. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 30 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME Men of northern experience, skilled in the use of the "hoop" appa- ratus, still occasionally come to Monterey to try their tackle there. One of the most recent of these was a Russian who came in 1927 from Eureka and San Francisco with a complete outfit of northern crab gear. His trial sets were made with eight "hoops," and resulted in the cap- ture of not one legal-sized crab. Two of the
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. 30 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME Men of northern experience, skilled in the use of the "hoop" appa- ratus, still occasionally come to Monterey to try their tackle there. One of the most recent of these was a Russian who came in 1927 from Eureka and San Francisco with a complete outfit of northern crab gear. His trial sets were made with eight "hoops," and resulted in the cap- ture of not one legal-sized crab. Two of the sets yielded a few imma-. FiG. 15. Mid-day scene on the Municipal Fishermen's "WTiarf at Santa Cruz, California. Crab fishermen busy repairinjiT the large-meshed gill nets. Pho- tograph by George Roger Chute. ture specimens; the others were entirely barren. The failure of the fishing was attributed entirely to the depredations of hag-fish. Not- withstanding that the baits had been covered carefully with two thick- nesses of heavy burlap and then each enclosed in the customary basket of woven brass wire, the toothed "hags" had succeeded in gnawing an entrance, for the bait was entirely gone from six of the "hoops" and only a part remained in the other two. The Kussian said that this attempt was made in twenty-one fathoms, in the same general locality where he now operates successfully with a different sort of gear. Since in the north his crab work had been done in six to sixteen fathoms, he decided to test shallower water, and did so. In six to eight fathoms he found that did not interfere Avith operations, but that there were no crabs there, either. The inability of the hoop-net fishermen to operate within the bay and the decline in productiveness of the rocky ledges of adjacent Pacific .shore are cited as the reasons for the practical disappearance of crab fishing at the two Monterey Bay ports in 1921. Indeed, the year's catch at Monterey w
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