. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 136 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME Whitebait Catch Figures—Northern California* Jan., Feb., Mar. Apr., May, June Jnly,Ang.,Sept. Oct., Nov., Dec. Totals 1'j24 4,222 58,552 55,614 3,386 111,774 1925 1,576 :?3,315 33,259 2,818 70,968 1926 7,215 34,762 43,425 155 85,557 1927 19,582 85,755 21,439 7,373 134,149 1928 9,388 93,428 31,967 1,303 135,186 Del Norte, Mendocino, San Mateo, Hvmboldt Sonura Marin San Francisco 1924 53,461 172 3,715 62,096
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 136 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME Whitebait Catch Figures—Northern California* Jan., Feb., Mar. Apr., May, June Jnly,Ang.,Sept. Oct., Nov., Dec. Totals 1'j24 4,222 58,552 55,614 3,386 111,774 1925 1,576 :?3,315 33,259 2,818 70,968 1926 7,215 34,762 43,425 155 85,557 1927 19,582 85,755 21,439 7,373 134,149 1928 9,388 93,428 31,967 1,303 135,186 Del Norte, Mendocino, San Mateo, Hvmboldt Sonura Marin San Francisco 1924 53,461 172 3,715 62,096 ]925 38,017 ___ 4,845 1926 73,242 .__ 4,233 7,689 1927 101,272 313 30,955 1928 100,230 16,470 233 14,388 * Compiled by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. A SHOCKING FISH TALE Electrocuted Tuna Easily Landed By COBURN F. Maddox [With two photographs by the author] In 1920 Captain Guy Silva was cruising- in his boat, the Alice, oflt' the Soccoro Islands, about 250 miles south of Cape San Lucas. They were not havino' very g-ood hick, but finally ran into some big Allison's yellowtin tuna weigliing between two hundred and three hundred pounds each, and were working hard to land these big fellows, it took four or five men to bring these big yellowfin tunas to gaff. Tlie idea oeevii'red to Captain Silva at this time to try electrocuting these biu' tunas so they could be handled by fewer men. He also had discovered that local tunas as well the Allison's would not take bait on the heavy gear and large hooks necessary to bring them aboai'd tlie boat. Being somewhat of an electi-ician ('a])tain Silva figured out he did not have enough voltage on the boat Alice to successfully kill or stun so large a fish, so he had to let the experiment go for a while, but when he launclied his new boat, th(> /-o/.s iS, in 1926, he had his first chance to. Fig. 46. Large tuna secured by new method of electrocuting fish to hasten Please note that these images are extracted fro
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