few days previous to this, Capt. Ross of vaunting a long- list of known values and not one de the halibut vessel "Azalea" saw a large body of tuna tracting feature, invested with special adapta'bilities, while cruising off the coast approximately W$W of enjoying exclusive favor during certain periods, and, Alsea Bay, just beyond the hundred fathom line. Capt. finally surrounded with the immaculate cleanness and Ross tried to capture some, but being unfamiliar with the telling glamor of the sea, could, with proper in California albacore methods, was not successful. stigation, become the vogue of the tables of the land. At Reedsport, Oregon, a fisherman, who between Publicity and advertising-these two are the mighty 1900 and 1905 sailed with the San Francisco cod fleet, jinns that would work the miracle. How might they tells the story that in those early clays, while going to do it? "Why, probably in much the same way that they Bering Sea in the spring and returning in the fail, as "put over" the gasoline campaign. T'ake advantage of many albacore were caught as the crews desired to eat. every opportunity to put the product before the eyes The fish were taken by the windjammer men while of the public. I-Iere our commodity has another decided passing the coasts of Oregon ::mel \Vashington, often at advantage, for its sale would not be restricted to that some distance to Sl"~a. The method of capture was to class of folk owning automobiles or motor boats. The troll with a sturgeon hook imbedded in a three-pound opportunities are innumerable-just picture Richfield's sinker. A piece of reel flannel ordinarilY was used peppy gang on this assignment! But, specifically: for bait. 1. At fairs, functions and football games vaunt the Capt. N. 0. Ulvang of the Seattle halibut vessel impeccable virtues of "Fish-For-Food." "Hoover" recently gave an interesting account of see 2. Extoll fish virtues on banners and balloons. ing and catching albacore north of Coos Bay. For the 3. Exhibit at the H.osc Bowl great, gleaming, gas past four years Capt. Ulvang has fished there during inflated or wind-filled fish kites of brilliant and spec the fall months. Each season he has seen schools of tacular shapes and colorings, b~toying them aloft at albacore. He states that in 1929 more and larger tached to the wavering lines of captive gas bags. Com schools were in evidence than in other years. On one pel! the 100,000 revelers to take notice in a body and astonish them with a display of originality, humor, re trip during the first half of October he caught one alba sourcefulness, good nature, progressiveness and imag core and saw several schools close by, but because of ination. Entertain them, intrigue them, astound them. high waves and falling rain could not see them very far It is I\fr. Small's belief, in this connection, that the industry has come to the turning point and is now headed in the right direction. "VV e are overcoming this clifficulty," he states. "\Vide-awake merchandising concerns, assisted by federal research and education, are becoming more and more interested in the distrib LARE MILLER SMALL, one of the youngest ution of fish." executives connected with a large fish-producing Southern California is particularly fortunate in its C compan:r on the \Vest Coast, is manager of the fish resources, according to 1\{r. Small, xvho declares Van Camp Organlzations at San Pedro, Calif. "Mr. that its waters have a wider variety of excellent table Small is a native of California and has been in the fish fish than any other area with which he is familiar. business all his life, inheriting the inClination and the "It is possible for the consumer," he says, "to serve a aptitude-from his father, F. D~ Small, also prominently different variety of fish on his table eVery day for a connected with the fish industry. month. He can start on the first of the month by eat Clare Small, the son, although born in California, has ing the tiny sardine, and finish up on the last day of the lived in Oregon, \\Tashington, British Columbia and month -with a steak off the side of a huge swordfish." Alaska, always making it a point to inquire into the In addition to the long l-ist of market offerings of I fish business, hence he is recognized as one of the best fish in the pound, l\{r. Small points out that the number informed men on the Coast re- of Yarieties procurable in fillet garding Pacific fisheries. form is growing rapidly. l-Ie secured his education at the Filleting began with one or University of California at Berke- two varieties, hut now has grown ley, graduating from the College so that almost any fish can be of Commerce, and then began his secured in this form, which he career in the fish business. From believes will stimulate its con 1917 to 1922 J\lr. Small operated sumption. the Small & Uric salmon cannery Ivlr. Small is not only interest at Fort Bragg, Calif. He also "\Vas ed in fishing as a vocation, but is identified with the Reel Salmon an enthusiastic angler for trout Canning Company in Alaska for and indulges in this sport at ev two years, and went to San Pedro. ery opportunity. Trout fishing Calif., for the first time in 1925 and duck hunting, in fact, are his to re-establish the California State two major sp,orts. Fish Exchange, which had been dormant in the southern part of the state for several years. 1\{r. SHRIMP SEASON UNDER WAY Small established a new office for There are about 1,000 trawlers the Fish Exchange, got its affairs CLARE M. SMALL and freight boats engaged in the into smoothly-running order and catching of shrimp in the waters then, the next year, 1926, trans- surrounding the ..;;.tate uf Louis·· ferred his energy to the Van Camp Organizations, of iana, acconling to report by S. Dallas of the Arcadian which he is manager. Seafood Company. During the past year, 422,815 cases l\iir. Small has many definite, constructiYe and pro of processed shrimp were produced in the United States, gressive opinions about the business in which he has' in addition to 909,949 cases of canned shrimp. 'The grown up. He says: "I think that the chief drawback only state that comes anywhere near Louisiana in the of the fish business up to the present time has been the production of shrimp is l\{ississippi, which canned 140,- lack of proper education.. distributing and merchandis 307 cases in 1929. 'rhe bulk of the shrimp is shipped ing channels. V'~le must advertise to the consumer, ed by express, but a few carload shipments have been made ucate him to the many healthful and appetizing qual this season and more are expected. Considerable shrimp ities of fish, and assure him of ample supply and ex is being processed on the V/est Coast for shipment ' cellent quality of sea food {or his table." to Japan. ' IS 0 CANNED FOODS BROKERS Specializing t.n• Canned Fish 112 Market Street San Francisco, Calif. TELEPHONE DA YEN PORT 5626 C. ]. HEN DR Y C 0 • AD V. SEC • , J UN E, W. C. F. 1 9 3 0 19 fC. Jl. uHermosa/' First of the Big Tuna Ships-May Change Hands W. M. MAGGIO COMPLETES HIS MISSION -OTHER DUTIES ABSORB HIS TIME .HE :'Hermosa" is for sale or charter. \\Tilliam J. inAuence she had on the boat-designing that took place T l'viaggio, manager of the C. J. Henry Company, and during 1929 and the present year. New boats adopted one of the most prominent men connected with the Cali the style and all large buats were built with a raised fornia fishing industry, who has operated the big tuna for-ward deck to house the crew. vessel for a year at a good profit, is now ready to relin After first-class equipment was inst~lled throughout, quish her, stating that he has achieved his purpose, that the "Hermosa" shoved off from San Pedro, Calif., one of pioneering southern tuna grounds, and as his other spring day in 1929, bound for the- far south. She re ~interests engage all of turned on April 13, his time, he is willing the discoverer of new to dispose of the ship. tuna sources off the A famous figure in Central American California tuna- fish coast. On the trip ing circles is the the vessel dsited both "I-Iermosa." She has the Cocos Islands anU many distinctions, de the Galapagos group, spite her short service · blazing the trail that in the fishery. To be has been followed by gin with, the "Her many boats since that mos.a" discovered the time. South Sea tuna grounds now visited The First Big --·"by so many vessels. Tuntl Ship This was about a year Another distinction ago; in the spring oi of the "I-Iermosa" is 1929, to be exact. that she became the Mr. Maggio, having first big tuna fishing THE "HERMOSA" his plan well in mind, boat and she is still purchased the vessel one of the largest and from the VViltnington Transportation Company, which sturdiest. The vessel was built by \\-1illiam 1\'Iuller at shortly before had retired her from the Santa Catalina \i\iiJmington, Calif., and her present power and equip island run where she had served several years as a pas ment is of the best. She is 150 feet in length overall, senger ship. The greatly increased patronage of the with a beam of 28 feet. Her hold will carry 175 tons of island demanded -larger vessels and the "Hermosa" was refrigerated fish. The refrigerating plant consists of put out of the way to make room for these ships. She two 7-ton ice machines. was dismantled and her superstructure subsequently The main po-wer of the ship is supplied by a 520-h.p. became the nucleus of a Southern California road-side Fairbanks-n.-iorse diesel engine, to which there is added cafe. The hull was purchased by n.lr. I\laggio and out a 45- h.p. Fairbanks-1\-'lorse diesel auxiliary. of it a great fishing ship built. The "Hermosa" has a cruising radius of approxi mately 10,000 miles, according to I\{r. I\-iaggio, and is 7'he~: First "Billet Heacl" not at all inconvenienced by staying out two months on She became the first billet-headed tuna ship of the a trip. As the vessel was remodeled as a fishing boat California fleet, which is a significant fact in view of the in 1929, she is in the best of condition. 20 c. J. HENDRY CO., AD'V. SEC. A TIP FROM THE TRAWLER I Fish~catching fabrics of all sorts are l subjected to the worst abrasive action of any textiles known, yet the experience uf some sorts of nets is so much more .trying than that of others as to set them almost entirely apart from their kin. For examp}P, the easy life of a peicc of gilling g-ear i snot to be compared ·with the rude existence of a drag-net or bottom trawl. These latter arc hauled over sand, gravel, rocks and snags and hu~ope nto all sorts of ruinous accidents. Hardly a lift is made wi1hout the discovery of wrcnts in the gear, and sometimes these holes are so fearfd as to make it seem that hardly any of the net i slcft. \\That do the trawltnen do about it? \Vhy, with the patience that is almost Orient WOOLSEY'S Fishermen Everywhere : WoOLSEY has kept faith with the fisher- men since 1853 and has never produced USE i better Paint than. NOW• RITCHIE OOLSEY'S COPPER "BlEST" Paint, the WWorld's Standard for Wooden Bottoms. COMPASSES It contains more copper than any other paint on the market. COPPER OLEATE Fish Net Preservative. Strongest on the market. Used hy those who !mow True Value. WooLSEY'S TUNGSPAR VARNISH will Not Turn White, Crack or Blister. Supplied by C. Hendry Co. Distributed l1y all the J. leacling Ship Clwrullers·. C. A.Woolsey Paint & Color Co. E.S. RITCHIE &SONS Nautical Instruments JERSEY CITY, N. J. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. BROOKLINE ~lASS. 22 c. J. H E N D R Y C 0 ., A D V • S E C • THE SIDPMATE NEW ELECTRIC CONVENIENCE Shipmate ranges, which are rec Electrical machinery rapidly is replac ognized th? country over as the leading ing old-style mechanical appliances aboard vessel ranges, have for many years been VVest Coast fishing craft. The inclusion known on the Pacific Coast. of 110-Volt generating equipment on all Formerly their use was limited to of the r110dern ve&scls has rendered feas burning coal, wood or other solid fuels; able the citing of standard electrical but it has recently been greatly increased machinery, such as is used ashore, in the by the introduction of gas burning Ship specifications for big tuna cruisers ai1d males. The use of gas as· a fuel is high-sea~· purse-seiners. spreading· rapidly. Of course, the coal One oi the latest devices that has been burning ranges are still extensively used made available to the fleets is an elec and probably always _will be, and the gas trically-operated toilet, of the manufacture ranges will be in a great measure addi of the A. B. Sands & Son Company, whn tional, as both kinds .have proven their distribute through the a-gency of the C. right to first place in their class. J. Hendry chandlery. The fact that Ship Other It is pliable and elastic Kuhls' Products under the most severe Elastic Seam Composition \Let the Sun Shine ' No. 2 provides perfect, conditions. Even after positive protection to tho your boat has been laid I and the Wind Howl + bull. Elastic flat yacht white; e1astic gloss yacht up all Winter, you will white and trowel cement and the Rain come down in sheets - complete season-l on li find her decks as good protection is assured_ as new if Kuhls' has they will have no ill effect on decks fitted with Elastic Composition No_ 3 for laying canvas on decks been used. In five col hou:.ing and hatches. Also ors, white, gray, black, for canvasing and repair~ KUIILS" ing canoes. yellow and mahogany. H. B. FRED KUHLS Sole Manufacturer 65th Street and 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Established 1889 All Marine SupPly Dealers carry Kuhls' Producta JUNE, W. C. F. 1930 23 The Patterson Sargent Co. Ederer Netting MANUFACTURERS MARINE PAINTS, VARNISHES, for All Kinds of Fishing SPECIALTIES, COPPER PAINT, RED, BROWN, GREEN, Products the Trade Hcwe Learned to Respect Our California Distributor Distributed by C. J. HENDRY CO. C. J. HENDRY CO. carries in stock purse seine, round haul San Francisco--San Pedro-San Diego and gill nets, for Tuna, Barracuda, Mackerel and Sardine seining. NOW YOU CAN FORECAST YOUR OWN WEATHER Ederer Netting Is Cheapest With this Accurate Because It Is Best Baronzeter Wl1y rlsk your profits your boats--and your men when for ll few dollnrs. more you can have the rnrn;t ac curate weather forecn.sting R. J. EDERER CO. instruments mnde-the "Pau lin" \Venther Bureau Barom eter. You can't afford to Main Office and Factory guess wrong about weather. Inspect Pnulin Bnrornetern 54.0.54.8 ORLEANS STREET at our 11torc. C. J. HENDRY CO., CIDCAGO, ILLINOIS Ill S. Front St. San Pedro, Calif. -tOWERs . ~~~~ ~ T ~:::;~ _I_ ough ...... and you want 'em Tough FOR FISHERMEN Extra Superior 1\lanila Rope, unexcelled in The sturdy dependability of strength and flexibility, is now available in two newly treated methods. TOWER'S FISH BRA1VD BLACK LINE, steam tarred in the yarn. GREEN LINE, CopJICI' oleatcd in the yarn FISHERMEN'S S U l T S preventing marine and vegetable growths from fouling the line. . makes them favorites 'with fishermen Of course, Extra Superior Manila Bolt Rope everywhere. Built large and roomy; ex and Whale Line nrc still lenders in their field. tra heavy; reinforced where strain and Be sure your rope is Extra Superior Manila wear come. Special oiling makes them for efficient service. rugged and insures long life. Insist on TOWER"S FISH BRAND trade marked Suits and get the genuine. Ask to see the special pants for Tuna fisher- men. Aprons and Hats too. For further in· formation write C. J. Hendry Company San Francisco, California. SAN PEDRO, CAL. 24 C. J. HENDRY CO. ADV. SEC LONG LIFE FOR DECKS WATERPROOF CLOTIDNG PAINT MILLS INSTALLED \Vhether it is raining or not makes no Decks and their preservation have difference, the fish handler on boat and The Standard Products Company of always been a problem. All through cannery floor must wear waterproof cloth Los Angeles, a corporation that has been the ages ways and means of keeping the ing. It is a vital part of his equipment developed into a fine big institqtion on deck trim and leakproof have been de and A. J, Tower waterproof clothing has the basis of newly-discovered principles in vised. In 1840 the late Alfred Jeffery, the manufacture of metallic paints, has 4 long played an important part in the after patient' scientific research, devel \iVcst Coast fishing industry. just received and installed three big oped a formula which he named "Marine Stowing tuna below, unloading it on "mills" in their factory on Sixtieth Glue" with a conviCtion that it would the cannery dock or handling it in the Street. One of these mills is a burr solve this deci, problen1. He first offered cannei'y before it goes to the cookers, stone grinder to be used in pulverizing his formula to the British government are important operations in which A. J, to the fineness of wind-carried dust the and \vas advised to send it to the record To-wer waterproof clothing do their duty, pure copper that they mix into their pat office and protect it by patient rights. throughout the fishing industry, accord ented metallic compositTt>ns. A second lvlany experiments and tests were made ing to the C. J, Hendry Company n1ill is for the grinding of ingredients by order of the· government to test the that go to make up their special marine enamel-an article that has not as yet quality of Jeffery's marine glue. A co~n A STORM COMING? mittec of master shipwrights convened in been announced or advertised to the pub Since California fishing boat skippers lic. The third mill will be devoted to 1842 and reported unanimously that the have been guiding their big tuna ships marine glue was vastly superior to the the business of creating the brilliant into the more-or-less unchartered South emerald-green anti-fouling bottom paint pitch formerly used for deck seams as Seas, there has been talk of strange well as for other purposes. Only after that is the pride of its discoverers and we(lther, totally unlike that off Califor makers. five years struggle against prejudices did nia and Mexico, where most o[ the tuna Mr. Jeffery succeed in convincing the used to be available-talk of ominous The Standard Products Company is shipping industry of the superiority of calms. and sudden, dangerous storms that now running a large number of pra-cti his glue over pitch. Today, designers, have made the hook-and-line boats shake cal tests on the durability of their three shipbuilders and owners unanimously and shiver. or four related products. If these prove concede the superiority of Jeffery's ma And the weather is so treacherous in to be as remarkable as the manufacturer rine glue, which is placed on the market the tropics, say the skippers. One can't insists will be -the case, the WCF by L. .W. Ferdinand & Company. tell ·with the naked eye what is going- to will have further announcements to make happen, hence the best barometers have in this p<~.rticular, it being the settled been called into play to aid the captains. policy of the journal to bring to the fore "ALBACORE" REPAINTS One need not be a scientist or a weath whatever improvements may be found Capt. \\!alter Engelke has had a busy er prophet to read the Paulin barometer whereby the fishing industry, or any por time of it these last few weeks, for ·what and to anticipate fair weather or .storm. tion of it, can be helped or benefited. with rcrru\ar patrol d11ties, going to sea on fish-egg-hunting- o:xpeditions, and as ROPE FOR FISHING sisting in getting his new command, the \Vith larger and larger boats being SAFETY UNDER THE SEA ''Bluefin," equipped and properly outfit commissioned for the California sardine \Ve ,wish that some writer of books ted for sea, he has been busier than a and tuna fishery, rope of proper durabil ·would interest himself in the subject of c .... , -well, than the _proverbial ·cran ity and strength becomes a necessity for deep sea diving. Here-to-fore the few berrv merchant. The old patrol boat "Al the modern fisherman. Purse-lines and that have touched the topic at all, have bacOre" has been on the move ceaseless cork lines must be long an-d strong. The dealt with it. in the light of romance-the ly, and in consequence has gotten foul Tubbs Cordage Company supplies much wrecker, the salvager, the life-saver. and in need of overhaul. of this purse-line rope and regular man People have gotten the notion that the Ncnv that Capt. \Valtet· has graduated ila to the fishing industry, according to only man that ever puts on a diving suit to the skippership of the big new "Blue the C. J. ·Hendry Company, distributors. is the six-foot-six giant who intends de- fin," someone else will take over his late _, scending into hlack and -weedy depths to charge. 