UC San Diego Library – Scripps Digital Collection

The purpose of this bulletin is to present the statistics of California's commercial catch of fish in graphic form so that certain relationships and significant features may be more readily recognized than is possible from consulting the published tables showing quarterly and annual totals. This bulletin presents the monthly catch figures for 1926 and 1927. These catch totals by months have been compiled by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries since the complete statistical system was inaugurated, which has proved of great service in the administration of one of the most valuable of the natural resources of the state. As monthly catch records have not previously been published, it is hoped that their presentation here will prove of interest and that this publication may become the first of a series of annual bulletins, each one of which will present and analyze the catch records of the preceding year.