. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. II- CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. Figure 60. The 24-pound opah, Lampris regius, caught off Monterey on September 25, 1950. Photograph by J. B. Phillips. A second opah was caught in the Los Angeles harbor area a short time later and was estimated to weigh around 80 pounds. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, made a east of this second fish. On August 2, 1950, a 40-pounder was caught by a Los Angeles fisherman (R. Smith) at a
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. II- CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. Figure 60. The 24-pound opah, Lampris regius, caught off Monterey on September 25, 1950. Photograph by J. B. Phillips. A second opah was caught in the Los Angeles harbor area a short time later and was estimated to weigh around 80 pounds. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, made a east of this second fish. On August 2, 1950, a 40-pounder was caught by a Los Angeles fisherman (R. Smith) at almost the same plaee as was the .July 18 specimen. Two of these opahs had identical vertebral counts, 20 precaudal and 24 caudal, while the third had 20 precaudal and 23 caudal. Another was caught in the paddle wheel of a glass-bottom boat at Santa Catalina Island in early September. This fish was gaffed and pulled aboard the boat. Its weight was estimated at 60 to 70 pounds. A fifth opah was caught off Humboldt County in a drag net by a commercial fisherman some time during the summer of 1950. Mr. H. S. Barnes of Fortuna, California, sent a snapshot of this specimen to the laboratory for identification. Further information concerning this cap- ture is not available; however, Mr. Barnes did volunteer information on two other L. regius which were taken by salmon trollers. The first was caught during July, 1945, by Mr. Paul Pellegrini on the troller Sea Gull and the other by Mr. "Bud" Peters on the troller Pandora during 1946 or 1947. Both of these fish weighed 9 or 10 pounds and were caught on salmon spoons in the Eel River Canyon about 16 miles southwest of Humboldt Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; Calif
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