1v[e:mwhile, Captain H. B. Nid RUNNING LIGHTS drag from the rotting belly of some ever, supervising ca'ltain in charge of sunken galleon the rubles and duros and patrol at San Pedro, has prepared to have Running lights are something that one sovereigns that· have lain there since Sir the veteran iressel hauled out and slicked might not give serious thought, and yet Rrancis Drake dropped hook tmder the up before returning- her to service farther should the lights go out at sea and it be lea of Punta de los Reyes or Roger up-coast. In anticip:: COAST'S WICKWIRE famous liner was being rebuilt and sump FLOATING REPAIR SHOPS DRYER-BELTING tuously outfitted fof' the insular passenger irade, the Los Angeles Steamship Com Fishermen who go great distances for Fish packing is receiving .constantly in pany placed a series of orders with D. E. their catches, such as the high~sea tuna creased recognition as the large and con Papenfus, president and manager of the fishermen of California, have to worry sequential industry that it is. No better Duratite Putty Company of Los Angeles, about many things that ncYer crease the indication of this need be cited than the for a total of 243 gallons of his remark brow of their brothers who rarely ven fact that such extensive and long-estab able product. ture a day's run beyond the home port. lished manufacturing businesSes as the One item of equipment which it is ne·c \Vickwirc Spencer Cornoration of Los "A large part of their purchases was essary to carry along is the proper tool Angeles cousidcr it to their advantage to used in finishing the staterooms--we sup~ to repair anything that might need" it turn out esnecially-dcsigned goods to plied lhem with putty in all colors; from while the boat is out on the high seas, meet the exact needs of the canners and pure white to mrrhog<:ny, teak-wood or or off Mexico or Central America. ebony," Papenfus, the inventor, has said. processers n( fisher)~ products. A most modern battery of tools is car At first blush it might seem a long cry "They ·were especially pleased be~ause it ried by most large tuna cruisers, includ from -..vire-maki!'tg and steel refining t~J "·as used with entire success uPon the ing eYen electric drills, ·which are adapted putting up sardines, Juna and mackerel, Vehe.sote panelling ·with which the luxuri to use on board in many ways and are hut in\'Cstigation discloses that thousands ous cabins were finished." found quite useful in making emergency of tons of steel is used in .. the pacldng Several hundred pounds of the Duratite repairs. trade every year. putty went into exterior work, ho\\'ever, These -drills, produced by the United In substantiation of this assertion we whole gallons of it being used in "fare States Electric Tool Company, are found need point only to the tremendous sar~ ing-up" (that is, smoothing off) the steel to be almost necessities in some instances dine i:lrver thaL Sam Hornstein had built hull. Cracks and seams of all sorts were of breakdmvn aboard, according to the i.n the Packing rooms of the Coast Fish filled and then painted over-protruding C. J, Hendry Company, which distributes ing Company of \\lilmington. Hornstein rivet heads requiring considerable dress them to the fishing industry. laid down specifications for an 8-·wav ing up in this wav. dryer more than .100 feet long. Th(s "All of this work was done in 1926," meant considerably more than 1,600 feet savs Papenfus. ''I was up to the \Vil of spiral wire· conveyor belting 6 feet mlngton office of 1.fr. Lindo, marine su Subscribe Now! perintendent for the company, the other So you can receive each month ·wide, the order calling for l-inch mesh of without . delay The .,·West Coast No. 12 special steel ?lloy ·wire. \Vick day. He told me then that the putty was Fisheries, Including: the Annual wirc Spencer metal fnbric was requisi still in just as good. condition as when it Equipment and· Refri~;eration Num was first ap...,lied. The stuff has endless ber, also the New, Year De Luxe tioned for the reason that all of the other Edition. flexible wire mesh conveyors in the plant life and never becomes brittle or falls out," concluded the manufacturer. \Vest Coast Fisheries, were of the same material, and under test P, 0. Bo~ 1208, San Pedro. of hard usage had proven entirely de The recent fire aboard the liner having _ occasioned extens1ve damage to the big · Enclosed find S-- Send pendfLhle and satisfactory. me WCF for ...... years. steamer, Papenfus will no doubt be callel! upon to mix up another ton or two of his Name ... PUTTY BY THE TON remarkable "Duratite" compound, to aid Street .. ;lx,rJ in re-outfitting the elegant marine palace City...... - ...... State ...... 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Morse & Son, Inc. by the American Bureau of Shipping. 221 HIGH STREET, BOSTON, MASS. I Manufacturers of DIVING APPARATUS ,I Pacific Coast Representatives I The C. J. Hendry Company I San Francisco San Pedro San Diego I Jl7 C F-}une-F F V THE fRESH fiSH BUSINESS Of SAN fRANCISCO TRAWL-CAUGHT FARES OF FLATFISH SORTS SUPPORT LARGEST WEST COAST MARKET OME DAY SOMEBODY will incite Yiolence in their compass the reduced or concentrated S upon his own person by innocently applying qualities of all those others that have gone ·before. to that metropolis of the Golden Gate the apt but They arc, in truth, the inheritors of all the experi impolitic title of "The Flatfish Capitol of the West ence, progress and developed personnel of their Coast." Less inglorious than might at first he many erstwhile competitors, to whom they were supposed, San Francisco is just that, and in elab unrelated until after their demise. It seems an oration of this thesis there is much to be said. inverted genealogy. Yet the fact stands that men Humble though a flounder may be, and less of irom most of the defunct trade entities can be a dashing spectacle than a mighty Chinook or a found in the staffs of the surviving "Big Five" 300-pound leaping tuna, there is still something ma of today. jestic and impressive in so vast a quantity as 10,- No-one who is not already conversant with the 000,000 pounds peculiar compo of the I ow I y s i t i o n of the fia tfish. T h a t fresh fish trade amount is the of San Francisco approximate an can be expected nual harvest of to glean a cor the port, in con rect notion of its sequence of predication or \vhich it claims t r e n d from a credit for being: mere recitation 1. The larg of contemporary est f r e s h fish facts. To an in market on t h c sight into the West Coast, and subject some 2. The larg thing of its an est \Vest Coast tecedents must It producer of fresh be known, •' fish. wherefore it is I~ Although the proposed to § s e c o n d is not carry the reader necessarily a cor back 50 or more I~ a II a r y or se _years, and set ~ quence of t h e him down on the I a first, it is so in Yerba Buena fact. 'l"'he for waterfront about I tunate happen the time that the stance that pro Fresh Fish Department of F. E. Booth CG., Inc, '~Chronicle" was ductive fishing running big I grounds are found convenientlv at hand is one scare-heads on the exploits of Cole Younger. of the prime explanations for ihis unique truth. The Bay was full of lateen-rigged mosquito I craft, those clays. Eighteen-footers, double-ended, A Profane Gerwsis predominated. Not a half dozen boats longer than I No fishery activity of the country has experi 30 feet could be found in all the harbor. The rea enced a more evolutionary and revolutionary son for this was that ocean fishing was practically I career than that .of the market trade of San Fran unknown; the prolific waters of the unpolluted cisco. Until thC last year or two it has passed Bay produced more fish than the town could eat, through a continuous succession of metamor e\ren at lowest prices. Hundreds of fishermen I phoses, of unions and separations, of mergers and made large catches without using any boat at ail, disbanclings. The factors now extant in the busi fur beach-seine (Hchinchorro") cre\vs along the fl ness are of ancient heritage, there being incorpor strands landed th,ousands of pounds of assorted ated 'vithin each of them certain various elements stock each night without other assistance than I that hark back practically to our nnw almnst-com that of a skiff and a team or two of horses. Those pletely-forgotten Civil \Var. One might charac were times when no man worried about supply, terize the quintet of agencies at present in posses except about 'vhat to do with it. No wholesaler I sion of the field by saying that they contain with- dreamed of catching his own stocks in order to I FFV, Set:. 22-Page 5 W C F-]une-F F V provide fur the requests of his trade; no "fishing quit the work. Defections of this sort continued companies" existed for the purpose of exploiting until the greater part of that once large clan of in the sea for profit; the production of market fish dependent seiners, nctters and line fishermen had \Vas solely in the hands of independent, inclividual abandoned the old vocation, leaving the trawlers boatmen and netters. in practically undisputed possession of the fresh fish market. "Oh! Susunnalt!" C:osta beg~in his trawling operations with lateen EYen before the decline of placer mmmg in the sailing rigs. Other men soon imitated his exam '50's and '60's thousands of gold-rushers hatl ple, but none ever equalled him in the art of bot turned their attention to agricultural and indus tom seining. After his fame had become wide trial pursuits. San Francisco conYerted itself spread, and his recognized talent had invested 1-im (v.-ith the kindly assistance of a wholesale con ·with a prestige having commercial vvorth, men of flagration or hvo) fron1 a tent and shanty camp means were ready to lend him finances that he of unshorn ,adventurers to a brick, adobe and frame might build especially-designed steam fishing city of business men. In characteristic California tugs, ·with which to supplant the old canvas-driven style it climbed ·side\vavs all over the near-bv craft. Eventually several of these were bullt; · hills, marched backwardS dcnvn the valley of th~ thev fished not in the Bav-but went out.to sea in l\Iission, and proccedcU tn filLup with people at stc Costa. He it was who showed A scene in the plant I. of The Standard the others how. Never a mar- Fisheries; up· ket man himself, he C A New Leacler A new element that assisted in effecting One of the concerns to emerge from the lVIarine this betterment was the fact that local supplies of Commercial Company \Vas the hybridized "San many sorts of fish had become so scant that im Francisco-International Fish Company", a two portations of large tonnages of \7\,T ashington and phase outfit that had been fused by Booth because Oregon stock was made imperative in order that neither half seemed compdcnt to stand alone. the public demand for favorite specialties might Guiseppe ("Joe") Alioto, man of energy and a be met. Since these shipments were composed of square dealer, came dashing out uf the defunct frozen salmon and frozen halibut, chiefly. suitable "lviarine" organization astride this tottering steed, facilities had to be provided for carrying this stock and with a cheer and aggressiveness that seemed along until the retail trade required it. Space was almost heroic undertook to win the fresh fish available from cold storage houses, but the fish steeple chase with the wobbly, long-shot freak. concerns found it to their advantage from evCry This was in late 1914. standpoint to possess their own equipment and Alioto had been one of the most tenacious and accommodations. successful designers of ways and means of up Tlze "Big Five" setting the old fish-producing monopoly-indeed, at the time of the organization of the l\{arine Com San Francisco's fresh fish trade is today blank mercial Company he had completed such experi eted by five large distributors. Every one of these mental tests as had convinced him that he knew produces its own flatfish and other trawl-caught a way to achieve independence for himself-and stock. Together they land an annual catch of quickly, too. Therefore, immediately that his some 10,000,000 pounds of flounders, in addition identity was restored he gathered together a fleet to other considerable, though lesser, quantities of such incidental trawl kinds as rockfish, sablefish, of 'vell-engined gasoline craft, began sea trawling on his own account, and within a brief period not lingcod, halibut, perch and rough sorts. only achieved complete self-sufficiency, but ex All of the fishing companies likewise interest panded his business to the point of becoming a themselves in the annual salmon harvest, main major factor in t,he trade. taining buy-barges in the coves most frequented by the ocean trolling craft as well as operating Even as late as the ·world vVar fish still were pick-up boats on the rivers during nms. These comparatively plentiful. The seaward grounds latter are active agencies in collecting the com discovered and proved up by Pedro Costa still mercial catch of shad ;:nul of striped bass, both of yielded sufficiently to forestall 'inquisitive ones which lo01n large in comparison with the other from gratifying their inclination to prospect at wise generally exhausted supply. Small quanti greater distances for new and better banks. Us ties of catfish, carp, suckers and ublackfish" origi ually a run of 40 or 50 miles from port was ade nate in lakes and small water bodies throughout quate to get a "set" over reasonably rich bottom, the northern part of the state, or are received by and one or two hauls of a couple of hours dura rail from production points in Nevada, Utah and tion was sufficient to load the deck' with several Arizona, but in the aggregate these lots are of tons of catch. The practice in those clays was to small moment. heave overboard everything but the finest of each Aside from the frozen salmon and halibut of lift; only choice stock eYer was carried into port. . northern origin-which is not "fresh fish" at all 1vl arcover, not being able to guage the market within the trade meaning of that too exclusive with exactness, all of the sets habitually landed term-San Francisco depends largely upon San more fish than the dealers could distribute. Cap Pedro assistance in meeting her varying markets. tains recount that on many mornings they carried From the south heavy shipments of totuava and back to sea tons of unsold fish. These had spoiled corbina are Obtained, practically the entire quan for want of refrigeration, and had to be dumped tity being derived from the Gulf of California, so that others might be caught and carriell back l\fexico. Barracuda is another big item, a·nd yel in their stead. lowtail, rockfish, swordfish and even the tunas Each day was a cycle unto itself. \Vhen storms also enter the list. In the crustacean field the handicapped marine operations, or held the ves spiney lobster, likewise of l\1exican origin, figures seJs fast in port, dearth besieged the markets until against a reciprocal movement of the great north OJ~erations could recommence. Little aleviation ern crab. was had from supplementary sources of fish, for \\Tithin recent months East Coast haddock all through the years the production of most of filets have made their appearance in the \Vash the inshore species had fallen steadily towards ington and Clay streets establishments, and with the point· of practical commercial extinction. every indication pointing to a further decline in close-in fishing areas, the utilization of imported Atlvenl of Refrigeration stocks must be expected to increase. Increasing markets, whose effect was multiplied Five Fisltillg Jrlholesalers I and exaggerated by concurrent declines in sup I. ply, presently compelled consideration for the Five competing agencies operate bet\veen 20 and quantities of saleable stock theretofore wasted. 30 diesel .trawl tugs in the fresh fish business of Appreciation of the profits being lost through a San Francisco. These companies are: want of storage facilities became general, and one 1. The San Franci~co-International Fish Co. by one each of the wholesalers in the market in 2. The V{estern-California Fish Co. cfeascd their storage facilities from a cracked ice .). A. Palaclini, Inc. basis to regular insulated. rooms chilled with am 4. F. E. Booth Cn., Inc. monia pipes. 5. The Standard Fisheries. Page 8-FFV, Sec. 22 ] UN E, W. C. F. 1 9 3 0 31 New Officers Elected by ''Johnnie Boy" Fishermen's Association Trial Trip lleld Annual election of officers was held Paul Fiamengo's new 76-foot purse last month by the l'ishermen's Coopera seiner, "Johnnie Boy," recently given fin tive Association at San Pedro, Calif., at ishing touches at the Los Angeles Ship which time it >vas also announced that building & Drydock Corp., went through M. P. Suglian, ·who has served as secre the final ceremony of her completion on tary since organization o£ the group in 1fay 19, when Capt. Fiamengo took his December, 1926, has accepted the posi family and friends oil a picnic-trial trip tion of assistant manager of the Fisher to Santa Catalina Island. men's Packing Corporation of Everett, Capt. Fiamcngo announced that as VVash. soon as the local tuna begin to run he 1vir. Suglian's successor as execut1ve \Yill put her into actin service, fishing in charge of the general business of the for the Coast Fishing Company of \Vil association is S . .P. Stambuk, who has mington, Calif. been connected with the fishing industry The vessel is powered \Yith a 200~h. p. and the Slavonian colony in San Pedro \Vcstern Enterprise diesel engine, for since 1923. 