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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishgabien19561958cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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64 DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME the angling pressure exerted by the sportsman is felt to be an important link in the decline of the halibut, particularly since 1947. Tagging ^\as started in March, 1956, and approxi- mately 8,000 halibut were tagged by the end of the biennium in California waters. Tag returns have aver- aged about 5 percent a year, but improved methods recently developed should increase returns substan- tially. Commercial fishermen have all but abandoned the fishery, with the exception of two or three tram- mel net operators. Trawlers catch halibut incidentally â while tra\\"ling for other species. SURF FISHES The detailed results of the surf fishing investigation, which terminated near the end of the biennium, will appear in two biological bulletins, one on barred surf- perch, the other on California corbina and spotfin and yellowfin croakers. These bulletins wall cover the life histories, tagging studies, voluntary catch statistics, and a creel census analysis. The barred perch bulletin gives a considerable amount of ecological information, especially that from beach seining operations, in which P<!wCef So^ 0<!iCcA^ Year Rockfish Salmon Barracuda Yellowtail 1966 2,037,000 1,396,000 114,600 44,700 87,600 677,000 29,000 243,000 1957 about 128,000 fish of 72 species were taken during the period from February, 1953, to September, 1956. Some 7,000 fish for biological study and tagging were taken from the project species which formed part of this total. Another 4,000 specimens, including fish for tag- ging, were taken by trawl net and other means. Barred perch made up over 73 percent of the beach seine catch of the four species; California corbina, 17.5 percent; spotfin croaker, 8 percent; and yellowfin croaker, 1 Vj percent. In the surf fisherman's catch the barred surf perch predominated along the entire Southern California coast, making up virtually 100 percent of the catch north of Santa A4onica Bay, and about 80 percent south of there. It was followed by California corbina, spotfin croaker, and yellowfin croaker in that order. Marine biologists E. J. Smith, left, and Leo Pinkus, right, check size and take scale samples from unidentified sportsman's catch of barracuda. âFish and Game Photo
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