UC San Diego Library – Scripps Digital Collection

The 1929–1930 sardine season at Monterey, which started on August 1, 1929, and ended February 15, 1930, found an influx of purse seine boats to supply sardines for the canneries. The lampara boat replaced the purse seine boat in this fishery in 1905, and until the fall of 1929 it had a virtual monopoly on the delivery of sardines to the Monterey canneries. At the close of the first season of the purse seine "comeback," it was deemed advisable to present the Monterey catch statistics for the 1929–1930 sardine season so that a comparison could be made of the success of the two types of fishing boats.