Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-03
THE LOS ANGELES FISH MARKET.
It's Great Extent and Excellence-Far in
Excess of that of San Francisco in Its
Universally and Estimation Amongst
the Judicious-Its Great Future.

1t Is not universally known that Los
Angeles has one of the finest fish mar
kets in the world. 1t is quite generally
assumed that San Francisco enjoys tre-
mendous advantages over us in this
line, but this is a sheer mistake. The
boot is on the other leg.
As Introductory to a treatment of this
matter, the fact ought to be borne in
mind that the supercilious easterner is
accustomed to vaunt the superiority of
the fish market of New York over that
of San Francisco. There is no war
rant in this claim. AS a matter of fact,
the Golden Gate has the finer market OF
the two. There are some specialties in
New York that are not obtainable in
San Francisco, but, on the other hand
the latter city leads Gotham both in the
number and variety of her fnny
treasures. The salmon is common to
both points, while the crawfsh of
the Pacific coast is indescribably finer
than the famed lobster of the east.
Another speciality OF San Francisco is
the abundance and immensity of her
crabs. How often has the writer heard
easterners go into ecstacies over the big
crabs, fished in such plenteous measure,
out of the bay, the soft-shell crabs also
being unsurpassed in both abundance
and flavor.
Yet, abundant and various as are the
fnny treasures of the San Francisco
markets, they are as nothing compared
to those which may be developed in the
immediate neighborhood of Los An
geles; that is to say, in the creeks and
on the coast between Long Beach and
Point Dune They are illimitable in
number and genus, and they include
equally the crawfsh and the razor clam,
the pompano and the perch and yellow
tail, the barracuda and the croaker. We
have the pompano, the most priced fish
on New Orleans tables, though we re-
gret the absence of the sheepshead and
redsnapper of New Orleans.
The Things We Lack.
When Thackeray went to New Orleans
he went into ecstacies over the oysters
and the fish there, but he was under the
influence of the Gulf breezes while he
stayed there. As matter of fact and
confession, however, we do not possess
the superb oysters OF New Orleans and
Mobile, and it is doubtful whether our
copper-havored oysters of the bays of
San Diego and Puget sound come up to
any eastern standard. We lack, also,
the blue-fsh, the cod and the shad,
although cod are caught in large num-
bers up north, and shad have been in
| troduced into our rivers most success
fully.
What We Have.
Below we append list OF the fish
which are caught in our local waters,
between the headlands named. Surely
here is a variety sufficient to entrance
the palate of both gourmound and
gourmet:
Abalone, albicore, anchovy (white-
bag), angel fish (moonfsh), barracuda,
bass (little), bass trock), bass (spotted) =,
bass (striped), bass yellow, rock bass,
blue black blue fish, (horse mackereD,
blue fish (sea bass), bonito (cobia),
bonito Striped bonito), carp (German), J.,
cat (sea), catfish (salt water), clam
hard, clam long, clam razor, clam round,
clam sea, clam surf, cod, crab rock, crab
sea, crab spider, crab eater, crawfish,
crevalle (herre) croaker (drum), croaker
(surf fish), devil fish dolphin (porpose),
eel (conger), founder tdiamond), floun-
der (winter), gar, Garibaldi, grampus,
4 granper (black perch), grouper Gew-
fish), grouper (red), hake California;, ,
halibut, herring common or sea-, jew
fish (black grouper), Jewish California;
kelp fish, kingfish (cero), kingfish
(hake), kingfsh (whiting), lamper eel
(muttonfsh) ,mackerel, ,mackerel (herre),
blue-fish, mackerel Monterey, mackerel
ship, mullet white, mussel, oyster Cali
formal perch (black bass) perch (black)
perch 1pike), perch (red), perch (yel-
low, pilot fish, plaire, ,pompano (Califor-
nia), porgee, porpoise barker, prawn
common, queen fish, ray butterfly, ray
eagle, ray sting, rock fish (striped bass),
rock yellow, roncador little, roncador
yellow finned), salmon (white), sardine
California, savanilla, scallop, soul
pin, soup, sea bass fBlackwill),
sea trout (white sea bass, seal (hooded), ],
seal (ribbon), shark (blue), shark tdog-
fsh), shark (mackerel), shark (oil,,
shark (shovel-nosed), shark (tiger),