1v[r. Stambuk is vice presi which :-;he can carry 6,000 gallons of fuel dent of the Jugoslav Club, president of oil. The hold is insulated \Vith cork on thC monthly magazine "Jugoslavia," and M. P. Suglinn, and his successor, S. P. Stambuk. deck 01nd bulkheads, but no ice machine secretary of the Croatian Fratenw.l Fish Harbor to Be Dredged has been installed as yet. The capacity Lodge No. 598. He states that he will at Terminal lslnnd, Calif. of the fish~storage space is about 85 tons. continue to operate his ship brol~erage Los Angeles Harbor Engineer George T'he craft has a beam of 22 feet and a business. Nicholson aunounced on 1Vfay 15 that depth of 10 feet. The boat was built at Mr. Stambuk took charge of the asso specifications were being made and that the Long Beach Boat Building Company ciation's office on the municipal fish wharf . bids were to be called shortly for the yard . June 1, at about which time Mr. Suglian dredging of the chatwel to Fish Harbor, The party of merry-makers which ac departed for Everett, \Vasil., to assume Terminal Island, and of the cntir(" fish companied Capt. Fiamengo on his initial his new duties. It \Vas stated that there ing-boat port itself. tr~p consisted. of: Nick J urun and family, wi11 ·be no change whatever in the policy The channel and harbor will ht.. dr-edged N tel~ B oskovtch, ] ohn Mardesich, John of the organization. to a depth of 22 feet and will co:;t ;l:p Mannkovich, Bob Vitalich, Nick M. Nick Ursich \vas re-elected president proximately $75,000. It w-as expected that ]'urttn, 1v[iss Mary Boskovich, Andrew ·and Pete Dragich, Jr., was returned to the work would start about June 10 ami Dedahovich, George Fiamingo, Tony the office of vice presidcn t. Andrew that it will be completed a month or 40 Fiamengo, Johnnie Fiamengo Pete Xitco, for the past· year treasurer, was days thereafter. Fiamengo, John Mardesich at~d Tony elected secretary and Frank Gargas was This improYcment will allow f1·ce access Clralich. selected as treasurer. The {]irecors tn the Fish Harbor for the largest of the named are Jalcov Misetich, 1fatt Zovich high-sea tuna ships. The wofk will not * * * and Slavko Ivancic. inconvenience fishing boats while it =s To Build New The Fishermen's Cooperative Associa under way. - 85~/oot Combination tion has grown from 11 members when Mr. Nicholson also stated that the 1-Iarbor Boat Building Company, Ter it \vas formed a little over three years harbor department is rebuilding the break ago to 64 members at the present time. minal Island, Calif., announces a contract water which protects Fish HarLHJr a;td to build a new 85-foot combination live· the sea -.;vall to the east of Fish Harbor, bait and purse-seine boat for H. Ishigaki, * * * both of ·which were damaged in the E. Kojima, S. Nakamura and A. Yoshioka, Keel Laid for heavy surge of April. The barrier at Fish N ezv Tuna Cruiser independent fishermen who as yet have Harbor is being raised approximately not committed themselves as to the can Keel was laid during the middle ·of three feet. No action has yet been taken nery for \vhich they will fish. May at the Parke & Kibele marine ways, toward the dredging of the area JUSt out~ \Vilmington, Calif., for a 105-foot tuna side of the breakwater, according to 1-Jr. According to Jack Hamilton of tlle cruiser for which contract was awarded Nicholson, as attempts are being made to boat-building company, keel will be laid some time ago by ]. Kohigashi and K. secure an agreement between the fi.shinf{ for the craft at once. Launching of the Y OU CAN'T NAVIGATE so as to ·Even while running at a carefully mod Y miss a sunken rock when you don't ulated rate the diesel developed trouble. know where it is, is the declaration of Piston rings froze, and difficulty of a Parke & Kibele, Inc. Captain J. Mardesich, master of tbe number of sorts was experienced. Since "Sunkist." And if the rock is not upon the big engine- a 4~cylinder, 220 h. p. the government charts, and its presence VVashington-Estep-had never before Superior Service for -is not betrayed by the floating fronds of given anything except perfect satisfac Fishing Boats streaming kelp, the hapless f1sherman is tion, the boatmen are convinced that in certain to become its even tu.al victim. the terrific impact of the collision the The ''Sunkist," 84-foot purse-seiner, heavy machinery had shifted out of posi Dry Dock and Repair was one of the numerous fleet that early tion. this spring repaired to famous Cabo San Lucas, 1-fexico, in anticipation of the Specialists coming of the yellowfin tuna schools. As the season advanced and no fish showed, the men became restless and took to Day and Night Service cruising considerable distances into the Gulf in search of something with which Main Shops at to fill their holds. It was while running~ , north along the eastern shore of the Baja Berth 94, San Pedro California peninsula that the "Sunkist" met ...vith misfortune. A New Danger Branch Marine Ways "It was on the third of April about 4 and Shops Accommodating Craft o'clock in the afternoon, that we went up to I 000 tons at aground on a submerged rock. It's a wonder we ever hit it, for it was only a Berth 160, Wilmington sort of under-water needle, no bigger than our turn-table. It lay fully a quarter of a mile off shore, in a place where the Agent& for charts show 13 fathoms of \Vater, be tween the Coronado Islands (the ones Hunt-Spiller Gunmetal Iron within the Gulf-Ed.) and San Bruno for piston rings and cylinder Creek. It lies about five miles from San Bruno Creek, which is to- say not quite liners for Diesel Engines. one-half of the 12-mile distance to the MARIE JOAN GABELICH Coronados. About seven feet of water covers the rock. "BELLE ISLE" CHRISTENED Phones San Pedro 2790-2791 ''We drove against it going half speed, Captain J aim Gabelich's tropical tuna . which means better th;m six knots. You cruiser was christened and launched in can imagine what that did to her." the Parke & Kibele yards at \Vilming ion, Calif., at 9:30 P. 1\L 1\by 28. J\lany S. P. STAl\IBUK, Ollice l\-Innnger Friends in Need of the staff of the French Sardine Co., "How far were vou from Cabo San for which the vessel will fish, were pres Fishermen's Cooperative Lucas or La Paz!" ihe skipper was asked. ent to witness the ceremony, and a crowd "Oh, about 200 miles, but that didn't of perhaps 75 or 100 people gathered by Association make any difference, for we were lucky the time the big craft was cascaded intq Membership 65 Purse~Sciners in having help close at hand," he said. the brine. Little Marie Joan Gabelicli, Average 8 Men to Boat Correspondence invited relative purchases "There were five of us fishing there to the Captain's only daughter, cracked the of our members. Information gether and within half an hour all four beribboned bottle, the colors of the gladly gtven. of the others had come to try help us. streaming silk being those of Jugoslavia. MUNIClj>AL FISH WHARF They all put lines aboard and, after sev T'he bottle-breaking was accomplished eral attempts, got us off." only after wild howls from the spectators SAN PEDRO, CALIF. The purse-boats in question were the had awakened John Hansen, veteran yard "Excelient," "Sea Rider,'' "Vitality" and foreman, to the realization that an omis "Costa Riga," of which the masters •vere sion was being committed. Hansen, in Captain Luka Alafetich, Peter Dragich, tent on getting the big boat into the S. Ciamincino, Pres. A. Farina, Secy, Sr., John lviartinovich, and the well water before the tide should fall, almost known Japanese :=;kipper, Y. Suzuki, re forgot to punctuate the downward slide Crab and Salmon srJectivelv. All told, the diesel power with the regulation brief halt in which to Fishermen's Protective plants of these vCssels were capable of uermit the tiny 1\Iiss to slap a perfectly Association exerting a combined strain of 695 horse good quart against the cut-water. power. Following the launching a munber of 11 MEMBERSHIP OVER 250 BOAT 0nce they got their lines aboard they invited guests concurred at the home of OWNERS took us off in a hurry," stated Captain Captain and Mrs. Gabelich, at 1531 S. Mardesich. "\Ve were on the rock only Patton, San Pedro. The jolly party in Telephone Franldin 4989 about 45 rl1inutes. It was a lucky break MEIGG'S WHARF cluded 1-fr. and Mrs. M. J. Bogdonovich, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. all the way around." 1J r. and lv!rs. Ingvanl 1fartin, ::Mr. and Once freed from its uncomfortable Mrs. \Vm. J. Maggio, 1fr. and J\Jrs. Perch, the vessel ·\\'as headed for the James Stewart, 1\.fr. ctnd 7\.Irs. 1\L B. Stew ancient pearling port of Loreto: art, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur R. Pegg, l\Ir. and 1\Jrs. Edward Bowen, 1{r. and l'virs. H. YOKOZEKJ, Secretary S. Romich, Mr. and i\.frs. Robert \Vads W. Murray Little worth, 1\fr. and Mrs. J. A. Yaksitch, lfr. Southern Calliil!ornia and 1virs. John J. Brown, Miss Helen Japanese lFiishermen's Rall:'bor Sheet Metal Brown, Mr. and 1.frs. L. M. Herman, lvfiss Association Works Virginia Lee Herman, Georg·e Hanscn, Mnkern of G:J.Sollne, Fuel, Oil Tnnk.'l, Bout Dave Stewart, Edward Veclik, G. A. Sla Enterprising and without question Work, Ventilators, Retinnlng Gulley Ware, vich, Charles I. Houghton, George loyal to the interests which it tends DruSII, Cnpper nnd Sheet Iron \Vorks Brocich, Mrs. ]\.f. 1-J. Moran, ?vfiss Clara to serve. 248 CANNERY ST. TERMINAL ISLAND, CALIF. Gabclich, :Vfiss Antonette G:Jbclich. l\L Telephone 3595 Phone 349 Res. Phone 2425-J \V. Eley, James V. Carroll. Geo. Roger TERMINAL ISLAND, CALIF. Chute and .Milton J. Lindner. 34 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES \\'ork-out at high noon, under a generous, "CHICKEN Of THE SEA" PASSES TESTS 3-gallon pot of Java." Bait-tanks and bait-wells be-ing his es :MAST'El\PIES:E. of th.c ship-wright turn nm the }.:!organ brothers were busy pecial interest and province, \V"altcr Mor A art, conceiVed 1t1 mvent1ve progress directing the breaking-in of the machin gan, boss fisherman, had these filled and iveness and executed witJ1 perfection as ery. aboard, and subjecting every bit of emptied time after time as a test of his the sole standard and f1mitation, was mechanical apparatus on the ship to all circulatory system and the efficiency of consummated when the Ivlorgan brothers' conceivable tests and trinls. The great the big Fairbanks-Morse ball-bearing new tu11a cruiser, the "Chicken of the 500 h. p, \\!estern-Enterprise main diesel pumps with which the ship is equipped. Sea" went into commission on the f1rst \vas itself put through all its paces, the In fact, everything conceivable was done of June. This splendid fishin£" ship, em auxiliary power plants were gotten into with the single exception of adjusting the bodying all that _is latest and most mod service, and generators, rnotors, \Vinches high class E. S. Ritchie & Sons compass ern in craft for the tuna trade, rcp!·escnts and tackle all were tried out. -and that was accomplished by an expert an outlay consider- J. Skov, expert a few days later. _ ablv in excess of one >vireless electrician h u i1 d red thousand and telegrapher of the On the return leg of the trial jaunt dollars. Such an ex TuE WORJ(MEN NAMED Radio-1larine Cor young Harol-d Morgan, Jr., took the penditure seems a her .first. While sletlgt~s still beul poration's \:\,Tilming-' \vheel in his father's stead. Sea-bred, and staggering price for rtprm lwr solid frmne, dridng ;rartl ton headquarters, with inherited talent, the boy steered a a ''fish boat", hut long drift lmlts through ht~r mns made the trip for the true course straight from the "isthmus" reason is appeased .'>iN~ limlJers, the shipwrights named purpose of tuning up up to the San Pedro Breakwater Light. when one reHects lu!r '"Tlw Qut!tm of the Fleet.'~ the ship's 750 K\Y. The big cruiser was warped alongside that this dicselled llur now lwr day of admiration is transmitting set. Vis the Parke & Kibele wharf at 6:30 in the cruiser is capable of done, mal slw has been put to tlw itors and guests evening. ., t' r i o us business of harvesting aboard expressed cargoing more than A llmul-Piclwd Crl!W $15,000 worth of ked ocea11 wealth from the ltmgues of their astonishment at fish, all at a single $all- prairie to tlw south. TFith her the facility and the So as to be able personally to com load. ilt•signers mul. owners in coliUJUllHl, assuredness with mand the vessel on its maiden expedition all portents nre tlwt she tvill lu! which he went about in the fishing, Harry Morgan, San Pedw Tlw 1'riul Trip sudt n "qut!tm'' os li-lidas rvus a the job, t e a r i n g representative for the \V estern-Enter Sunday, M a.y 25, hing. down the aerial, re- prise diesel engine company, has obtain-ed ·was set as the day fashioning it, adjust a 3-months' leave-of-absence in which to on which the finished ing transformer clips, take his ship to the soutlnYard banks. In vessel would be proven out. Half-a-hun and, finally, declaring the set nicely tuned this initial undertaking he will have for "drcd friends and well-wishers of the Mor and in perfect sending condition. lieutenants his two brothers, E. L. Mor gan families gathered at the Parke & L. G. \Vallacc, of ·the York Tee l\la gan and \Valier Morgan, who will fill Kibele yards, \Vilmington, at 10 o'clock chine Company, was present to "give the the places of chief engineer and boss fish sharp of that morning, and the entire works" to his 25 h.p., 12-ton York com erman, respectively. In addition to. these party embarked for a gala day ab_oard the pressor and its 4,500 feet of 1 y.f -inch dis officers, Burt Hannon will go as "Sparl,::.S" handsome, yacht-painted craft. Captain tributing system. E. L. J\forgan, chief in the "wireless shack." Harry Morgan, master and part owner, engineer, was an attentive Ob-server of Heading the "gang" are hvo men took the ·wheel and laid a course directly these manipulations, since the refrigera whose very names bespeak ability and for the anchorage at the famous Santa tion of the ship is to be his especial conversance with the sea-Charles An Catalina "isthmus." The run ·was charge in addition to the primary func derson and Allen Jensen. The full com "clocked", and arrival made at exactly tion of keeping the big diesel running plement will be made up of experiencefl the estimated time. All hands then went smoothly. t-una-hands who already have "crossed the ashore in the vessel's small boats, where "Everything was tested and re-tested, line" and caught their fish on the south a delicious picnic dinner -was served by not only once but continuously, all dur side of the equator. To insure a perfect the \vivcs of the three owners. The day ing both halves of the trip," declares J. balance in the crew 3 expert Japanese was an ideal one-it was only with ex V. Carroll, representative of the \:Vest live-bait men have been engaged to join treme reluctance that the celebrators at Coast Fisheries, who accompanied the the hand. These cannv fello,vs -will man last went back aboard for the return to party. "They flooded the bilges and the craw's nest, and "si11cll out" the tuna port. pumped them out repeatedly, they triCd schools, \Yherever they may be. out the high-pressure fire lines, and they Every Machine 1't!Sletl ran all the cargo hoists and winches. Off to the Bun/;s During both the outwar-d and the re- Even the ;big Ingle range was given a On May 31 the "Chicken of the Sea" put out to sea from San Pedro on the first fishing cruise of what should be a rich career. "\V"herc are you going to get your fish?" was the hail that was sent to the Skipper. "South!" he called back. "South! \Vherever the fish are; and we don't care "·here!" OIDENTAL FISH SHIPS Japaw sc newspapers arc said to he The Morgan tuna cruiser is broadcasting the information that Japan the handiwork of the Parke is now building two large freezer-ships & Kibele yards; it is hailed at either Kobe or Nagasaki, for the ex~ as the best-built and most capable craft of all the trop press purpose of developing the un ical fleet; it is the present touched resources of the Gulf of Cali~ climrur: of a continuing prog fornia. At an early date these two ves ress that has signalized the West Coast as the apex of sels are expected to arrive in Occidental American fishing-ship con- waters. \vherc they will devote their struction energit's to supplying" the fresh fish markets of California and the South west generally. Some of the wholesalers of the \-\'est Cootst expect that the com mencement of Japanese fishing on the cast shore of the Pacific will result in the production of hundreds of tons of fresh shrimp, r.ative l\'Icxican oysters, and large supplies of clams that have heretofore never bl'en exploited. JUNE, 1930 35 S. D. Marine Construction Co. launches Patrol Boat uBiuefin" HE ACKNOWLEDGED FACT that she had had department the new vessel belongs. JVfurmurs Of ap ____T her bottom \Vet several times previously did not proving comment arose from the spectators on hearing detract ftom the entire success' of the official launching Farley's selection of first speaker, since N. B. Scofield of- the California Fish Commission's smart new vessel, and H. B. Nidever are the recognized veterans of the the "Bluefin/' The ceremony took place on the after . commercial fisheries administration, and are entitled iwon of :May 24 and was well attended, several hun to credit for its successful evolution and development dred persons gathering to witness the event. It would from a two-man patrol proposition to the comprehensive he fl. pleasure 'to recount the ,vho1e service that it is today .. Story, but limitations of space make it "This is a. happy day for me and STURDY NEW itnperative only to sketch the happen for the Commission," Scofield told ings: craft dedicated to career of them, and 1vent on to explain that 1. Captain Oakley ]. Hall, owner hard latocks ancl investigative the completion of the "Bluefin" rep of the San Diego Marine Construction labor!! ope_ns new gates to resented the culmination of four years Company, builders of the ship, acted study our 1n.arine food re~ of striving. I-Ie pointed out that the :as 1naster of ceremonies. \Nhen all sources, trem.endous grozc,th uAibacorc"-now appropriately to be w_as in readiness for the christening of industry having outpaced described as both "old" and "littie" and launching, Captain Hall ad old patrol boat "Albacore." had been outgrown by the- tremen diessed the gathering, spoke of his dous developments in \Nest Coast q_atisfaction in having been awarded the .contract for fisheries, making necessary the provision of a better building the vessel and said that he would evade the boat that should be able to assist in the large problems i1ecessity of making- a speech by introducing 1vfajor of research that have arisen. - John Farley, who would take charge. 3. Reginald Fernald, commissioner from Santa Bar 2. Farley, executive officer of the Commission, made bara, spoke brieHy in humorous. vein, telling the crowd a few appropriate remarks'in introducing N. B. Scofield, that the only point yet undecided was -whether to tnount ~head of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, to ·which 6-inch or 8-inch guns on this big patrol vessel, the "Bluefin;" MISS MARY NIDEVER, SPONSOR, IS HERE SEEN 4. I. Zellerbach, president of the Commission, point ABOUT TO CHRISTEN THE "BLUEFIN. TO THE eel out that the vessel had cost the ta.xpayers nothing LEFT REAR ARE ,<:'APT. R. B. NIDIWER, N. B. that levies on fish caught had paid for the ship-and SCOFIELD, I. ZELL~RBACH, R. FERNALD, AND he mentioned vvith evident satisfaction that the Fish MAJ. JOHN FARLRY, A FRACTION OF THE ·LARGE CROWD THAT ATTENDED IS SEEN IN THE Commission ·is a governmental agency that is entirely BACKGROUND. self-supporting. (Continued on Page 37) 36 11. F. P. A. SECT I 0 N BAJA CALIFORNIA ACTIVITIES "STEllA D' GENOA" DISABlED La Nacional de Productos Marinos, S. A., commonly. referred to as uthe HILE running s'outh, towards Pan the "Stella D' Genoa'' bringing in 32 Ensenada cannery," is- said to be busy W na, the (!Stella D' Genoa" struck tons of tuna for Van Cari1p while the packing abalone. at the -present time. The what her skipper, Capt. Fred Canepa, be "Glory of the Seas" unloaded only z·s product is designed for the Oriental mar lieves to have _be~n a floating log. -Several tons at the Cohn-Hopkins p1ant. Repairs ket and is put up in .No. 1 ta1Is. Friends terrific shocks made knO'>Yn to the men to the damaged cruiser -wil1 be ·made in of M. A. (''Mike") Leonis, president of that the propeller had been injured, a fact the yards of the Campbell Machine Com the firm, say_ that receiltly he completed a that was further borne out by an im pany. pack of sardines especially prepared for mediate reduction -'in speed: Finding, Aside from the accident, the "Stella Mexican consumption, and tlmt consider however,-- that thry could still milke' some D' Genoa" had a hard trip. The cruise rari able Quantities of both ye1lowtail and headway, the Vessel cruised about, pick considerably over 50 days-almost hvo bonito had been packed iri No. 1 talls for ing up 1,vhat fish it could,- until it was de months-an·d the vesse1 had to put into distribution >vithin the ~orders of our cided to return home. "'\Vhen 1200 miles Manzanillo twice to buv additional fuel. Sister RePublic, south of Point Lama one blade of the The costs for this extra- oil amounted to propeller dropped off and the vibration $2,600, so that after paying expenses The Bernstein Biothers cannery at La set up by the unabalanced >vheel was so the shares figured out at only $19.23 per Isla de Cerros is now working on abalone great that the ship was able to proceed n1a11. and on yCllow.tail. Yellowta-il are unusu into Manzanillo only-.._undt:r greatly re But are we down-hearted?-NO! _The ally abundant around Cerros; and the duced ::;r:..ecd. crew made light of their bad 1uck when Bernsteins ·were (JUick to take advantage From. the Mexican port the captain they fi:1ally _got back to port, and just of this natural provision· when, several wired to the Sail Diego offices of his in to show how gay -they felt, tl1ey, marched years n.go, they developed their special surers, , asking instructions and saying "Salmo" pack and its well-designed labeL that- the ''Glory of the Seas" \vas stand up to the Balboa Park zoo with the ship's new_ mascot-a Central America Summ~r being_ here, it is to be expected ing by, ready to tow him home. Authori that the operations of the plant will soon zation ·was transmitted, and on May 5 the pet iguana or tree lizard about a fathom long-and donated it -to the rare reptilian be -varir.d with the usual run on Scam one tuna ship started bringing the other mon's Lagoon ucahuama''-the greatest north, the vessels being made fast collection of that remarkable recreation sea turtle so widely esteemed 'throughout abreast. Arrival was made 11 days later, cenler.