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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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ook and seagull feathers,late in the fall of the year, by returning Alaska salmon fishermen. The Albacore in the Mediterranean Sea. In the countries bordering the Mediterranean on the north, the alba-core is valued very highly as a food fish. It is evidently not nearly soplentiful there as here, and the fisliermen fish for it with large gill netsthree hundred fathoms long. They are held in such esteem there thatthe fishermen themselves usually can not afford to eat them, but sellthem for a good price and for themselves use le&s expensive fish. Those who have eaten the IMediterranean albacore consider the fishtaken here its equal if not superior in quality and flavor, but untilwithin recent years the albacore here has not played an important partin the food supply. Small quantities were salted and dried for thePortuguese and Japanese trade, but not until enterprising packersbegan canning it and advertising it did the people appreciate it. REPORT OP THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 115
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116 REPORT OF THE PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. Origin and Growth of the Tuna Canning Industry.About six years ago the Southern California Fish Company of EastSan Pedro packed a few cases of albacore as an experiment. The firstimportant pack was in 1911, when the above cannery and the PacificTuna Canning Company of San Diego together put up about 20,000cases. From that time on the industry has grown enormously. In 1912there were five tuna canneries in southern California which put up80,000 eases. In 1913, there were nine canneries which put out 128,000cases, or roughly 6,400,000 pounds. In canning, but little more than 50per cent of the whole fish is used; so that the weight of the fish as theywere taken from the sea was about 12,000,000 lbs. At this time, July,1914, there are eleven canneries located in southern California, and atleast one more in Lower California at Magdalena Bay. The canneries ofsouthern California up to July 18th had taken 90,000 cases or, roughly,9,000,000 pounds of

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