This bulletin is the fourth of a series designed to give detailed records of the catch of commercial species of fish landed in California ports. The articles are contributed by members of the staff of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the California Division of Fish and Game, who have had from seven to twenty years' experience in the administrative or research work of the bureau and of the California State Fisheries Laboratory. The statistical tables were compiled from records gathered under the state's statistical system, every member of the staff of the bureau cooperating in this program
