page_title: Albacore
section_title: Commercial fishery
hierarchical_section_title: Albacore / Human interaction / Commercial fishery
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: appendixtojourna19151cali (find matches) Title: Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ... session of the Legislature of the State of California Year: 1853 (1850s) Authors: California. Legislature Subjects: Legislative journals Publisher: Sacramento&#160;: State Printing Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: aveapproximately $300,000 invested in buildings and their equipment.Besides this there are the boats, about 125 of them, worth at least$300,000 more. Following is a list of the canneries with their estimated capacity:Van Camp Sea Food Company, San Pedro.Formerly the California Tunny Canning Company. They can handle 3.5 tonsof dressed fish daily&#160;: put up the Van Camps Brand.White Star Canning Company, East San Pedro. Capacity, 15 tons daily&#160;; put up the White Star Brand.Southern California Fish Company. East San Pedro. Capacity, 15 tons daily; put up the Blue Sea Brand.United States Fish Packing Company, Wilmington. Capacity, 5 tons dailj.United Tuna Company, AVilmington. Capacity, 25 tons.Monarch Canning Company, Wilmington. Capacity S tons daily&#160;; put up the De Lux Brand.Los Angeles Tuna Canning Company, Long Beach.Capacity, 15 tons; put up the Panama Brand.South Coast Canning Company, Long Beach,(^ipacity, 35 tons; put up the Avalon Brand. REPORT OF THE PISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 121 Text Appearing After Image: 122 REPORT OF THE FISH AND GAME COMMISSION Lower California Canning Company, San Diego. Occupies the site of the former Roberts-Hume Fisheries Company&#160;; capacity,20 tons.Pacific Tuna Canning Company, San Diego. Capacity, 20 tons; put up the Catalina Brand.Premier Packing Company, San Diego. Capacity, 15 tons; put up the Premium Brand. Of these canneries the Southern California Fish Company has cannedsardines for several years. At least three others, the Lower CaliforniaCanning Company, San Diego, the South Coast Canning Company,Long Beach, and the Van Camp Sea Food Company, San Pedro, will cansardines this winter. The rest of the canneries are likely to soon becanning other varieties of fish, rather than allow their plants to be idlethe five or six months between tuna runs. These canneries will greatlyexpand the fishing industry of southern California. Improved methodsof fishing will undoubtedly be introduced. The taking of albacore withhook and line is rather a primitive method, but Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The albacore, known also as the longfin tuna, is a species of tuna of the order Perciformes. It is found in temperate and tropical waters across the globe in the epipelagic and mesopelagic zones. There are six distinct stocks known globally in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. The albacore has an elongate, fusiform body with a conical snout, large eyes, and remarkably long pectoral fins. Its body is a deep blue dorsally and shades of silvery white ventrally. Individuals can reach up to 1.4 m in length.
  Albacore are pelagic predators that eat a variety of foods, including fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods. They are unique among tuna in that their primary food source is cephalopods, with fish making up a much smaller portion of their diet. Reproduction usually occurs from November to February and is oviparous. An adult female can release over 2 million eggs in a single cycle. Fry generally stay near where they were spawned for about a year before moving on. Albacore form schools based on their stage in the life cycle, but also combine with other tuna like the skipjack tuna, yellowfin tuna, and bluefin tuna.
context_section_description: Albacore is a prized food, and the albacore fishery is economically significant. Methods of fishing include pole and line, long-line fishing, trolling, and some purse seining.
  The harvest of albacore tuna for commercial use began at the start of the 20th century. The migratory patterns of the fish brought droves of albacore schools near the coastline of southern California, which sparked the start of commercial albacore fishing. In 1903, 700 cases of albacore were used as an experimental pack which ultimately led to the development of the U.S. tuna-canning industry. The experiment was a huge success, and the commercial fishery expanded rapidly due to the high level of demand for canned tuna. By the 1920s, the industry expanded further and three other species of tuna, bluefin, yellowfin, and skipjack, were also being canned. Albacore tuna is the only species that can be marketed as "white meat tuna". The canning industry uses this label as a way to differentiate canned albacore from other types of tuna. 
  From 2010 to 2013, a study by Oceana, an ocean preservation organization, tested over 114 samples of tuna, and found that 84% of the white tuna samples were actually escolar.
  Many Pacific island countries and territories (PICTs) heavily rely on oceanic fisheries for economic development and food security. The albacore is one of the main four species of tuna that support oceanic fisheries along with the skipjack, yellowfin, and the bigeye tunas. Domestic tuna fleets and local fish processing operations contribute from 3-20% of the gross domestic product in four PICTs. License fees from foreign ships provide an average of 3-40% of government revenue for seven different PICTs. Processing facilities and tuna fishing vessels provide more than 12,000 jobs for workers in the Pacific islands. Fish provide 50-90% of dietary animal protein in rural areas of PICTs.
caption: Albacore being canned in San Pedro in 1915
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