-G.R.C. Mexico. +------~------~------~------~----+ Cabo San Lucas has had some activity this season as a result of ''broken trips" being brought in and sold to the Bern MEDINA LANDS BIG FARE of other inanimate creatures of the air. stein Brothers cannery there by American Beverly S. Cooper, of .the Mission Bell At the very height of the recent tuna Petroleu:n Company advises that the fishing craft unable to gather together scarcity, when any number ·of boats came Bowlus Sailplane Company, makers of enough fish to warrarit a run home with back to port entirely empty, Captain engine-lr.ss gliders, has leased the for it. Moreover, .and in addition to the tuna Juaquin Medina, commander of the "Sao ward portion of the building for the pur handled, the plant has been pursuing its Joao," cased alongside the K. Hovden poses of commercial 1Jroduction of un settled po1icY of -providing a market for cannery at Point Lama to announce in powererl aerial craft. Already the com the acri.!ages of tomatoes lhat are pro matier-cf-fact terms that he had 130 tons -pany has a working force· of 40 or 50 duced in· the neighborhood of the Cape of tuna on. board, Of this amount six each year. These tomatoes have been or seven tons was composed of extra mechanics; the output is one plane-a day, comiertcd into, catsup, a re1ish much ordinarily large specimens; the ba1ance at prr}-scnt. esteemed in the country and which is \vas comparatively small. 'The load· 'rhis is a "bum break for Cooper,. who imported. in large qua-ntities from the weighed out at about 70 tons of yellow- occupies the waterfront and the whole United States. The Bernstein catsup has fin and 40 of skipjack. rear of the· premises, since the Bow1us been described- by fair and , impartial Juaquin:_ Medina is a consistent pro gliders burn neither diesel oil nor gaso judges as ''a verY good article," and the ducer, for the smallest fare that he ever line, and most certainly carry· no cargoes 1930 pack has been declared as superior has brought to port since the commis of cracked ice. to that of the year previou,s, being more sioning of his 121-foot "Sao J oao" 1vas uniform and of brighter color. one trip of 97 tons. Despite this fact he has never had the vessel entirely _full. A large consig-nment of fertilizer and "V'.f e once took aboard 147 tons in OLIVER STARTS SALTING reduction machinery was delivered to about l'our daYs of fishing/' he related, Tov,.·ards the end of May· the American the premises of the Magdalena Bay "but thus far i.VC never -have been ab1e to Fisheries had gotten -·well started on its Packing Company- by the tender "Cen get qui~e enough fish io fill her up com season'3 prOgram of fish salting and cur tralia," according- to Luis 1L Sa1azar of pletely. VVe could'- stow about 150 tons ing. -L. Oliver then stated that some 15 San Diego, local agent for the firm. He in her,'' he -said. or 2(} tons of fish already was in the also reports having been advised that 1vlost outstanding of all the achieve brine, of which amount the greate·r part the >Vorkmen of the cannery have,_., suc ments of the "Sao Joao" is that of its :was j ewJish. ceeded -in developing twice as much ·water remarkable fish-carrying record. It is "Yellowtail and barracuda have been from the famous old· spring as ha,s ever unique ~n the fishery for never having _too high in price to -enable us to _put been done bdore.. This spring on the hpd ·a tuna condemned as unfit for canN them in the vats," he said.' uwe expect Isla de M-argarita, has been known to mng. -The skipper states, however, that ntcirc bountifu1 catches and lower prices mariners since the davs of Drake and he has had some fish ruined by being presently, and v.rill no doubt salt 150 or Roger Cavendish,, it ha"s been plotted on crushed, but none- ever discarded as 200 tons of fish before fall." charts and described in coast pilots, tained with decay. The American Fisheries salting crew Aurelio Sandoval built _a cannery beside "Our vessel is not different from many is entirely Portuguese, These men know it mauy years ago, the pueblo of 1-!ag of the others," Captain Medina has said. .. what sort of product is wanted by their dalcna depends upon it for its water sup "The difference is in the crew. All of my fellow countrymen who are dairymen or ply, ann now a uew packing plant has men are expert at icing down, and we inland a~riculturists _ and consume prac been erected near itto take advantage of take great care never lo 'a1low fish to lie tically all of the product. It is a specia1- the natural bounty- which, in that desert a'round on deck/' ized market. region, is so rar~e and, valuable. Whatever the explanation, it certainly is true that the 130 tons of stock thatwas "Fish has to be about. tllree cents a unloaded from the r•sao J oao" on May 24 pound before we can afford 'to salt 'it;" FISK STARTS YARD was as bright and clear-eyed as though de claret;! Oliver. "\V e pay the same price George Fisk, shiPwright, formerly of the fish had ,not been freighted up from for all of the sorts that we can use, and the staff of the Genera1 Marine organiza off Cabo San Lucas, but had been hooked sell at a flat rate a1so. Rock cod is not tion, has branched out for himself and locally, on the San Clemente grounds. suited to sa1ting for the reason thai it is has two boats already under way. Fisk so· fat along the fins and backbone that has taken up quarters in the rear of the the sun's heat dries out the oily tissue Neptune Seafood, p1ant, on ground leased CANNERY IS. GLIDER FACTORY so111ewhat and the fish has a tendency to from Beverly S. Cooper of the Mission The old Neptune Seafood establish d!sintegratc. They take salt well, but Bell Pelroleui:n Company. His first job ment, where Col. Lindbergh's famous ptck one of them up by the tail and all is a pleasure cruiser, the second is to be "Spirit of SL Louis" was constructed by the meat falls off, leaving you with the a fishing boat, and he has in prospect the Ryan people, is to be the birth-place back bone in your hil.nd." contracts for the , tuna ·. trad~~ JUNE, W. C. F. 1930 37 BLUEFIN LAUNCHED "Biuefin's" master; Capt. L. L. Chappelle of Los An geles; E. C. Scofield and Milton Lindner, both of the {C,outimud from Page 35) Laboratory staff; Clem Stose of San Diego; vV. L. Rob At this juncture Major Farley introduced Miss Mary inson and IV". C. Tonkin of the California Packing Nidever, who with fitting -taste had been selected to Corp.; Dean JohnsonJ manager of the l\1arine Constru-e:.. aCt as sponsor for the new craft. J\1iss Nidever is the tion yard; L. E. Gearey, designer of the vessel, accom' datlghter 'of Captain II. B. Nidever, supervising captain panied by Mrs. Gearey; Mr. and :Mrs. vVm. Kunkel; in charge of patrol in the San Pedro district, and the Mr. and Mrs. Coburn Maddox; John E. Roal; Arthur setii'a,r marine patrol officer )n the service. She -was Alley; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Bruington; Mr. and Mrs. N. attended by Miss Kathleen O'Brien of Los Angeles, S. Kalbaugh; Capt. John vVick of the yacht "Berta whO 1-clieved her, at the time of the christening, of the M.," J\L J. vValsh, head of the Kelco Company plant of bea,ttiful bouquet of roses that had been provided San Diego; Chas. vV. Hibbard, collector for the Stein through the thoughtfulness of Captain Oakley Hall and hart Aquarium; F. Page Bacon, of the State Board of tli<--San Diego 1\1arine Construction Company. Health, in comp·any _·with 1\irs. Bacon and friends; F • .The launching was a popular event. In addition to G. Ogden, guest of I. Zellerbach. 'l'he throng defied tliO_Se previously mentioned there were present: \\T. L. enumeration. S~:qfield, director of the State Fisheries Laboratory at 'rhe "B1uefin" 'already. has been put to work. \Vith Terminal Island, accompanied by Mrs. Scofield and its new trawling \vinch on board it has been sent .out their daughters, Betty and Sarah; Capt. and Mrs. C. H .. on an investigativ'e mission; it is to alternate between Groat of San Pedro; Mrs. \V"alter Engleke, wife of the research duties and maintaining patroL-G. R. C. $300,000 lOBSTERING CORP. fORMED OF MEXICAN lob fields, but that actual embarking on these lar£-e scale will be must \Vait upon the successful launching c .. J .. Corporation-18 pt - of its lobstering program.-G. R. C. i:~16~~~;:c:i~~,~~,~~~ new $300,000 San Diego is now be_ing carried STOSE SELLS LIGHTING PLANTS HENDRY CO .. stages of its organizu Captain .f. Stenpler, master of the of the _San_ Diego Fish "Lois. S./' has just invested in one of the FISHERMEN'S seems to be the central 110-volt lighting sets .that Clem Stose is selling to. fishing craft, yachts and boats SUPPLIES ;;~,~~:i::~~~~l~ neware tofirm, be andmerrr"d his businessinto the of all kinds. Steppler bought a 5 K\v. i plan of .the newly-founded uu outfit-a Univcrsa1 unit in which the 4- SHI!P CHANDLERY '""'""1!1g_ ·cylinder gasoline engine 'is direCtly-con concern ·will be called the llected to the D. C. generator.. Another Fisheries , Company, Inc.," installation of ,the same make, but of 930 STATE STREET n,,,d, ''"''·'· "It will be chartered under larger size, was the 120 Kw. set that SAN DIEGO State of Arizona. Head Stose ~recently sold to the "Enterprise." in San Diego, and much It al>;o is a -] 10-volt machine ~DC.. Telephone: Franldin 3652 nn'c artivitie< will center in Mexico." ' • are the object-Mexican lob - company will presently' pur t::hilse some vessel suitable to act as ten der ,toH1e camps. of native "langosteros'~ Luis M. Salazar thatjJ will find along the -\Vest Coast of SHIP BROKER . Baja- _California, southward towards Ab Unsurpassed Service to Fishing reojos .'Point. Boats AMERICAN -The- lobstering house \vill be backed by SAN DIEGO, CALIF. substantial inen, schooled in comr)etitive 306 MUNICIPAL PlER BUILDlNG FISHERIES CO. ""'""''", and having ·ample means with TELEPHONE MAIN 122S insure the sttc·cess of their un San Pedro Office Always Ready de<·taldn,g. P. A. Schilling will be presi ROOM 11, CABRILLO BLDG. G.- Schilling will be secretary PHONE 5094 :~:,~i~,~~'~ S. L. Cav:anatt!7h will be Yicc .. Two Automatic .Ice ·--.· and H. Daki'l will serve in the' . manager. Crushers imde;c;,,,~d that the firm has tenta for a _number of ambitious un The McCaffrey Co. Instant Service dec·t,;t,;n,;o in several of the fisheries' MARINE HARDWARE SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA New Fishermen's Wharf CENTRAL 311 WEST BROADWAY San Diego SHEET METAL Telephone Franklin 1715 WORKS C. E. Lewis, Prop. - THIS Home Owned and Operated Bank is ap- preciative of the Patronage 're.ceived from Fisher- I men and the Fisheries IndUstry. I ECllJ:R.Ir:I"'~ I Marine Worh a Specialty ;r!IA.Ii!.J!!iT & 11!!i~K. I Tin, _Sheet Iron, Copper and I Brass Work OF §Ad'lll DillE GO Main Office, S- W. Cor. Fifth Ave., llt E, San Diego, Calif. Phone Main 5405 BOat Tanks I 718 Front St., Cor. G BRANCHES SAN DIEGO, CAUFORNIA Fifth at University Ave., San Diego Chula Vista and Escondido 38 A. fi', P. A. Section Van Camp Organizations If It Swims We Have It Producers of The People's Fish Company Supreme Quality Sea Foods Producers and Distributors of LIVE AND COOKED LOBSTERS ALL KINDS OF CALIFORNIA SEA FOODS Texas Shipments Made Direct from San Diego Special auenlian to Hotels and Restaurants WIRE FOR PRICES 867 Harbor Street SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Especially LOBSTERS--Live and Cooked Fresh, Smoked, Shell and Fresh Water Fish in Season Telephones: Main 4158 and 4159 869 HARBOR ST. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. P. 0. Box 1205 Lawrence Oliver, Manager American Fisheries Co. Established 1908 Wholesale Dealers in and Shippers of H DAKIS, Proprietor Established 1914 SALTED, DRIED and PICKLED FISH Salted Barracuda, Yellowtail and Jewfish Lobsters in Season- Live and Cooked SAN DIEGO We Specialize in Fish Fertilizer aiUl Fish Oil Get Our Prices in Car-lots Before FISHERIES COMPANY Contracting Elsewhere Direct Wholesale Dealer in WlRE~ FOR QUOTATIONS B41 Harbor Street San Diego, Calif. FRESH SEA FOOD Our Specialty-Live and Coohed Lobsters Shipped Everywlzere Wire Us foi- Quotation-We Respect Standing Orders STELLAR FISH CO .. Telephone: Main _9698 K. 0. SHIMA, Manager Wholesale Fresh Fish and Lobsters 815 HARBOR ST. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. P. Q. Box 77 Specializing to the Japanese Trade--fully understanding quality of Fresh Fish desired especially Tuna, Yellow tail, Barracuda, Mullets, Seabass,, Etc. 825 HARBOR ST. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. STAR FISHERIES Prompt and Honest Try THE UNION FISH DISTRIBUTORS OF COMPANY FRESH FISH and LOBSTERS Established ]908 Direct Wholesale Dealers in Fresh and Salt Fish P. 0. Box 385 LOBSTERS-LIVE AND COOKED SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 825 HARBOR ST. SAN DIEGO, CALIF. ] UN E, W. C. F. 1 9 3 0 39 "HAPPY" IDTS ROCK You never saw such hungry sardines.:.... Sven Larson has had bad luck with the they came almost out of the water to gel ''Hat_)py," On 1viay 20, while groping at the ground theat." through thick fog at the entrance to San Live Bait_ Dtlla The Fisherman's Diego harbor, he ran her aground on the Bait is an item of chief interest with rocks off Point Lama. '\:Yard 1vas gotien the tunamen. VVithout it they cannot op ashore, and the Star & Crescent tug, erate to advantage; it is a piscatory sine Friend "-Golden \Vest/' came out to the rescue. qua non. No recounting of a yellowfin The towboat succeeded in 'PUtting lines expedition is complete without a discus ab'Oard the "Happy," aftt:r which it and sion of bait sources and the 'success had a -Coast Guard cutter put a strain on the with 1vhat \Vas taken aboard. - little boat >that finally pulled her off into "The last real sardine bait is at 1vl THIE S lUI IP I~ ILV HEA.DQUARTEI\.S FOR... NG BOAT SUPPLIES LOCATED ON FISH WHAn.f. SAN DI.EGO I PURE MANILA Never an Oiled Suit .Like ROPE Manufactured by I CAL!!FORNliA THORN FROST'S CORDAGE lneorporntcd "SUPERIOR" Los Angeles, CnJ. OILED CLOTHING Distributors HARBOR SUPPLY COMPANY Fishermen's Wharf, San Diego, Calif. Made for Life at Sea Phone Franklin 3208 -always oiletl the .way THE fishermen want tlzem! FISHERMAN GLOVE No. 642 rnnde IF YOUR DEALER giant size and _reversible With elastic wrist, , also Cannery Gloves in Light doesn't sell Frost's we weigbt·Japs1 boys' and ladies' sizes. want to know it. Send us b'is name and wc'l~ sec Seattle Glove Company that you are supplied~ SEATTLE, WASIIINGTON D. 0. Frost Corp. 15 Wharf Street FOR SALE-,-"The Chesapeake", 65 ft. length, GLOUCESTER, MASS. 1.6% H. beam. 60-h.p. Fairbanks-Morse Diesel Engine. Excellent Condition. Fully equipped for Tuna Fishing. For further particulars see H. L. Miller. GROCERIES Harbor Supply Co. HARDWARE SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA FISHING GEAR HARBOR Western States SUPPLY Grocery Co. COMPANY Wholesale Grocers Fishing Boat San Diego and El Centro, Calif. Supplies Buy ... Edison Mazda We Recommend SILVERGATE Lamps Fishermens Wharf - Canned Fruits-Canneil V egetahles~l Coast Electric Co. Franklin 3208 HARBOR SUPPLY CO. San Diego, California San- Diego, California SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA II JUNE, W. C. F. 1930 41" REfRBGERATING YOUR fiSH HOlDS By PAUL W. HILLER MISSION BELL :N last moUth's article 1.ve made men- i1ito dCtai1 about how this could be ob I tion of efficient operating conditions tained. PE'l'ROLEUM CO. in._ a refrigerating plant, witltout going Refrigeration' is nothing but the revers- BEVERLY S. COOPER, Mgr. ing of the natural law of heat. This law states that heat must flow from the hot Distributors of Western G At Fishermen's Wlrur/, Sun Diego, Culij-. THE UNION ICE c;OMPANY JUNE, 1930 43 Newport fishermen form Association Santa Cruz One of those versatile people ·who can RGANIZATION OF the Newport successfully follow two widely- -varied oc O Fishermen's Protective Association cupations is Fred Phillbrick of Santa Of Newport Beach, Calif., was ·effected Cruz. He is manager of the Danish Oil last month with an initial membership of Company \Vell north of Santa Cruz and l2S, representing .some 110 fishing boats. in his spare time operates his own launch J.--D. Jeanes of the boat "T.H.T." is pres as a commercial fisherman. Fred and ident. Slim Robertson of the "Bertha'' 11is brother, Ernest, started fishing for iS·. ·vice president and J. C Calhoun is salmon as a recreation two years ago. secretary-treasurer - They arc now numbered among the char · The association has leased a hall at the ter members of the Santa Cruz Com fciot of 'l'hirtieth Street where meetings mercial Fishermen's Association, suffi 181 SIEUART ST.• SAN FRANCISCO •••• i'IB AVALON BLVD.. 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JUNE, 1930 45 Ccipacity of Halfhill of -.Long BeaCh, Calif., is installing two Cohn-llopldns, Inc.-:, ·Plant Greatly Increased American Can Company vacuum dosing Enlarging Plant :,-'>-'; _VVith its plant increased in canning ca 1~1achines for use on half-pound and Cohn-Hopkins, li-te., San-Diego, Calif., <·: __,pacity b~ one-third, the Halfhill Packing quarter-pound tuna cans, according to E. fish packers are continuing_ their program .- -Corporatmn of Long Beach, Calif., is Giacomino, ·vice-president and lnari.iger. of enlarging their plant by installing new going into the summer season with ex Installation of these machines gives the cookers, new retorts, American Can Com , pectations of considerable activity ac company the honor of being the second pany vacuum closing machines and- a11 _cording to Charles P. Halfhill, secr~tary thus far to install them in the San Pedro other equipment that will practicaliy ' FRUITS-ASPARAGUS-VEGETABLES ARDEN SHAD ROE SALT COMPANY SAN. FRANCISCO Canneries at llfonlerey, Pittsburg, Centerville Specializing in all Industrial Grades of FRESH FISH SPECIALISTS SALT WHOLESALE and RETAIL Selling Agent Markets: San Francisco, Stockton, San Diego W. S. Craig Brokerage Co. GENERAL OFFICES: 923 E. Third St. LOS ANGELES 110 Market St., San Francisco Telephone- TRinity 828% 46 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES appreciated every day." Asked to exress his vie\VS on the cxM port trade in canned fi'sh products, the white-haired Captain was emphatic in his pronouncement of its satisfactory condi tion and improving prospects. "Bave any of the exporters lost?" he demanded, defying contradiction. "They take no chanccs-th~ bankers accept their bills-of-lading and hand them the cash there is no opporttulity for loss. Oh, it's a far better trade than the trade here in our o-wn country-there is ..Ulllch less risk in it." The peculiar advantages offered by for eign 11Hlrkcts and their attractiveness to those of conservative persuasion seem to C:APT. ROBERT DOLLAR W. F. MOORE CAPT, A. AHMAN Captain Dollar to insure a quick expan sion in the fish-product export trade of the '\Vest Coast. 1v[ore than half of the CAPTAIN DOLLAR DISCUSSES TRADE people in the wOrld are Our potential nmr ketJ he declares.