. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME fishery without loss of tish either by the fishermen or from the element of time Avhich enters into the matter when the fish are at some distance from the utilization point. The fishermen have wasted fish in the past, perhaps from inexperience and carelessness, but the crew is culpable, and not the gear. "When handled properly and with due regard to conserving the fish, the purse seine will compare f
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME fishery without loss of tish either by the fishermen or from the element of time Avhich enters into the matter when the fish are at some distance from the utilization point. The fishermen have wasted fish in the past, perhaps from inexperience and carelessness, but the crew is culpable, and not the gear. "When handled properly and with due regard to conserving the fish, the purse seine will compare favorably with any unit of gear which handles fish in large quantities. THE CALIFORNIA WHITEBAIT FISHERY By Paul Bonnot [With four photographs and one drawing by the author] Nearly everyone with a taste for fish is familiar wuth "whitebait," but very few have any idea as to what it is. where it comes from, or the methods of obtaining it. Whitebait as a trade name has been in use a long time. "Whitebait was taken in the Thames River and sold in England about 1800. Some question was raised at the time as to -whether or not it was the young of valuable fishes, especially the shad. A Dutch zoologist in 1806 determined that it was not young shad, and the fishermen, of course, maintained that it was a small species. Subseciuent inquiry into the matter has resulted in establishing the Thames whitebait as the young of the herring and sprat. In various parts of the Avorld 3'oung fishes are taken and marketed. In English-speaking countries such fishes are indiscrimi-. FiG. 41. FiVf species ot lish in ;i random handlull taken near Fort Point, San Francisco Bay, Cali- fornia, October 23, 1929. They are jack smelt < Atheriaopsis californiensis), surf smelt (Hypo- iiifsiis prttosns), panzarotti (Atherinopsis afflnis affinis), anchovy (En<jranlis mordax namus) and herring (Elupea pallasii).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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