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Three Years of Fisheries Statistics on Marine Sport Fishing in California
Author(s) -
Croker Richard S.
Publication year - 1940
Publication title -
transactions of the american fisheries society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.696
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1548-8659
pISSN - 0002-8487
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8659(1939)69[111:tyofso]2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - fishing , fishery , geography , fish <actinopterygii> , trips architecture , biology , engineering , transport engineering
Since 1936 the California Division of Fish and Game has collected statistics on the ocean sport fishery as a part of its management program. Operators of pleasure fishing boats make out daily reports on the catches of their passengers. Annual catches average 2,000,000 fish with a weight of 6,000,000 pounds. The tabulated reports show: monthly and annual catches of each species; the catch, according to locality, of all species combined and of certain important species; the monthly and annual number of fishermen and number of boat trips; and the number of boats reporting each month and during the year.