-G. R. C. APTAIN ROBERT D 0 L LA R, a hard' and trying week, but despite his C grand old man of American marine 86 years of age, he determined on a tour shipping, head of the Dollar SteamshiP of the fish packing plants when his at 17th FOREIGN TRADE MEET Company and its associated group, of re tention was attracted to them by the· lated vessel operators, and the initiator blasts of their whistles calling the crews Los Angeles entertained leaders in in of the first around-the-world scheduled together. In company with VV. F. Moore, ternational .commerce from throughout steamship serviceJ was in atten!lance at general agent for the Dollar Line in the the world on lvlay 21, 22 and 23J when the the Foreign 'Trade Convention held in Los Angeles district, he called upon sev seventeenth national foreign trade con Los Angeles during the latter part of eral of the sardine, mackerel and tuna Yention 1vas held. Addresses dealing in 'May. The Captain 1vas a conspicuous canneries. Among those v-isited were the general with foreign trade conditions and personage during the proceedings, mak Southern California Fish Corporation and prospects were delivered by James A. ing three 'addresses before -the assem the Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc., both Farrell, president, United States Steel blages of business executives and trade large shippers of export fish products Corporation; William ·L. Cooper, direc experts as well as receiving itl private over the Dollar lines. At the latter. plant torJ Bureau of l"oreign and Domestic consultation many who sought his views the Captain 1vas received by Roy P. Har Com_merce, _\Vashington; R. J. Cromie, and counsel. per, who later returned aboard the S. S. pubhsher, Vancouver Sun, James C. H. No othCr· man in the nation enjoys a 11 President Fillmore" to lunch with him Ferguson, vice president, Holland-Amer position of authority in matters of trade and his party. ican Chamber of Commerce, San Fran and tcommerce comparable to that occu cisco; Dr. Neil Van,Aken, executive sec Previous to the departure· of the S. S. retary, the Netherlands Chamber of Com pied by this venerable shipping master. "President Fillmore"-aboard which Cap It is frequently recoUnted of him that in merce in New York, Inc.; Henry F. tain Dollar sailed for San Francisco Grady, Dean, College of Commerce, Uni the early days of his ventures 1vith ships representatives of the West Coast Fish he sometimes ·was confronted by a situa versity of California; Han. Henry K. eries elicited from him 'an appraisal of Chang, Chinese Consul-General, San tion where there 1vas nothing to haul be the results of the Foreign Trade Conven cause merchants were not buying. De Francisco, and others. tion, then only just completed. Interest of the fish industry was at tennined that nothing whatsoever should "I would say that the outstanding char stop the regular 'goings and comings of tracted to the sessions to suCh an extent acteristic of the meetings was the intense that mnny of the leading canners and his steamers, Dollar is said to he,ve gone interest manifested in foreign trade,'' said into the markets himself, bought goods brokers attended, including: M. ]. Bog Captain Dollar. 'It was a splendid gath danovich, Ed. Hoyt and Ingvard Martin, with ·which to fill his ships, sent them ering' of men-and of the right kind of across the ·world to China or to Europe French Sardine Company; U. D. Clark, or to India or to Amer.ica, and then men. Association of Pacific .Fisheries; Guy L. gone there with them to drum up a mar 'Only 20 years ago the people of the Duckworth, Fletcher, Wiest & Co.; S. R. ket for the merchandise, sell it, and thus United States were not interested in for Hornstein, Coast Fishing Company; N. recover Ids' capital that he might do the eign trade/' he continued. "But I al ]. Kuglis, General Fisheries Corporation; same again. It was through proceedings \vays have contended that every man and Ju1ius E. L-inde, Linde Packing Corpora of this kind that Dollar "learned the woman in America is concerned with for tion; 1vL A. Rex, Ventura Packing Corp.; game." eign tJ:ade either directly or indirectly. J, 1J. Rosen, Southern CalifOrnia Fish At five o',dock on ·Monday morning, \\Thy, to cite a common instance, where Corp.; Frank Van Camp, Van Camp Sea 1vfay 26, Captain Dollar >vas at the Los vwuld our people get the material for Food Co., Inc,; Gilbert C. Van Camp, A\~geles Harbor terminals used by his their silk stockings if 1ve did not bring Van Camp Organizations; H. ]. Half company, inspecting the condition of the them the silk from the orental countries? hill and C. P. Halfhill, Halfhifl Packing wharves and 1yarehouses. He had had These are truths which are being better Corp. If Your Customer Demands Quality-.-There is Only One Solution i Also Packers of CAL .. REY Brand Custom and Feature brands Custom House Packing Corporation MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA "The Sardine Port of the West Coast" California Sardines t ]DNE, 1930 47 Tlte 7'rerul of and any man who foretold the laying of that our vessds must be large enough ihe Tuna 100-foot .keels was deemed visionary or to follow them about, and to go where By the RESEARCH EDITOR \Yorse. ever they are when they are absent from Twelve months ago 100-footers had customary haunts. \Vhen every tuna Fishing industries are characteristical been built. T·hereafter a few with forti cruiser is equipped with wireless and a ly conservative. They make advances tude had courage to advance to the 115- competent operator, there will be no dif by halting progressions. '!"heir evolu foot mark, and finally to 121 feet. Now, ficulty in this. Someone is sufe to find tion is tedious, proceeding by finely recently, we have the announcement of the fish, and for the secret once to be graduated stages. They view the sug the proposed construction of two 140- out is to advise all the .fleet of it. gestion of rapid or complete changes footcrs, and the end is not yet. At pres But if the cruisers have so little· size -with as much consternation and mistrust ent, as ahvays, there· are doubters in that they have small fuel capacitY, it well is ·was evidenced by told Chief 'rhree legion. 1vfany believe that the limit of may he that they v.:ill be unable to reach Crows of the Cayuse Nations, who at practicability has already been far ex the distant grOunds where some pioneer first sight of a prairie schooner could ceeded, and one can even hear conserva among them telegraphs that he has not be· induced to approach the slowly tive souls cant that the SO-footer is the found the schools. 'l"here the big boat turning 1vagon wheel. "Big medicine," ideal boat. will have the exclusive advantage. lie said, "hy-yu cultus medicine." Not until more audacious young ·warriors of But the wise heads know better, and A man need 'be no seer to see how his band had run their-fingers around the foresee that soon we shall have not only things are going. Fifteen years ago chill metallic perimeter •of the steel tire 150-footers, but no doubt 200-footers and more albacore swam in the Catalina could the sage old chieftain be gotten perhaps even 250-footers as well. In Channel than conceivably could ever be close enough to see for himself that the deed, this· writer is confident that the canned. In those halcyon days bluefin, wagon wheel \vas harmless and was des opening of a new era in the history of skipjack and yellowfin were dispised and tined to be the greatest boon his tribes fishing is here, and that henceforward we unused by the packers of the white-meat men had known since the Spanish shall· no longer figure our vessel dimen sort. As popular demand responded to brought horses into the country. sions in terms of feet and inches, but the new "marine poultry" and albacore shall compute, catalog and compare became scarce, the other tunas .came into Two years ago SO-footers were thJought them on a basis of tonnage of fish ca favor. \Vhen these failed in ·supply, Van . to be big boats in the \Vest Coast tuna pacity. Camp and John Heston went to Turtle :.:;:··fishery. V\Then the 100-ton "\V. F. Bay and to Cabo San Lucas, in Mexico, '\Vood" was introduced into the fleet it \Ve "know our tuna." \Vhat we have for fish. Now our off-shore diesel ships ··was hailed as a signal event. Tlu;re were learned most emphatically is that they have gone on to the Revilla Giged.os in that time plenty of sceptics ready to habitually and characteristically gambol where, around Socorro Island, many croak a ·predicition of disaster for the all over the seven oceans. \Vhere they fares have been taken; then still farther plucky ones who sank fortunes of whole S\varmed in millions last \Yeek they ar·e _to· Clarion Island and to Clipperton. 'l"he life-time~' gathering into y·et larger Craft, entirely wanting today. The answer is chase has been lengthened until the boats have worked the shores of Guatemala, Nicaragua, IJanama and Ecuador. They have run out to Cocos Island and to the 'J'ortoise Group called the Galapagos. \Viii the progression to far points cease here? Certainly not. This is but the beginning, for all world travellers kno\v- that there are tunas in the seas off Portola Tuna Fiji, Australia, New Guinea, the south east Philippines, and all through the South Pacific insular gmups. These America's Sandwich grounds will be proven up. If they are found to be prolific, then big freighter type steel vessels· will enter the calling, and Salad Fish the mother-ship and deep-sea floating freezer idea will be merged to form a new sort of mobile fishing port, and 2,000 or 3,000 ton fares 1vill be brought into the cannery harbors for delivery to manufactories. Mergers of capital will ..finance operations on a scale that will make present modes and methods seem HAS NO HAS NO as trivial as the business of a mosquito fleet. EQUAL EQUAL The maxim is that while ther·e is tuna in any part of the oceans of the world in suflicient quantity to warrant exploita tion, someone will continue going there for that fish, just as whaling has been carried against the ice-caps of the polar Also Packers of PORTOLA SARDINES zones, into 'Waters beyond those known even i:o the old explorers. \Vhat we have thus far witnessed is but the prelude to a K. HOVDEN CO. world-wide development in which prob MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA ably other nations than our own ·will take part, for tuna is "\vorth many times more than ·whale. 48 THE JfiEST COAST FIS.HERIES tha·t for the past three years- he _has been stocking rainbow trOut to take the place of eastern brook trout .which were dis continued. Mr. Yorke is of the be1ief that rainbow trout will be the _comitlg lish for propagation, especially in the \Vestern states. "An -idea of the maxi mum- number of adult spa\'mcrs· 1Vhich can be maintained here annually could not be -arrived at for a few years to cotile," he declared. Only occasionally_ are fish -sold by 1.fr. Yorke for market, the main dependence being eggs and fry. \Vashington is the A view of picturesque Fish Like, near StryKer, chief market, although shipments have Montana, controlled by the Fish Lake Hatcheries, which was the subject of an article- on this page been ·made- to the eastern states and to last month. The lalce covers an area ·of approxi Japan one year with success. mately 45 acres and is of varying depths' to 42 feet. The upper half of Brook Lalce, Metaline Trout "I do not care to hazard an opinion The water seldom reaches a temperature above Farm, Metaline F_all,s, Wash. on troUt farming in general," said Mr. 45 degrees F. Yorke, "as I am unacquainted >Vith its The iHCtUline TroUt operation except as applying in this for inorc scientific siudv of fish cultural Farm hi Washington state and parts of Oregon, _ldaho and problems. There is need for more stand ardization of 'prices according to quality. Robert H. Yorke, owner and mani\ger Montana. I should say that .too many go into it without .enough investigation At thC present time trOut eggs seem to of the Metaline Trout Farm, at Metaliile be sold according to price and- not qual Falls, \Nash., has been in business at as to conditions, with the result that success cannot .be obtained. ity. Stocking a commercial farm with the sauie ·location fOr nearly eight years, fish from inferior _eggs is very expensive. and is optimistic of the future for that "Considerations vary so much ?.nd knowled'gc even among trout breeders is First-class eggs should command a prem particular .phase of the fish -business. ium price." Discussing ·the Metaline Troute Farm, so liinited that unless_ a person is natur ally fond of working with -fish and is * • * Mr. Yorke says: "The property consists Japanese Magnate inV. S. of 75 acres of heavily timbered rough willing to spend time ·and money ex perimenting, the business is a good one . Baron Murakami, uresident of the country on ·which there was an· eight Japanese Impeflal Fisheries Association acre, natural lake, which has been doubled to stay away from. On the other hand, I see no _reason why it should not be and head of one of the largest fishing ln size by the erection of a dam several and cold-storing cntcrprises·of the Celes years agO. '!'he lake is spring fed and a _gciod business if, first, phySical -cOndi tions arc approximately right and, sec tial Empire, ·was recently a -visitor in San in a limestone _formation. The water is Pedro. After an agreeable sojourn 1vith cold- and Very clear, the bottom being ond, enough trout can be _reared and reared _cheaply. George Ota, broker of the port, Baron visible on dear days at a depth of 28 Jv!urakami took train on a circuitous feet. There is ample vegetatiOn con "Here it vmuld not be profitable to , feed fish artificially as there is ·not an tour of the entire coritinent. sisting mostlY _of _chara moss, -milfoil, "I r:~ther anticipate his following the pond weed, and pond lilies. T'he natural abundant cheap supply -of fish food, so same route as that taken by Kojiro Abe food supply consists principally of fresh instead of trying- to raise large numbers and .Chisato Takahashi," said Ota ·on l\:ater shrimp which arc very abundant, of trout it -is the aim to maintain a small June 1 after the dep-arture of his guest. er number of adult brood stock. The dragon fly, damsel fly, mayfly nymphs ''He \Viii probably not be here again until and adult flies, snails, leeches, frogs and -business should prove better and better several months have passed." a plankton which the writer has never as time goes on and present hapzard Baron Murakami is known as one of heard of much in connection with fish fish cultural methods and marketing are Japan's most prolific 1vriters ori prac culture corethra._ The latter is a free improved.'' tical cnnunercial fisheries. He is a man swimming insect and is fo_und- -in all In 1{r. Yorke's' opinion, "the aPsence 1vho knows the industrY thoroughly both -depths of__ water_ here and is ve-ry nUiner of atiy great number ·of suitable -loca from the. theoretical .and pt;dagogic stand ous. '!'he fish obtain their own food tions for fish farming on a large scale point and that of atl actual -business man. supply the year_ around." will serve as a check to a possible over Some years ago he was the head of the QUestioned regarding the number of crowding in the business. ·Indeed, it is Imperial Japanese College of Fisheries, ti·out he raises e Canned Crab-Meat TROUTt Eastern Brook, Lock Leven, Exclusive Dealers· of Dlnclt Spotted,_ Drown Trout, Rainbow. BANDON SPECKLED. TROUT Eyed -Eggs, Fry, Fingerlings, Matured Your Business Solicited Trout. Prices Quoted on Request BLUE MOUN'l'Al!N 'l'RO'U'l' IF ARM Coast Fisheries THOS. YOUNG, Owner MARKET TROUT OUR SPECIALTY REEDSPORT OREGON Pendleton, Orc~:on JUNE, 1930 49 Fishy and Otherwise n E. BAYNE, prominent wholesale W. KLEIN, -president of the Ne ISMARCK HOUSSELS, vice presi \:.::.1_. grocer of Sioux City, Iowa, visited H • halem Bay F i.s h C.om pan y, B dent of Van Camp Sea· Food Inc., Cannery J(ow, 'Terminal Island, May 10, \Vheeler, _Oregon, received the popular left his office at Terminal Island, Califor d.l~ing· on his old friend Ed. Burch, sales nomination for commissioner of the port nia, for VVashington, D. C., Thursday, manager of the Franco-Italian Packing of N ehalent at the May pri_maries. More 1-!ay 15, to ailend a -meeting of the board COrporation. Mr. Bayne stated his mar power to Klein and the Port of Nehalem. of directors of the N Dt~orlorizer 7'estetl tll the ocean· 200 miles off shore from San Canners JJ7in. "Tin Scm Curlos Plnnt Pedro·to Monterey, The proposed cruise Can" Rate Ca.~e will take the new patrol boat "Bluefin" Although the sardine season is closed, 'CANNERS IN TH£ San Pedro, well into the warm, souilnvard-moving Calif., area are victorious in their through special permission, 20 tons of the California Current, a branch of the J apa small fish ·were run through the Sau Car <~tin can" rate case held before Commis nese Current, which extends about. 50 to sioner \V. P. Geary of the .State Railroad los reduction plant at 1vlonter:ey, Calif., 100 miles off the North Pacific Coast on the morning of Jv!ay 28 to test a de Commission on Apiil 22, according to a from British Columbia to Baja Califor decision just announced. As a result, odorizing apparatus recently installed by nia. Il is thought by some people closely the San-I-Vent Corporation. Results rates on cans from the factory to the connected with the sardine industry that canneries is reduced from ten cents to were pronounced as inconclusive and the this fish may sPawn in the California State Fish and Game Commission is to eight ents per hundi-edweight. This sav division of the Japanese Current, and ing of 20 per cent will aggregate many be asked for a permit for another 20 tons Scofield intends to ascertain whether or for a se.cond test. thousands of dollars for the canners over not these theories are true. a period of a year. The plan is to conduCt another te;:;t This is illustrated by the figures cited under the worst possible conditions, with Mexican Eggs hy one packer alone, showing that from rotten fish and burning meal, to deter January 30, 1928, to March 27, 1930, mine the extreme possibilities of the de \Vonderful progress has been made so 21,222,227 pounds of cans were shipped vice, it being the belief that the first test far this season and many ·new habits of to the packing house at a freight cost did not provide the machine with enough the sardine have been learned. Early in 1 of $21,222.53. This huge amount of cans odor to do away with. April the patrol boat ' Albacore," in required 884 railroad cars. On the basis Plans for the next try-out call for hold search of spawn, \Vent into lv[exican wa of these figures, a saving of over $4,000 is ing the fish for five or six days before the ters as far south as Cape Colnett, where effected bv the new rate. test, and then burning the meal and oth eggs and lan•ae were found in profusion The complaiti.t against the old rate \\'aS envlse trying hard to make a smell. If 10 miles west of the 1cape. This trip ex tended the· well known spav.ming area filed by the French· Sardine Company, that test is as successful as the former Van Sea I+'ood Co., Inc., Stewart Curtis one the San-1-Vent •vill be pronounced a from ?vfonterey, California, to Cape Col Packers, Inc.,. Southern California Fish success by Man terey 1c.ity officials. nett, Mexico. How far off shore this Corporation, Italian Food Products ·Co., spawning area may continue is not Boiler temperature •vas boosted up to Inc., and the Coast Fishing Company, known, but with the new "Bluefin" in these canners being joined later by the 178 degrees at the very end of the test, commission, Scofield hopes to determine burning the meal. Under ordinary con California Packing Corporation and the precisely the- boundaries within which the General Fisheries Corporation. Those ditions, without deodorization, that would sardine lays its eggs. have produced a smell, but ·with the San appearing at the hearing were: R. P. I-Vent control odor was imperceptible. Harper, Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc.; Angelo Lucido, president of the San Mackerel Also Ingvard Martin, French Sardine Com Carlos Canning· Company, is pleased with pany; J- 1L Rosen, Southern California Accompanying Scofield on the coming Fish Corporation; Miss Norma Knight, the results of his experiment, as is A. A. expedition will be Milton J. Lind_ner, who Bonzagni, inventor of the process. has charge of. the early life-history prob General F-isheries Corporation; L. R. Bonzagni explains the process as fol lem of the mackerel, an important inves Keith, California Packing Corporation and Don Harner, Stewart Curtis Packers, lows: Centerain electric units manufac tigation no1v being undertaken by the J nc. The packers were represented by ture a gas called HH02. The fumes from California State Fisheries Laboratory. Attorneys B. H. Carmichael, F. W. Tur the reduction plant are 1captured and con Lindner ·will make tows for eggs anJ cotte and ]. P. Quigley. J. E. Lyons, San densed and from the corldenser they go larval mackerel throughout the trip, and Francisco, was attorney for the Southern to a mixer, where they are neutralized ·by expects to return with much valuable in HH02. The· new gas, similar to air, is Pacific Aailroad; Attorney E E. Bennett formation concerning this species. represented the Union Pac1fic and then released into the air, minus smells, J. L. of course. · Love of the traffic department, and * * * Charles Adams, assistant general freight agent, Los Angeles, were present for the * * * Storin Damages Santa Fe. S(lrtline Eggs Founcl Fishing Boats • • * Gilbert Bell ()IJ Pt. Conception Due to a heavy blow hitting the vi Passes Awuy f cinity of lvfonterey, Calif., and San Pedro, IJ.'he California sardine spawning sea Calif., during the week of May 4, fish Gilbert Clyde Bell, 56, a director and son is now in full swing and E. C. Sco ing boats were damaged to a consider vice president of the Halfhill . Packing field, biologist for the Bureau of Com able extent. At 1v1onterev, two boats Corporation of Long Beach, Calif., for mercial Fisheries, has been making good were washed. ashore, as the-· heavy north many years, passed away at his home in headway in determining the extent of the west vdnd turned into a gale on lvfay 6 San Pedro, Calif., 011 May 16. Mr. Bell spa1vning area. Recently on a trip to and heavy seas endangered the entire had been a resident of San Pedro for 27 Point Conception an abundance of eggs fishing fleet of the bay. years. He was a prominent banker and and larvae were secured miles 1vest of 30 11 was connected 1vith may civic enterpris the headland. 