. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 200 CALIFORNIA FISH AND Fig. 63. Scene on Noyo River showing salmon fishing boats. Wonaeotes photi NOTES FROM THE STATE FISHERIES LABORATORY. By Will F. Thompson and Elmer HlGGiNS. THE RECURRENCE OF THE FRIGATE MACKEREL. In California Fish and Game for October, 1918 (Volume 4, Number 4, page 183), the first occurrence of the frigate mackerel, Auxls thazard, was noted. This was one of the remarkable features of the unusual summe
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 200 CALIFORNIA FISH AND Fig. 63. Scene on Noyo River showing salmon fishing boats. Wonaeotes photi NOTES FROM THE STATE FISHERIES LABORATORY. By Will F. Thompson and Elmer HlGGiNS. THE RECURRENCE OF THE FRIGATE MACKEREL. In California Fish and Game for October, 1918 (Volume 4, Number 4, page 183), the first occurrence of the frigate mackerel, Auxls thazard, was noted. This was one of the remarkable features of the unusual summer season of 1918. At that time small catches were made in company with catches of skipjack (Euthyrmus), yellow-fin tuna and some mackerel (Scomber). Tirs year slightly larger individual boat catches won' made of the frigate mackerel, but as the ma- jority of the canneries refused them, they were not brought in as often. One catch of five tons was recorded by a single boat on the nineteenth of August. The first noted by the writer came in on the ?California State Fisheries Laboratory, Contribution No. 12. seventeenth of August, and the last on the twenty-second. Other catches at earlier and later dates were undoubtedly made, but the data have not yet been obtained from the statistical records. The average weight of these fish was pounds before cleaning, and the loss of weight in clean- ing and preparing for canning was very high. Therefore those canneries which accepted the species at the start of the run later refused to take any except for fertilizer. It may be noted in connection with this species that mention of very young tuna or albacore may refer to the taking or observation of schools of the frigate mackerel. Fishermen unfamiliar with thorn, as was usually the case, were in- clined to promptly refer them to the young of other species of the tuna group, frequently the blue-fin.—W. F. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may
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