Article: HOME PORT Where we live.(the fishing industry: Moss Landing, California)(Brief Article)(Illustration)

MOSS LANDING, CALIF.

 
THE TOWN 
 
Population: 362 
 
Fleet size: 125, jumps to 300 during 
salmon season 
 
TOP FIVE LANDINGS IN 1999 
 
(Most recent year available) 
By weight 
Sardines -- 34 million pounds 
Anchovies -- 1.7 million pounds 
Albacore -- 1 million pounds 
Salmon -- 650,000 pounds 
Dover sole -- 590,000 pounds 
By value 
Salmon -- $1 million 
Sardines -- $930,000 
Albacore -- $680,000 
Blackcod -- $540,000 
Swordfish -- $440,000 
 
SOME LOCAL BOATS AND THEIR FISHERIES 
 
Seaway -- squid and sardine seiner 
Della V -- blackcod longliner 
Kinchel'oe -- groundfish trawler 
Judy S -- albacore troller 
Vinland -- swordfish gillnetter 
Red Baron -- salmon troller  ...

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