'l'his marked the first oc The Kikumi," \vas badly hit, although es. Funeral rites were held at the First casion that eggs and larvae of the sardine not a total loss. She is a 25-foot. craft Methodist Episcopal church, San Pedro, .. ·. have been taken at such. a distance from owned bv I. Takaga1va, used in the fresh on 11ay 19. land-an important discovery, as it indi · fish tradC, and hit the beach behveen the * • * cates the possibility of the fish spawning munic-ipal wharf and the bathhouSe at "Rainbow" Off still farther out to sea. The spawn •verc Del Monte after breakitlg her mooring for lllexico found in great numbers in a patch of line. Further up the coast, G. Enea's Anton Cordich, undaunted by t~1e r~- <' water that was a few degrees wanner lampara boat 258B went aground. ports from boats returning to Caltfor!1l3. :·, than any of the neighboring areas, a·nd At .Santa lvfonica, Calif., the "Asia," cmpty-lmnded from 1v1exico last mont}\:. Scofield thinks that the increased temper small fishing boat operated by Fred headed his new "Rainbow" south again< ature may have induced the fish to spawn Henderson, lost a rudder and bitts, the on Mav 19. IJ.'he exact destination is not there. damage amounting to about $150. The settle{( and vdll depend upon conditions.... ': Follo1ving the 1vann -water- spawning "Lily," tender for a fishing barge off found by Capt. Cordich, according to.":.:: beliefs, an expedition has been planned \Vhite Point, Calif., operated by K. Endo, S. P. Stamhuk, ship broker at San Pedro,,:;: for the middle of June that will scour was a total loss. Calif. C·j.c JUNE, 1930 5.J CAtlF Macherel Eggs ner has been classifying all of the other erel problem. Donald H. Fry and Rich Discovered kinds of eggs that have been caught in ani S. Croker are solving the difficulties \Vest Coast mackerel packing has ex the tow nets. Thus far he has been able concerning the age, rate of growth, food. perienced so stupendous and sudden a to identify the eggs of six different va possibilities of the supply withstantling growth within the last twenty months rieties of fishes, namely: macketel, sar the strain of fishing, and the gear and that the permanence of the supply of raw dine, bonito, northern anchovy, barra methods used in catching this aquatic material in this species has become a cuda, and flying fish. As the investiga animal. matter of deep and lively interest with all tion progresses the spawning beds of cannery and fish men. Heretofore abso most of our commer;cial fishes will prob * * * lutely nothing has been known of the ablv be located-discoveries which will be Hueneme Plant Finds breeding and habits of Pacific mackerel, of Unlimited value to future -inquiries into Sardines Easily Available the whole subject being aptly described the mysteries of sea life. The Ventura Packing Corporation, as a "mystery." For the first time in the Jvf ackercl fishing has had a phenomenal which opened its pl2.nt at Hueneme, history of fishery investigations in Cali growth; is now second only to the s<~.r Calif., last fall, during the past season fornia the eggs of mackerel have been dine in amounts landed at California found sardines easily available just off found in the waters of the \Vest Coast. ports. In 1927, 5,000,000 pounds were shore and the boats had no difficulty in Two mackerel egg,, the first ever captured, ·while in 1929 the catch jumped landing them, states M. A. Rex, Los An taken, were secured ten miles off Point to 58,000,000 pounds-an increase of 1160 geles, sales manager of the company, Arguello by 1,Iilton J, Lindner, who is per cent in two years. This astounding which is nO\V getting its plant in readi making a study Qf the mackerel spawning gro\vth has resulted from the opening of ness for the fall season. H. S. Stafford, grounds for the California State Fisher mackerel canneries in ·Southern Califor general manager, is now at Hueneme su ies Laboratorv. These t\vo eggs -..vere nia. pervising the general overhauling activ taken in a net .. which he towed behind the ;l'he California State Fisheries Labora ity. patrol boat "Albacore," 50 feet b_elow the tory, under the directorship of VV. L. Sco 1vfr. Rex declares that often last season surface, during its latest trip to Port San field, has been quick to appreciate the it was possible to look out of the window Luis. Identification of the eggs was ef value to the packing industry and to the of the cannerv and see the fishing boats fected when Lindner compared them with people of the state, of our supplies of circling the Schools of small fish with ripe ova taken from a mackerel about to native mackerel. It inaugurated an in- their nets. \Vhen the fish were farthest spawn. In dimensions they were nearly . vestigated into the life history of this away from shore it ·was, comparatively, 1/20 of an inch in diameter and they had fish even before its utilization by the can but a short run to find them. Because of · an oil globule of about 1/100 of an inch. ners had attained a maximum, delegating the close supply of raw material, it was TheSe were the same dimensions as those three of its staff to the business of find onlv necessarv to have five boats in serv of the ripe ova, and they corresponded ing out all of the hidden facts relative to ice -to supply ·the cannery with fish. doselv to measurements made on the its abundance and rapidity of replenish Landing of the fish, which seemed to eggs Of Atlantic mackerel. ment. Lindner has been detailed to cover be the only problem at the outset of op Lindner attributes the taking of only the egg and larval stages of the study, erations at Hueneme, proved simple and two eggs to the fact that the spawning and is the man who has to go out to sea only one load of fish all season was it f:tason was just beginning at the time of to carry on the hunt for the spa·wning impossible to put ashore, according to the Port San Luis trip on 1viay 16. On grounds and hatching areas from -..vhich Mr. Rex. In this instance a storm pre •tht:: nt;>xt cruise he expects to find egg;; are to come the supplies .of raw material vented the landing of the catch. mure abundant and he hopes to capture with which our canning manufactories It is not thought likely by 1vir. Rex that a few young larvae. will, in future, be kept busy. the company 1-vill pack any tuna at the All Sorts of Eggs Besides Lindner, the laboratory has Hueneme plant, but it is planned to pack Incidental to the mackerel work, Lind- two other biologists tackling the mack- mackerel. this summer. Quality Made Our Brands Famous VAN CAMP SEA FOOD CO .. 'l lne.. Terminal Island, California, U.S.A. General Fisheries Long Beach Salt Co. Corporation. "The Dependable Salt" Sardines and Mackerel DIRECT FROM OUR PLANT TO YOU WESTERN SAIL'!' CO. CANNERS Long Beach, Cnlifornla Rewashed Coarse Salt All grades crude and refined salt fol" the P. 0. Box 993 San P(~dro, Cnlif. Fishing Industry SAN DIEGO, CALIF. 52 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES I :1\\"'------=------__:::.-----·~~LlfOR lA SARDlNES~ I' First l'tmr Successful /or a surprise to present to the trade this mult to the industry by the cant:~·rs as I Custom House Pncln'ng Corp. coming season," declared the sales mana a \\·hole cooperating in instructive adver- ~~ "Our ilrst year of operations has been ger, although he did uot go into detail tising and educating the plJl:llic to usc our very successful and we h;we established regarding what this surprise would be. sardines telling them what a wonderful product we are oiiering at such a small our three brands, namely our "Cal-H.ey," :.\fr. Christo believes that the sardine 1 "Custon1," and "Feature" brands, on market is \'erv encouraging and states price anU such a big value. It will be no every market of any importance both in that stocks in \varehouses at·e fast dimin time at all after the canners do start ad the United States and ishing. Consumers have vertising that they will have a pack twice abroad, and we arc very begun to realize that Cal the amount they are packing no\V, and grateful to say our 1cttS ifomia sardines packed still not be able to supply the demand" ton1ers are verv much under the new process to again quote 1vir. Christo. ' pleased with otlr prod are wholesome products Although altogether unsolicited, :tvir. uct," reports George J. - SARDINE CANNERS ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA OFFICERS I Frank Van Camp, President, Terminal Island. B. D. I\'Iarx Greene, Vice-President and General l\Inn- E. S. W nngenheim, First Vice-President, San Francisco. ager, Sun Francisco. H. A. Irving, Second Vice-President, San Fr:mcisco. P. A. Ford, Sccrctary-Treasurel', San Francisco. DIRECTORS H. G. Maxson; F. E. Booth Co., Inc., Sun Francisco. S. R. Hornstein, Coast Fishing Company, Wilmington. Frank Van Crunp, Van Camp Sea FOod Co., Inc., Tcr~ K. Hovden, K. Hovden Co., lUonterey. minnl Island. Ed A. Hoyt, French Sardine Compnny, Inc., Terntinul E. S. Wangcnheirn, Carmel Canning Co., 1\'Ionlerey. Island. W. F. Wood. Soutltern California Fish Corporation, H. A. Irving, Sea Pride Packing Corp., Ltd., San Fnm Terminal l~land. cisco. E. B. Gross, E. B. Gross Canning Co., l\Ionterey. Address AU Correspondence to the Office of the Vice-President and General Manager 1603 Alexander Bldg. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA I JUNE, 1930 53 I s Salmon Subject of history; the five species e;1.ch haYing its ior sc\'eral important things, such as be Cunners' Rmlio Program o·wn peculiarities. ing rich in essential proteins, or tissue A general talk on the salmon canning building and replacing material, as well I "The object of our salmon canning ex as in fat or oil, a great source of energy ' industry and the use of canned salmon in peditions is to intercept some of these the home was given by Dr. Ernest D. rctuming salmon when they are in prime and heat for our bodies. The food value. expressed in calories compares very fa Clark for the Pacific Coast radio broad condition. That is just as they are about cast committee of the National Canners' vorablv with other foods like meat to leave the ocean and enter their natal chicke;l, etc. Also, and thi5 is most im~ Association, through the San Francisco stream-then they arc plump, rich in uil studio of the N a tiona! Broadcasting portant, several of the essential mineral and delectable in flavor. The reason thcv elem.ents like calcium, phosphorus and Company, 1.fay 1. The program, one of have stored in their bodies so much el{ a series by the national association, was trgy in the fonn of oil and muscle tissue iodine are present in notable quantities. Salmon is an excellent source of that ele transmitted not only from Station KGO is that they have to fight their way up ment, iodine, for which there is no· sub in Oakland, but also from Station hundreds of rapids and make extraordi~ K01viO in Seattle, and from five or six stitute. \Vithout the certain, minute, re nary leaps over 5eemingly impassable quired amount of iodine, the human body other leading stations west of the falls, even going 2200 miles from the Rockies. cannot develop or maintain itself nor ocean to the headwaters of the mightv mally, and various serious disturbances. The complete text of the talks, which Yukon. No wonder we call them 'oii burners'! result. Canned salmon is therefore a val was entitled "Salmon, the Silver Treasttre uable addition to our diet, which is fre of the North Pacific," follows: "You have already heard that there ;tre quently too limited. It brings the flavor '~Almost any day no-.,y you may see the five distinct species of our salmon, Yary of the sea and its health-giving qualities salmon fleet leaving for Alaska, either ing greatly in size, color of flesh, and to om table. \Vhether used directly from ·white-winged sailing vessels or the having other distinguishing marks. And the can as cocktail, salad, or sandwich prosaic, but more eflicient steamers. even after canning, in plants where sani spread, or as the basis of innumerable Often the ice-bound \Vaters of Bering tation and automatic machinery reign su delicious cooked dishes, there i5 a kind Sea are their destination, or, again, the preme, making it almost unnecessary for well adapted for each purpose and to suit island-studded waters of Southeastern people tn touch the salmon, each of these any pocketbook. Salmon is indeed the. ·Alaska. In any case, it is the "silver different species is still easily recognized king o.f food fish!" treaSure" of our most northern territory by certain characteristics, such as, color, that these expeditions, like those of the texture, flavor, size of bone, and so forth. * * * Nothing is added during canning except V. S.-Cunuda Salmon Vikings of old, arc seeking. This treas Pact Sigm~tl ure, in the form of the flashing silver salt for seasoning. bodies of the salmon, when canned, had ''The largest of the Salmons is known Brief dispatches from \Vashington, a value of nearly $-15,000,000 in 1928 in as the king, chinook or spring. \Vhen D.C., state that a pact between Canada Alaska alone. Compare that valuation canned its flesh is rich in oil but mav and the State Department was signed on .-with the $15,000,000 ·worth of gold, cop vary in color from bright red to a pinl~. :Afay 27 for the sockeye salmon fishery per and other minerals produced in Its flavor is very good. As a rule it (lff the \Vest Coast of \Vashington and Alaska in the same year. 1viuch of the should be used for salads where color is British Columbia. The agreement pro romance and hazard of the gold-rush important r :Sebastian-Stuart Fish Co. Snwhetl Shod S. D. Pacl>.ing Co. Begins .a Large, Northwest l)roducer from Oregon Dry-Salting Barracuda The Sebastian-Stuart Fish Company, Shad, once, as far as the west coast was Portuguese and Spanis~ expert fish -with headquarters at Seattle, VVash., in concerned, an exclusive California prod salters have been engaged by _the San ·corporated in 1917, in a modest \vay, has uct is becoming quite a factor in Ore- Diego Packing Company to mstitute for :grown to be one of the outstanding pro go~'s fishing industry. · them a fish-Kuring department. \Vork I •duccrs in the northwe:;t of not only milcl \Vith the production increasing every had already commenced by the third cured salmon, but of canned salmon and year in Oregon, marketing the catch in week in May, and daily receipts of raw f r c s h, frozen a profitable manner is becoming a prob stock were expected after ~by 25. _and s m o k c d lem with Oregon dealers as it is now "\Ve are making use of our unloading Jish. with California producers. facilities, wharf, dressing tables, brine C. ]. Sebas Pointing the way for other shad pro tanks and other general cannery equip tian, secreiary ducers to follow for another avenue to ment," states A. H. Haake, in charge of -.treasurer, gell market this delicious fish, the Coast Fish the office of the widely known packing I +eral manag·er eries Company of Reedsport, Oregon, an concern. "\Ve have at our disposal plenty ;and the princi nounce smoked shad sides as an addition of vats, ample room under roof, and large pal owner of to their line of fishery products. open aren.s on our outdoor platforms ·the company, Manv smokers have had considerable where the fi·sh 1can be dried." rem in i sci. difficulty in producing a satisfactory qual In discussing the relative advantage of ·upon the earl:'!; ity of smoked shad but the Coast Fish drying fish in San Diego harbor as -d a y s, s a y s: e;ies Company seems to have solved against doing the same work at Turtle ·"T hi 5 c 0 111 _ C. ]. SEB.--1.STIAN whatever problems existed very satisfac Bay, ?v[agdalena Boy or elsewhere in pany was in- torily as their product appeals to the eye 1{exico, Haake savs that it has been ·corporated in June, 1917, in a very mod and is good to eat. The sides are mar demonstrated that {he local product is of est way, the amount of cash being paid keted in twenty-five pound cartons, each superior quality, it being supposed that in being only $30,000. To begin- with sidt: wrapped in glazed paper. the excessive heats of the far southern it had no business, but has built up to a * * * locations softens the fish baore dehy -point to ·where it is doing very close to Weslt!rn Brunell National dration is complete. two million per year, antl may this year Canners Assn. League illeets Considerable quantities of yellowtail exceed that amount." Though the· \Vestern Branch of the and sea bass already have been salted in At the time of incorporation, lvir. Se National Canners Association has been the rye1v department of the San Diego bastian was secretary and manager and organized for the last four years, the Packmg Company. Low prices on barra has continued in that office. Capt. Har f1rst meeting was held on !viay 2 in the cuda resulted in the commencement of -ry Stuart, who died about five years ago, laboratory buildirig at 322 Battery Street, the operations on that species; it is ex was assistant manager until the time of San Francisco. pected that jewfish also will be handled. "his death. Mrs. Harry Stuart holds the Dr. ]. R. Esty, Director of the West~ honorary office of president, but is not ern Branch and head of the laboratory, New Saltery ul * * * -active in the business. submitted a report on the work clone '.:he Newport Beach, There has been no change in the cap 1~ast four years, showing the great in Paul Bakoti!Cl1 of Newport recently ac italization since organization of the com cn·a:,e in problems presented to the lab quired a leasehold in one end of the pany, states lv[r. Sebastian, ·with the ex oratory by members of the Association, Turck & Nicholson cannery, where he ception that at present there is a surplus the laboratory today handling five ti:nes has installed himself with the avowed of close to half a million dollars. The as n:uch work as in the first year of its purpose of putting the famous old port stockholders arc at the present time: existeuce. The problems of the indw:;try on the map as a salt fish center. Balm Joseph A. Rich, of Boston, 1-Iass., 1-.frs. were discussed in the meeting and a pro tiel~ _\\:ill devote the _greater part of his Harry Stuart and C. J. Sebastian of Seat gram for the following year outlined. acttvthes to the busmess of putting up tle, with Mr. Sebastian havinrr the bulk Quarterly reports on the progress of the the larg-e, hand-caught mackerel that ,of the stock. work in the laboratorv are to be sent to abound in his locality but he will also The Sebastian-Stuart Fish Company eac:h member; also it {\'as decidr:.d tu have handle bonito and produce a fency pack controls and operates the De·wey Fish an annual meeting of the mem!)ers, the of fine, salted anchovies. Being reputed Company, which is a producer of salmon d;!