. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 146 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME turtles presently landed in Baja California, many from those same central Gulf fishing grounds, are consumed either locally or trucked alive or as salted and air-dried meat to markets in larger towns on the peninsula. In the summer of 1962, trucks from the Gulf of California village of Los Angeles Bay turned back rather than enter the United States when they could not find a market for their turtles in Ens
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 146 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME turtles presently landed in Baja California, many from those same central Gulf fishing grounds, are consumed either locally or trucked alive or as salted and air-dried meat to markets in larger towns on the peninsula. In the summer of 1962, trucks from the Gulf of California village of Los Angeles Bay turned back rather than enter the United States when they could not find a market for their turtles in Ensenada, Tijuana, or Mexicali. Such long trips over rough roads, particularly in summer, often result in the death of almost an entire load of turtles. In these cases, or when turtles die in the holding pens, they are cut up when freshly dead and the meat salted and dried for human consump- tion. My investigations showed no evidence of present-day turtle canning in Baja California. However, Parsons (1962:75) reported a turtle-soup. FIGURE 8. Inside a pen filled with live green turtles at Los Angeles Bay. Photograph by the author, February 1962. cannery has been working in recent years at Asuncion Bay. While in the area, Kenneth E. Stager of the Los Angeles County Museum was informed in March 1963, that a seafood cannery, which included sea turtles among its products, was operating on Santa Margarita Isl. near Magclalena Bay. Parsons was informed that the Asuncion canner's product was used almost exclusively in Baja California; Stager could not find where the Margarita products were sold. I found two soup and turtle stew factories in Ensenada, but appar- ently their product is sold only over the counter. Similar establishments probably occur in all Baja California cities where sea turtles are read- ily available. Some of the oil skinmied off the soup pot in Ensenada is saved for medicinal purposes. Craig (1926: 167) related that sea turtles landed at San Felipe, in the northweste
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