. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 22(1 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME PACIFIC FAT SLEEPER, DORMITATOR LATIFRONS (RICHARDSON) (Figure 3) Mr. Norm Sherman hooked and Landed a Pacific fat sleeper on July 8, 1961, while he was fishing from the rocky shoreline near Palos Verdes (Los Angeles County) using shrimp for bait. Mr. Sherman dropped hi* catch into a metal ice chest partially filled with water and thought no more of the incident until he was preparing to depart for home a
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 22(1 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME PACIFIC FAT SLEEPER, DORMITATOR LATIFRONS (RICHARDSON) (Figure 3) Mr. Norm Sherman hooked and Landed a Pacific fat sleeper on July 8, 1961, while he was fishing from the rocky shoreline near Palos Verdes (Los Angeles County) using shrimp for bait. Mr. Sherman dropped hi* catch into a metal ice chest partially filled with water and thought no more of the incident until he was preparing to depart for home and discovered it was .still alive. He kept it alive at home for several days, adding fresh water as the level in the ice chest fell. After about a week, the water had become so foul that Mr. Sherman felt it necessary to change ii ; having no salt water handy he refilled the ice chest from a freshwater tap. expecting to see the fish .succumb at any minute. Instead, the fish survived the change and lived for another week when Mr. Sherman took it to Harry's Bait and Tackle. Playa Del Rev. to see if they could identify it for him. Mrs. Harry Edilson, wife of the proprietor, called me and I arranged to have it picked up and identified. With the assistance of Dr. Carl L. Hubbs, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, T was able to inform Mrs. Edilson that it was a Pacific fat sleeper. Follett (1961) reviewed the status of the species and listed their distribution as Punta Lobos, two miles southwest of Todos S;mtos. Baja California (770 miles below Palos Verdes. California', south to Guayaquil. Ecuador. They typically inhabit freshwater but move freely into saltwater and vice versa. In discussing finding a close relative. Et<1rk picta, in a canal off the Colorado River in 1952, Hubbs (1953) speculated that Dormitator latifrons might also stray up the river into California but added none had yet been found as far north as the Colorado Delta. That one would stray even a short distance
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