·.c of the meeting being set to follow an expert in his line, and with consider -on Pugct Sound. "Our business," states the annual convention of the Cann~r's able experience behind him, the outcome Mf. sebastian, "consists of the produc League. of. the anch~n'Y ~alting is being awaited tion of salmon, canning of salmon and "!'hose present at the meeting v:ere: w1th. much .nnpa~tence by many who ap the n1erch:wdising- of fn~-sh, frozen, smok- C. E. Hume, President, National Can precwte thts deltcacy pmperly prepared. ed and salt fish. - \Ve also produce about ners Association. 111 16 Preston ?vicKinney, Laboratory Com A Proud • 1600 casks of mild cured salmon per Papa ;;;cason. mittee. Ralph Galante, of the fishing boat "No~ "Our business has been growing stea Dr. K. F. ~Jcycr, Director Hoor,c-r Foundation. pili,'' at San Pedro, Calif., is a proud dily, with each year showing an increase. P.apa, a son weighing seven pounds and This compan)' is not affiliated in any :G. S. Clark, Laboratory Committee. R. S. Sanborn, Laboratory Commit':ec, s1x and one-half ounces having been born "\\'aY with any selling organization either Dr. E. D. Clark, Association of Pacific to :.\[r. and 1-frs. Galante on :May 8. The on· the Atla;1tic Co~tst. middle west or young son ·was named Jerald Galante, Pacific Coast. Fi:;hcries. B. E. 1-Ialing-, Association of \Alcst Can and christening- ceremonies will be held "\Ve U\Yll and operate about ten of our ners. in the near future. own boats. and, of course, charter a , E. :.\.f. Dur_ro;-vs, Association \Vest A New 111 ;~; ;;; number of others. mnst of these vessels Canner:; Assoc1atwn. l-ldr being pcrwered with diesel engines.'' J. Barber, Utah Canners Association. :Mr. and Mrs. Jerald Cigliana of San In addition. 1\{r. Sebastian is person Paul Parrish, Southern California Can Pedro, Calif., became the proud parents ally the owner of a 40~foot cruising ners Association. on April 24 of a. baby bov weighing yacht, the ":\.farne", on which he spend:; H. E. :\IacConaughey, .Hawaiian Pine- seven pounds. The young .s~1~1 rtnd- heir much of his time during the summer, apple Association. has heen named Anthony John Ciglian;-~. visiting canneries and other !i.shing enter F. E. Booth, California Sardine Assn. Mr. Cigliana is connected with the Los prises in which he is interested through L. Cooper, Caliiornia Oli\·e Assn. Angeles Fish & Oyster Company of Los out the North Pacific. Dr. J. R. Esty. Angeles. I I JUNE, 1930 55 I ILE Cc£rl E. Relm Nametl Fish Manager sists of a period of employment with the· at JJ7retlen l'acldng Co. Ne\v Fisheries and Cain & Company oc Carl E. Rehn, '.vho has been in the fish, Cincinnati. In 1922 he toured the \Vest poultry and meat business all his life, is ern portion of the country and studied I the new manager of the fish and poultry operatiOns at state hatcheries. department of the \Vreden Packing & This experience, says Mr. Rehn, has Provision Company, Los Angeles, Calif. taught him always to stress quality, in For those who do not know Mr. Rehn, which policy he is rigid at the \Vredcn \Yho has been in the \Vest only five years, Packing & Provision Company. The let it be said that he is a young, tall, company is now making a drive on Beeco good-looking (married) man, highly en haddock and in addition is stressing nu thusiastic over the fish business, and with merous specialties, including: trout. I a wealth of broad and comprehensive ex perience in the merchandising end of the * * * business. \Vhcn Mr. Rehn came to \Vredens two Fish Available and one-half years ago he was assigned to Rewilers to the sales division. He was so success A calendar of fresh fish varieties avail· ful that he ·was transferred at his own re able to the retailers in Southern Cali quest to the fish and poultry division, in fornia is published herewith through the which he ·was most interested. courtesy of C. 1L Small, manager of the It was said that Mr. Rehn has been in Van Camp Organizations. the trade all his life, but actually his ex In season: Barracuda, local halibut, perience purveying fish and fowl didn't local sea bass, yellowtuil, rock cod, red begin until he \Vas nine years old. His snappers, tuna, bonita, white fish, island father, of the older school of St. Louis, smelts, jack smelts, kingfish, soles, sand Mo., settlers. br::lir:ved in the boys getting dabs, devil fish, jumbo crabs, kippered up at four or five o'clock in the morning CARL E. REHN black cod, gray cod, large rock bass, kip and. learning something about the busi pered herring, finnan baddies, frog legs, ness, as 'Yell as helping to earn their when he grew older the habit stayed with filet of haddies, scallops, Alaska shrimp, Salt. J n- this exacting- school Mr. Rehn him. Southern shrimp, halibut, salmon, fillet of learned not to be afraid of work and Some of his f1sh-tr Van Camp rganizations• • Fre§h Food Producer§ and Di§tributor§ Southern CaHfornia1§ Large§t and Mo§t Complete Service ... Main Plant: SAN PEDRO PHONES: San Pedro, 2680 Los Angeles, DRexel 5100 San Diego, Main 4490 56 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES FIS 1.fassa and Jack Deluca. \Vith the rapid development of the business, however, it ·was deci-ded in N ovember1 1929, to dis solve partnership. 1-fr. f1duca thereup on became the 0\Vner of the Los Angeles plant, which -..vas opened in 1928, and Mr. Di Massa retained the San Pedro nm nicipal fish wharf plant. Mr. Di Massa began his career in the fish business in San Pedro in 1914 with one small truck. He soon \vent into bus iness with Vince Di 1vieglio in the Ocean Fish Company, and some time later was a party to the organization of the Independ ent Fish Company. The Los Angeles Fish & Oyster Com pany of San P-edro is one of the largest operators on the municipal fish wharf, employing nine persons and operating four trucks. The company handles all varieties of fresh, frozen and smoked fish, In center, Joe Di Massa, proprietor d the Los Angeles Fis-h & Oyster Co,, San Pedro; left, Frank Glyn, -not to mention salami, says Joe, Sales manager; and right, Jack Di Meg1io, manager of the Newport Beach branch. shipping them, as before stated, to all points in the \Vest. The personnel in & cludes Mr. Di Massa as principal owner NEW L A. FISH OYSTER CO. PlANT and general manager, Frank Glyn as AVING COMPLETED negotiations the catches of nearly 100 fishing boats sales manager and Miss Jennie Deluca as H during the past month for a new of all sizes. The fish is trucked to the bookkeeper. wholesale fish receiving station at N e·w San Pedro plant of the company, from port Beach, the Los Angeles Fish & where it is distributed wholesale through .Oyster Company of San Pedro, Calif., out California, Arizona, Ne·w Ivfexico and announces expansion of its operations along the entire \Vest Coast. to the southward. The new plant will Jack Di 1feglio, ·who is a part owner CODFISH DEEP SEA BRAND COD STRIPS give the company three times as much in the LOs Angeles Fish & Oyster Com DEEP SEA BRAND 2-LB. COD BLOCKS housing space as formerly, as well as es pany, having worked for lvfr. Di Massa BRISTOL BRAND t~LB. COD TABLETS tablishing a buying plant at a strategic since the former was a boy, is manager BRISTOL BRAND COD MIDDLES location on the Southern California coast. of the Ne·yvport Beach house. The plant 'f'he new plant is located on Thirtieth is a large, two-story building with ample IHAILLIARD & SCIIIHIEDELL Street, Ne·wport Beach, directly on the cold box and other facilities, and, should 947-53 East Fonrlh St. ·waterfront, according to Jo-e Di Massa, the need arise, a freezer will be in Los Angeles, Calif. proprietor of the Los Angeles Fish & stalled. In fact, lvlr. Di 1vfassa states Agents Oyster Company.- The receiving station, the company may carry on salting, freez formerly kno·wn as the Cooper plant, has ing and smoking operations at Newport. 1-- been operated by several firms during The plant is in an excellent location to -- the past few years. receive all kinds of fish abounding in Arcadian Sea£ood. The Newport Beach Branch is used the Southern California waters, particu exclusively as a buying station, states larlv individual-size rock bass and jack Company 1vfr. Di Massa. It is already handling smelts. FISH, SHRIMP, OYSTERS, Exceptional Growth CRABS, TURTLE, ETC. The Los Angeles Fish & Oyster Com 501-527 Napoleon Avenue J. R. Burltc Collier H. Buffington pany has had an exceptional growth since New Orleans, Ln. its establishment five or six years ago, Orders Shipped to Any Part of the due to the energy of the two partners United States \Vho organized it at that time, Joe Di Gold Beach Packing Company Wholesale Distributors of FRESH SALMON, HALIBUT, BLACK COD, LING COD, flETCHER WI[SJANoCO. ROCK COD AND SMELTS -~MERCHANDISE BROKERS ...... PHONES Rush Ortlers to Our Eurelw, CABLE ADDRESS CALPACK CODE California, Brancl1 ARBAR MUTUAL 5277 AllMSBV CODE Telephone 612 . 460 SEATON ST...... o...... LOS ANGELES, CAL. ~-- JUNE, 1930 57 FRESH FISH SURVEY Marshfield, Ore. HIGASHI INSTALLS (Continued from Page 9) "Halibut has been coming along in REFRIGERATOR varying quantities, but with no large Sacramento, Calif. "It averages about catches," reports Chas. Feller, of Chas. The Higashi Fish Company of Monte 800 to 1200 pounds per day. The fish arc Feller, Inc., 1-farshfield, Ore., vaiting rey, Calif., is installing a refrigeration extra fine this year and running a little !vfay 20. "Scrap fish has been in fair plant which is one of the most modern bit to the large size. VV e had a fair supply off and on but only spasmodic. and efficient in the Monterey peninsula run of shad and striped bass, but noth Shad season opened recently with barJ vicinity, according to H. Hig<;tshi. ing exceptional. Catfish toward the last weather conditions with the result that A freezer room has been built on the of the season ·was heavy and poor sales. the total catch so far has been light, al second floor of the Higashi plant and the The season on the last three mentioned though there are signs of fish in the river company will be able to freeze 500 fish is closed until August 1. Our sal and it is hoped that with improved aml pounds of tish every 2-l hours. "This is mon season closes Jpne 15." warmer weather considerable fish 1vill be not the maximum limit," states Mr. Hig Eurelut taken. Bass was fairly plentiful for the ashi, "for if need. be we can bring up the period of a week or such, but has ag a way as not to damage the rudder or ·wheel. Altogether it \vas a more fortun ate escape than any seaman would dare to I hope for. Urulmwted "Certainly we are going back," declared the Captain in answer to further ques tioning, "but not right away, and not un til we have a telegraph set on board. It is the wrong season down south now bad weather, you know. \Ve were around· the Galapagos for Gver a week and it al r ways blowed a gentl104 SE wind-you could go around in a skiff in it. From Lat. 5 on northward there are gentle winds and lots of rain. From 5 degrees ?98 CLAY STRE~T TELEPHONE to 23 degress, north, from lv[ay to No vember there are cyclones and hurricanes SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. DAvenport -clear up to Cabo Lucas it is very dan 6820 gerous. After June we have to keep away from Socorro, Clipperton and Clarion is lands because of bad gales. Clipperton is 620 miles offshore aud 800 miles from Cabo San Lucas. It is a low, egg-shaped Arthur Anderson island with a lagoon in the center. One time we went ashore there and cornered Chas .. Feller, Inc. , Fish Co., Inc. and clubbed wild boars. We got a couple per boat. \\T e cooked one and threw the Producers and rest overboard-those boars are as fishv Distributors of as a pelican-there is no grass wher~ they live, so they eat gulls' eggs and Oregon's Finest shellfish. VVe are going to Clarion next trip, and in June we will fish on Uncle Fresh and Frozen Sam Bank. Next November >ve will go SALMON hack to the Galapagos again." "This voyage >ve ran 750 hours at 10 ALSO SALMON knots," continued Captain Felando. "Our tanks held 15,000 gallons of fuel and we Wholesale Fish Dealers PACKERS stopped at Manzanillo and bought 1,000 HOME OFFICE gallons more. Oil is costly do\vn there MARSHFIELD, ORE. -we paid 40 cents a gallon to the Stand ASTORIA, OREGON ard Oil Company for what we got-and then there were port and pilot charges, so that going in there is expensive. How captain. "The first impact brought the ever, they certainly treated us well, com~ ship to almost a dead stop, then the sea ing out at 8 o'clock at night and taking raised us clear only to let us down us in right away instead of making us c:~~; MINCED again with a second blow. The engines wait until morning. still were running, and each time that she "Our engine is a 6-cylinder, 300 h.p. lifted we moved ahead a little, so I didn't Union. It never missed a shot all the ABALONE know whether >Ve were going on worse way and we never had to stop it even HENRY DOWDEN CO. or were coming off the rock once. \Ve certainly appreciate the serv Distributors "It was awful. I don't want to go ice that engine has given." 598 Clay Street San Francisco through anything like that again. There ''\:Ve have travelled all alone during Paclced by we were, 75 miles from the nearest hu MARINE PRODUCTS CO. two voyages,'' said the Captain, "and with Packers of ABALONE, TUNA, LOBSTER man being and without any means of out any communication at all. \Ve never and otber sea foods making our situation known. Right then saw a vessel from Manzanillo until we Export Office 416 W. 8th St., Los Angeles is >vhen we all saw the absolute necessity got back to Manzanillo. For 6 days' of having >virele;:;s aboar-d. It was a les running we saw no ships at all. I can son that none of us can forget. tell you that we arc not going down ADVENTURER STRIKES ROCK "When we hit, two or three of the men there like that again-we are going to (Canti11ued from Page 39) began to cry. Someone yelled out 'Oh, have wireless so that if anything happens my God!' 1v!y partner's father-in-law we can save our lives, anyway. 'T'here old. Everywhere around us there were was at the wheel-he was so frightened arc too many sunken rocks and sub~ places where people had dug up the that for three days he sat on the bow, merged reefs down in those seas to take ground, looking for the Morgan treas without sleep. All of the boys got the any chances-if anything happened to ure." habit of standing there, peering into the you down there nobody ever >vould know Thence to the Galapagos water. It takes a long time to get over what became of you. Not finding many fish in the neighbor a scare like that. "I must hm•e been a mad man to go hood of Cocos, the "Adventurer" was "When we hit I gave orders to sound, down there without a >vireless set, or headed out for the Galapagos group, and we had 4 fathoms·. The vessel hit anything," concluded the Skipper.-G. whence rccentlv large fares have been the third time and then came off the rock. R. C. brought to c;uuicry docks by several tuna \!ll e ran a little, until there was 35 fath ships. Yellowfin were scarce, however, oms under us, and then I gave orders to and the vessel followed the shores of the kill the engine an-d drift while I sent a FISTONICH RECOVERING different volcanic land-bodies for several man belo·w to see if he could hear her Andrew fistonich, partner in the Stand days. It was while crusing the shores of making water anywhere. She never ard Fisheries Co., San Pedro, Calif., who Albemarle Island, the inhabited one of leaked a drop. After fishing 4 days we suffered an unfortunate injury resulting the group, that the big boat came to \\·ent back to Cocos." in blood poisoning on his right hand, is grief. \Vhen the "Adventurer'' reached San progressing nicely and will be able to "\Ve were a half mile offshore, in ·what Pedro it was placed in drydock where the return to \York about July, according to the charts showed as deep water, ·\Vhen damage was ascertained to be confined to John h·ancich, manager of the company. we rammed a sunken rock. V•le were a chewed-up iron-bark shoe along the last The accident occurred on February 1_4, going full speed when we hit it, so you fathom of keel. By great good fortune "·hen 1-fr. Fistonich pricked his thumb can imagine what it was like," related the the vessel lifted free of the rock in .such with a nail. JUNE, 1930 59 THE I IF II S 1~1 $1!-lllllr> II> IS lrtS PAGE ARE THE lARGEST OF FISH ~SEAFOODS r We ship standing or Cable Address: "Mutual," Bentley's Complete Phrase ders all over Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada, Nerv .Mexico, Etc. MUTUAL FISH NOTE: We are large buy ers of all ldnds of Fresh Fish and Specialties. Please quote us on volume. COMPANY Producers, Paclters and Shippers of all !rinds of MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF, San Pedro, Calif. FRESH, SALTED AND WHOLESALE SMOKED FISH, LOBSTERS, OYSTERS, FRESH FISH DEALERS CRABS IMPORT-EXPORT ALL KINDS OF MARINE PRODUCTS Packers of STANDARD FISHERIES COMPANY "Pampco" Brand Tempra Fish Cake Established 1697 George- T. Ota, Manager Phone San Pedro 5 Municipal Fish Wharf, San Pedro Telegraph "Mutual" for your fish requirements Purveyors to the Discriminating JOE Dl MASSA, Mgr. American. Fisheries, Inc. Los Angeles NOT THE LARGEST, BUT THE BEST Fish & Oyster CoG& Wholesale Shippers Fresh, Salt or Smoked Fish of nil kinds MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF, San Pedro, Calif. FISH AND SEA FOODS 1'elephone Tclepbone 520 ·173 1\Iunidpnl Fish Wharf 30th St. and Bayfront Snn PedrO', Calif. Newport Deneb, Calif. San Pedro Fish Co .. Wholesale Dea,Iers and Standing Order Shippers of All California Seafoods Vincent Di Meglio Jack Cuomo Annie Di Meglio PROMPT AND RELIABLE-"QUICK SERVICE" MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF, San Pedro, California Ocean Fish Company Established 1897 DISTRIBUTORS ALL KINDS FRESH, SALTED, SMOKED AND FISH SPECIALTIES Standing Orders Given Special Attention PIONEER FISHERIES Wire for our Quotations Wholesalers of all ltinds of Telephones: Marlret, 229 Residence, 1596 FRESH FISH, PERCH, KINGFISH, SMELTS, MACKEREL. MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF, San Pedro, California LOBSTERS, ETC. Standing Order Specialists t _Telephone 1474 Municipal Fish Wharr San Pedro, Calif. A. 1\UNEGHINO, 1\Igr. Established 1910 STAR FISHERIES INDEPENDENT FISH CO. Wholesa1e Distributors of Wholesale Distributors of All Kinds All Kinds of Southern California Sea Foods If you crave Service place your requirements with us WEST COAST FISH MUNICIPAL FISH WHARF, San Pedro, California Phone 4.74. und 4.75 Telephone 2525 1\"lUNICIPAI... FISH WHARF, San Pedro, Calif. I 60 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES I 1 $ ~1\\4~ IE ILIE$T1FiiSI~I IDI6kiLIE IllS I REPRESENTED ON THIS PAGE ARE THE LARGEST l RELIABLE FISH AND SPEC.IA.LTIES f ! JACK OEllJCA George Fe Naylor OWNER General Sea Food Broker All Kinds of Fresh, Frozen, Salt and Cured Fish THE LOS ANGELES FISH AND OYSTER CO. Telephone TUclter 4293 Producers and Distributors Room 204, 337 South Central .A,venue SUPER-QUALITY SEAFOOD LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA 739 KOHLER STREET LOS ANGELES, CALIF. V Andike 2084 Harbor Fish Company Wholesale Dealers Fresh, Salted, Smoked and Canned Sea Foods. OUR All Varieties of Shell Fish and Specialties SEA FOODS PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTE:-Quote us on all kinds Fresh Fish and Specialties ARE A 631·633 CENTRAL AVE., LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA TREAT TO Phones TR 6Z59, TR 6250 EAT, WITH THE FRESHNESS OF THE WREDEN PACIUNG SEA & PROVISION CO. Extensive Dealers in Fish, Meat aml Poultry in Los Angeles for the pllst 30 yeurs. PRODUCERS AND SHIPPERS KINDLY QUOTE DIRECT We operate a fleet .of new fast delivery trucks-your Main Plant and Offices: orders delivered on time and in first class condition. 