Report of the Commissioner from 1889 to 1891 . Float and Packing-boxes, San Francisco Oyster Sloop, San Francisco Bay. OYSTER RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 359 San Pablo Bay.—The most diligent dredging from a steam launchfailed to reveal any shell life, except clams, upon the bottom of SanPablo Bay. The native oyster, 0. lurida, so abundant in San FranciscoBay, particularly far south of the city, was not found here at all. Itis probable that it formerly lived here, for there are extensive depositsof shells of this species to be seen in the faces of the bluffs along thewest side of Mare
Report of the Commissioner from 1889 to 1891 . Float and Packing-boxes, San Francisco Oyster Sloop, San Francisco Bay. OYSTER RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 359 San Pablo Bay.—The most diligent dredging from a steam launchfailed to reveal any shell life, except clams, upon the bottom of SanPablo Bay. The native oyster, 0. lurida, so abundant in San FranciscoBay, particularly far south of the city, was not found here at all. Itis probable that it formerly lived here, for there are extensive depositsof shells of this species to be seen in the faces of the bluffs along thewest side of Mare Island fronting on San Pablo Bay. Nearly all thesupply of soft-shelled clams is derived from the mudflats of San PabloBay. This species is apparently as abundant here as if it had alwaysexisted in these waters. While San Pablo Bay appears to be devoid of shell life, except clams,it is rich in shrimps and fishes. Many of the Chinese shrimp-fishersnets are set here constantly and the Italian fishermen take many stur-geon. The shrimp nets also take sculpins, young flounders, and othersm
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