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Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California
Year: 1853 (1850s)
Authors: California. Legislature
Subjects: Legislative journals
Publisher: Sacramento : State Printing
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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f has to be used to lift the fish into the boat. The albacore are cleaned or dressed at sea by the fishermen. The headand entrails are removed, in which process the fish loses about 18 percent of its weight. For the dressed fish they receive from the canneries1; cents per pound. Anything less than a ton of fish is considered apoor catch and catches of four to six tons are common. The Capture of Bait.—In fishing for albacore the most difficult partis obtaining the bait. Very often the sardines or anchovies are hard tofind or the fishermen may have to go a long distance out of their way toget them. Frequently some of the boats are not able to obtain bait atall. Small meshed nets of two types are used for capturing this bait.Practically all boats carry a small net known locally as the blanketnet. It was introduced by the Japanese. A few of the boats now carrycircle or lampara nets, the largest of which are 350 feet long and about40 feet deep. REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 119
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120 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. It is necessary to use the larger nets when the sardines and anchoviesare scarce. The blanket net, I think, is a harmless net and does littleor no damage. The circle net is usually cast where a school of sardinesor anchovies is observed at the surface of the water, and the nets takelittle else. The only serious damage they could do would be when theyare used in too shallow water and the lead line drags the bottom. Tunderstand they seldom use it where the water is shallow. No legislation should be contemplated which would hinder these netsin the taking of fish for bait, as it would seriously cripple the tunaindustry. Due to the scarcity of bait at times, I think it would be tothe best interest of the people as a whole in the southern part of the stateto allow the restricted taking of bait within fish preserves. The Canning of the Tuna.Only the long-finned tuna or albacore is used in canning. The dressedfish are brought in by the boats in the

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