129 SOUTH MAIN STREET Standing orders filled promptly as well as Special Phone MUtual 4351 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Orders. I 1'1. H. ISENBERG FORMERLY ZAISER PRODUCE CO. YOUNG'S MARKET Wholesale Fish Dealers SPECIALIZING IN FRESH WATER FISH We are the oldest firm. in Los Angeles handling the COMPANY FRESH WATER FISH TRADE Wholesale Fish Division Los Angeles 1812 South Central A venue Telephone WEstmore 3263 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA ATTENTION, PRODUCERS: QUOTE. US FRESH FISH AND SPECIALTIES 410 TOWNE AVE., LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Pho-ne MEtropolitan 6366 Leslie M. Kruschke Max Freeman Phone TUcker 1160, 1168, 1169 Central Fish & Oyster Co. Superior Sea Food Co. PRODUCERS, TAKE NOTICE 632-634 CERES AVE., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. WHOLESALE PURVEYORS OF We buy all kinds of Fish, especially Carp, Blaclt Cod, Mullet, White Fish, Roclt Cod, Halibut, Salmon and Specialties SEA PRODUCTS Telephone VAndilte 3740 To Institutions, Hotels and Restaurants 1012-14 S. Central LOS Always in the IU.nrlwt fo,. Specialties I I JUNE, 1930 61 NEARlY JO YEARS IN THE fiSH BUSINESS Karl I. Sifferman Earl N. Ohmer HE OAKLAND Fish Company, al The new house in Oakland was opened T though incorporated March 4, 1922, under the name of the Independent Fish -is nevertheless the continuation of one Company and it continued as a branch ( San Juan Fishing & Pacldng Co. Palace Fish and Oyster Co. Sebastian-Stuart Fish Co. Edwin Ripley & Son American Sea Food Co Dressel-Colllns Fish Co. New England Fish Co, Booth Fisheries Co. Haines Oyster Co, Ripley Fish Co. Sound Fish Co. Whiz Fish C'o, Main Fish Co. Packed bv the Alaskan Glacier Sea Food Co., Petersburg, Alaslw P. 0. Box 1001, Seattle, Wash. JOSEPH LA,V.R:E:·N~C:E~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!;~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ in 1903 when he purchased the old Amer- r ican Fisheries Company of San Diego, located on J orrie's wharf \vhen that wharf had the distinction of extending farther out from the shores of San Diego Bay than any other, although the Spreck- 1es wharf claimed to be the longest but did not project further out because of the angle on which it was built. Joe Lawrence ·was o\vner and manager of the American Fisheries Company from 1903 until 1915, with the exception of a period of eighteen months in 1908 and 1909 when he turned his company over to the then newly-formed San Diego Fishermen's Union. In 1915 Joe L:.nvrence took into part nership his brother, Frank Lawrence, his brother-in-law, Joe :Miller, and his cou sin, Lawrence Oliver. The idea was to i form a company large enough to set up a branch house in Oakland, Calif., that LOS ANG:BLES i city in 1915 onlv having one ~dwlesale fish house. - 62 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES HAINES EXPANDS When Y OIL Are in DolLbt The 'Haines Oyster Company has just completed another large crab-cooking John Hanl1Jlla Jr. Get in touch with the station. The new institution is located at \Vestport, \Vashington, frorn which point shipments will commence to be Fish Company made at once. This latest addition to WHIZ FISH CO. the properties and facilities of the promi Producers and Distributors nent shellfish house puts it in possession Throughout the Year of WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS of three major crab distributing depots: its home plant on Pier 12, Seattle, its big Steelhead, Chinook Silver, FRESH, SALT AND \Varrenton branch, and this ne·w \Vest SMOKED FISH port agency. and Salmon "\Ve can now take cnre of all orders FOOT OF D STREET Always on the Job -no matter how large or how small they may he," declares E. ]. Whitman, man Telephone 530 Whiz: Dock, Seattle, Washington ager of the concern. "At \Varrenton ABERDEEN, \VASHINGTON there is no closed season, so our supply is comparatively constant. \Ve have a large fleet of boats fishing out of both Vlestport and Warrenton, but we ·wish the trade to know that orders should be Washington State Health SAN JUAN FISHING placed either through the Seattle or \\Tar Certificate No. 3 renton offices. California dealers are as & PACKING CO., Inc. sured that orders reaching Seattle before Wholesale Dealers, Packers 9:00 A. 1-L on a Mondav morning will J.J.BRENNER and Shippers of be cared for with such drspatch that the Fresh, Frotzen, Salt, Smoked shipments will reach them on the morn OYSTER CO. and Canned Fish ing of the following \Vednesday." Established 1893 ALSO: Fresh prime chilled Salmon and Halibut Steaks wrapped in parchment paper bearing San Juan trade mark and Growers and Wholesale Shippers paclted in small, conv>lnient size fiber pncltages, of the BRANCHES-Seward, Alaslm; Port Lawrence, Alaska; Ketchikan, Alaska; IRALL- andl FAMOUS FRESH OLYMPIA Uganik Bay, Alaska.; Port San Juan, Alaslta; Tutka Bay, Alasltn; Pacific OYSTERS AND CLAMS Fisheries Co., Ltd., Prince Rupert, B. C. 502 Fourth Ave. West FOOT OF STACY STREET OLSON Seattle, Washington OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON Producers nnd Distributors -OF- Edwin Ripley & Son. Chinoolcs, Silvers, Steellreads E. J. WHITMAN, President and Bright Fall Salmon, Wholesale Shippers of also Sturgeon FRESH, FROZEN and SMOKED FISH Haines Oyster Co. 1899-PIONEER DEALER-1930 South Bend, Wash. Est. 1892 Pier 12, Seattle, Washington Largest shippers of Shellfish on the Pacific Coast Puget Sound Scallops, Shrimpmeat, Crabmeat, Olympia Oysters, Rock Point TACOMA FISH AND If It's Sea Food-See Vs Oysters, Deep Sea Crabs, Clams PACKING COMPANY and All Other Shellfish WHOLESALE SHIPPERS OF RIPLEY FISH Quality Al1vays FRESH, FROZEN AND SMOKED FISH Spocializing in Puget Sound Salmon COMPANY, INC. Pier No. 12 1107 DOCK STREET DEPENDABLE QUALITY Telephone Main 6800 Telephone Main 1061 Pier No. 9 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON TACOMA, WASHINGTON SEATTLE, WASHINGTON "PACKED WITH THE WIGGLE JUNE, 1930 63 lARGE HATCH ASSURED fOR 1930 TATE SALMON hatcheries of Ore survives the trip to the sea and back, gon -.,yjlJ have a greater year than ever says 1-fr. Mitchell. If thev all lived, n before,S in 19.10, according to Hugh C. total of 36,500,000 mature cl~inook salmon Mitchell, director of fish culture for the would be worth in excess of $109,500,000. state fish commission. According to 1\.{r. "No one can comprehend the life of a 1viitchell, young salmon now being held salmon in his own element after he leaves 1n feeding ponds throughout the state a hatchery," 1fr. Mitchell states, in ex~ number 36,500,000 and liberations arc planation of the great loss. being made constantly as the young fish NEWPORT attain a growth sufficient to afford them "\Ve can guess at his fate in fresh self-protection during their journey to ·water and to a certain extent we can FISH CO .. the sea. alleviate his many difficulties, but after Crnd Meredith, Manager Only a fraction of the great mass e\·er he enters the sea we lose him. There WHOLESALE SHIPPERS he becomes the prey of countless dangers and the toll exacted upon him is past all Of Salmon, Halibut, Ling comprehen!'lion. It has been estimated Cod and Snappers that in British Columbia waters onlv one NEWPORT OREGON per cent of the natural hatch ever Teach Nehalem Bay es salt water and that only a quarter of that one per cent ever lives to ascend their natal stream. Fish Co. "It must be remembered that this one H. W. KLEIN, Mgr. per cent which does go down to the ocean is a result nf natural propagation SUNSET FISH WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS and that they were not raised by arti ficial methods where they can be guard · Chinooks, Steelheads, Silvers ed to a great extent until they are ready co.. and Bright Fall Salmon to lea\'"e." Hatcheries of the Oregon fish com Wholesale Distributors of Let Us Quote You mission now number 13, with 3 egg Nehalem Bay Chinook, collecting stations, where the mature fish Silverside, Bright Falls WHEELER OREGON are artificially spawned to provide eggs for the hatcheries, and three feeding sta and Steelheads tions. Each hatchery is equipped with feeding Prices on Request ponds and at Bonneville hatchen,. sal Telephone Broadway 3690 mon frequently run in from the. Colum WHEELER OREGON J. F.· Meehan, Manager bia River to gain the feeding ponds where they were raised. The young fish are PORTLAND !FISH CO. frequently held at the Bonneville hatch SALMON AND HALIBUT-Also Fresh, ery until they have attained a length of Smoked, Piclded Fish and Oysters more than six inches. Ail Orders Filled nt the Lowest Market Price 34 FRONT STREET TINT'S FISH PORTLAND, OREGON VISITS SOUTHERN OREGON Hugo \V. Klein nf the Nehalem Bay Fish Company, \Vheeler, Ore., accom MARKET i panied by his wife and two small sons, paid a visit to the Southern Oregon Wholesale Distributors of J.H. REEVES-BROKER district recently. 1\Jr. Klein 1vas partic Columbia River Salmon, Established 1914 ularly impressed with the Rogue River Carp, Suckers and Smelts Sale!! Agent for Finns from Seattle to section, as well as the scenic Oregon San Diego Coast highway from there to the :Pistol New Accounts Solicited Also all kinds of Fresh, Salt, Smoked Shipper of Salmon, Cod, Suckers, Etc. River, which he acclaims as being one of and Piclded Fish, Oysters, Clams, the longest and most beautiful sections Crabs, Etc. 809 E. 76TH ST., N. PORTLAND, OREGON of the high\Yay. He still maintains that ! the section from Tillamook north to Sea 206 YAMHILL STREET side will be even more beautiful when Telephone Atwater 3511 - the highway is completed. PORTLAND, OREGON J. W. ANDERSON, Mgr. .. __ WARRENTON PREPARE FOR SEASON Fishermen at \Vheeler, Ore., arc mak ing re:1dy fm· the opening of the season J. E. LAWRENCE FISHERIES CO. on August 1. Hanging of new nets, paint ing oi boats anrl manv other related ac &CO. Crabs and Crab Meat tivities a!·e in order. s;ngging operations, MERCHANDISE BROKERS General Sea Foods and Fish under the direction L)f the Snagging Asso Oldest Crab Shippers in Warrenton Products WARRENTON, OREGON ciation. will al.~o start soon. Tillamook Ba~; season was opened on May 20. 11.-=~~~~~~STRE~E~T_.._~ 64 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES INDEPENDENT REPORTS GOOD BUSINESS MO.N'l'EREY HAH.LES \V. RENN1CK, for several c\o\\"11 in San Pedro, a struggling young Cyears manager of the fish and poultry port. department of the \Vreden Packing & He went to work for the American P1·ovision Company, Los Angeles, Calif., Union Fish Company, one of the pioneer during the past month assisted Genna fish houses of Southern California, re- ro 1-lineghino, maining with NEARLY 30 YEARS IN BUSINESS tem to go in a wholesale fish house in (Conliuued from Page 61) Oakland. Particular attention was given to the packing of orders, both for ship bought outright the Independent Fish ment and local delivery and a strict BRANCHES, OAKLAND, MON Company of Oakland and sold to the system for the inspection of all incoming other partners their interest in the Amer fish was adopted. TEREY, PITTSBURG, EUREKA, ican Fisheries Company o[ San Diego. Strict Inspection A Cousolitlution SANTA CRUZ, POINT REYES. rrhe Independent Fish Company of In connection with the strict inspection Oakland then consolidated with the In of incoming fish, the company at first dependent Fish Company of San Francis experienced difficulties ·with some ship co, continuing with this arrangement un pers along the Pacific coast. It took the til 1922, when the two houses dissolved officers of the company se\ren:tl years to partnership. As 'the Independent Fish convince the shippers that simply be Company of Oakland then had no con cause the fish shipped by them \ras nection with the company of the same passed as satisfactory by other houses, that it did not necessarilv mean that it name in San Francisco, it \Vas thought -wise to change the name of the company \\'as satisfactory to the- Oakland Fish to avoid confusion. Consequently on Company. Ho-\vever, in iairness to the j\,farch 4, 1924. there came into existence \Vest Coast shippers, it is safe to say the Oakland Fish Company, Inc., ·with that as a general rule thev are all more Joe Lawrence, president; Frank Law careful about the quality ~f fish shipped rence, vice ·president and Bart A. Ghio, today, to eyeryone, than was the case a fe\\· :rears ago, savs 1-ir. Ghio. secretary and treasurer. Nationwide Shippe1·s Although the name of Bart A. Ghio The same policy- of quality was also first appears with the formation of the adopted by the salt fish department. Nnv of Fresh and Mild Cured . present company in 1922, he had been methods of brining were tried, and the active in the Independent Fish Company method producing the best results \\'as Salmon and Shad since it \vas first organized in Oakland adopted. A finer grade of salt was adopt back in 1915. However, 1-fr. Ghio did ed and a special storeroom for the salt Fresh, Mild-cured and not varticipate in the activities of the fish was constructed where they are kept company between 1917 and 1922, having at n constant temperature. Smoked Fish The growth under the Oakland's pol been bu>iy during this period acquiring Also Sliced Abalone a B.S. deg-ree at the Uninrsity oi Cali icy was such that by 1928, six years aiter fornia and also serving in the A. E. F. the incorporation, the company complete during the \Vorld war. ly outgrew its old plant. Consequently a move was made to the present loca rl Sieacly Growth tion where there is ample room for furth The Independent Fish Company en er expansion. The new location, with joyed a fine, steady growth from 1~15 to its 7000 square feet of ground floor space. 1922, but the growth of which the of offered the opportunity for arrangement ficers are proud is that experienced of ice plant, storage boxes, freezers, from 1922, when the Oakland Fish Com cleaning tables, salting space, packing Operating the pany was incorporated, up to the pres and shipping space and office in a manner ent day. to save tim-e and labor, and bring to a The policy adopted at the outset, and much higher level the eHiciency of the still· foiio\ved today by the company is whole plant. Most Modern "quality." The oflicers, knowing that any A Rl!cortl }' ellr and all fish are g-ood if FRESH, and that the best of fish is not good when The new, larger, cleaner, better light Type Diesel not fresh, decided that no fish would go ed, and more conveniently arranged plant out of the bouse that ·was not ftrst class. brought further prestige and consequent Quality became the watchword, ·with the ly new business. This was especially result that the company soon acquired the noticeable in the salt fish department Trawlers reputation of numbering among its cus when for the first time this department tomers Hll the "cranky" retailers. This had the proper amount of room to carry situation still holds today; if the dealer out the improved methods previously is a "crank" he buvs from the Oakland, ndopted and to properly display goods and the officers arC very proud of this to buyers. The year 1929 was not only distinction. a record year for the department in point Main Office, 542 Clay Street In order to keep fish in better condi of sales, but a gratifying year also in the tion new ice boxes ·were constructed, and new dealer connections made. "It can be SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. later a complete automatic refrigeration said here," states lvfr. Ohio, "that the fine system was installed-the first such sys- "hawing of the salt fish department was San Franeisco International Fish Company MAIN OFFICE, 535-39 WASIDNGTON STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA California's Largest Producers and 1Flwlesalers EIGHT BRANCH HOUSES Northern California FROZEN SQUID Distributors of Domestic and Export NORDIC FILLETS Shipments 66 THE WEST COAST FISHERIES no doubt assisted greatly lly the advertis JACONI TO RETURN SOON itlg campaign carried out by this depart Huge Squid Catches ment, proving that what the fish busines:; A. B. J aconi, one of the owners of \Vith catches far surpassing any taken in California needs, to bring it to the the Pioneer Fish Company of San Pedro, front, is more advertising." during recent years, squid fishermen at Calif., who has spent about ten months The first four months of this year have lviontcrey, Calif., are expecting to break far outstripped the first four months of all records for this fishery. On one day, on an extended tour of Europe, will re 1929, ·which was a banner year for the May 17, the boats unloaded trips totali_ng turn to his home some ti111e in June, ac \VCll in excess of 200 tons and earher companv, Mr. Ghio declares. "The of in the -..veek a catch of similar size was cording td his partners. lvfr. Jaconi, ac Peers ai1d the personnel arc determined companied by his family, visited France, to make 1930 the biggest year ever. The made, these two catches being the larg plant and equipment are complete and est ever made in one day, according to Italy and Spain, then spent the major Man terey records. modern, the business policy is sound and portion of his time in Jugoslavia. On this together with the experience and During April alone more than twice as many pounds of squid were landed at the return trip the Jacoujs are visiting ability of the officers will no doubt re Germany, Austria, England and other sult in continued progress." the Monterey wharf than in the previous vear. The total for 1929 was 1,866,936 countries. Pounds and that for last April 3,797,666 pounds. Fishermen report that drying condi SAN FRANCISCO tions are perfect. There is every indi SAN FRANCISCO cation that this year's catch will be three or four times the size of the 1925 total, when the larg.est catches in the history of the 1vfonterey squid industry ·were landed. The 1925 total w:.s 5,208,050 pounds. The Western Four Monterey canneries are packing squid and from 30 to 35 per cent of the catch is being shipped to San Francisco Standard in especially constructed tank trucks California provided with ice compartments. 1-Iuch of the squid is for reshipment out of San Francisco on refrigerator ships Fish Company hound for New York or the Orient. Fisheries IMPRESSIVE CHRISTENING General Offices An impressive christening ceremony, in the form of a double function, was held 556-566 CLAY ST. on Sundav, 1v[ay 11, at the Knights of PRODUCERS AND Columbus· hall, San Pedro, Calif., for SAN FRANCISCO little John Joseph Deluca, infant son of DISTRIBUTORS :iv1r. and Mrs. Jack Deluca, and Louis John Mascola, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Operating our own Trawlers. 1\.hscola. The christening was conducted by Careful Attention given all PRODUCERS OF Father Benso of the Mary-Star-of- the Sea Church. Miss Jennie Deluca and orders regardless of quantity Sammy Carrise acted as godmother and desired. godfather, respectively, for Master De luca and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Amalfitano Cal-Pac were godparents for Louis John Mas BRAND cola. Approximately 100 guests vvere presnt at the dinner, at 2 o'clock, which fol lowed the christening ceremony. F al Distributors lowing dinner, a reception and dance Northern California West-Cal ·was held, attended by 400 friends of Mr. BRAND and Mrs. Deluca and Mr. and Mrs. lvias and Nevada cola. 1-{usic was furnished by the Charles Joslyn orchestra. Mr. Deluca is the proprietor of the "SEAFRESH Los Angele:;; l;ish & Oyster Company of Los Ange\e:o;, Calif., and 1-lrs. Mascola is FROSTED Fresh, Frozen, Salt, the sister of Mrs. Deluca. FILLETS" Smoked, Canned SEASONS IN CALIF. SAL1v10N-Opened June 1 for most of Northern California, closing September 15; closes June 15 for portion of Car FISH quinez Straits, Suisun Bay, portion of Sacramento River, portions of .the San MAIN OFFICE, Joaquin River; portions of San Fran..: We Operate Our Own cisco and San Pahlo havs were closed Foot of Leavenworth Street on June 1. - SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Trawlers STRIPED BASS Ar:D SHAD-Season closed on l\.fay 15, opening again Aug P. 0. BOX 2232 ust 1. CATFISH-Season closed )..fay 14, opens again August 15. - BRANCHES: Santa Cruz, CRABS-Open since November 15; Eureka, 0 a k Ian d, Pittsburg, clo:>es on J nly 30 for all state except Branches: Siskivou, extreme northern ·coast o[ EUREKA, PITTSBURG, Dei Monte Fishing & Packing state- and Humboldt Day, which closes Co., Monterey on August 30. SANTA CRUZ, MONTEREY ABALONES-Open since ii-Iarch 15 (does not close until January 1-t).