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View of Chinese fishing camp against a hillside, circa 1889
Chinese drying shrimps and mending nets, ca. 1889
NOAA Photo Library
China Camp
Crustacean fisheries
California Shrimp Industry
The Chinese shrimp fishery in California
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 39, Number 6016, 11 July 1870
Contest Between Italians and Chinese
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 42, Number 7349, 2 December 1871
FISH AND FISHERIES IN THE BAY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 1, Number 238, 20 November 1875
PISCATORIAL.
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 2, Number 29, 25 March 1876
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE
Report of the Joint Special Committee to Investigate Chinese Immigration
February 27, 1877.
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 55, Number 7, 1 March 1886
PISCATORIAL COMMISSION.
Daily Alta California, Volume 42, Number 13643, 7 January 1887
GOVERNOR STONEMAN
San Francisco Call, Volume 67, Number 171, 18 November 1890
SMALL FISH
San Francisco Call, Volume 70, Number 148, 26 October 1891
CHINESE SHRIMPERS
San Francisco Call, Volume 72, Number 29, 29 June 1892
Chinese Devastation
San Francisco Call, Volume 72, Number 30, 30 June 1892
TONS OF FISH WASTED
San Francisco Call, Volume 72, Number 37, 7 July 1892
CHINESE FISH PIRATES
San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 145, 23 October 1895
APPARENTLY LICENSED TO VIOLATE THE LAW
San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 146, 24 October 1895
THE FISH COMMISSION USED FOR BLACKMAIL
Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 93, Number 56, 18 April 1897
WHAT THE NEW LAWS ARE INTENDED TO ACCOMPLISH
San Francisco Call, Volume 82, Number 116, 24 September 1897
"ALL'S FISH," SAYS JOHN CHINAMAN.
San Francisco Call, Volume 82, Number 117, 25 September 1897
ARRESTING THE FISH DESTROYERS
San Francisco Call, Volume 85, Number 93, 3 March 1899
CHINESE FISHERMEN CAUGHT RED HANDED
Los Angeles Herald, Number 239, 27 May 1899
THE SHRIMP SEASON Why They Are So Difficult to Get Nowadays
San Francisco Call, Volume LXXXVII, Number 82, 1 January 1900
BATTLE IN A CHINESE JUNK
Los Angeles Herald, Volume XXVIII, Number 227, 15 May 1901
SHRIMP CATCHER IN THE LAW'S NET
San Francisco Call, Volume 93, Number 85, 23 February 1903
NEW LAWS OF THE STATE (limit on shrimp season)
and
San Francisco Call, Volume 93, Number 167, 16 May 1903
Ah King arrested.
and
Sausalito News 8 August 1903
Ah King in State Supreme Court
and
Fish and Game Commission report
and
1903 Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California
San Francisco Call, Volume 97, Number 175, 22 May 1905
CHINESE TRY AN OLD DODGE
Sausalito News, Volume 21, Number 21, 27 May 1905
All Chinamen Look Alike
The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Legislature, 1905
and
San Francisco Call, Volume 98, Number 88, 27 August 1905
TEST CASE WILL BE MADE OF SHRIMP SHIPPING LAW
and
San Francisco Call, Volume 98, Number 101, 9 September 1905
Test case of dried shrimp law decision
and
San Francisco Call, Volume 98, Number 141, 19 October 1905
Dried shrimp law was ruled to be constitutional.
This law was repealed in 1919.
San Francisco Call, Volume 98, Number 165, 12 November 1905
Jack London "Tales of the Fish Patrol" published.
1905 Journals of the Legislature of the State of California, Volume 1
San Francisco Call, Volume 104, Number 56, 26 July 1908
PUTS CRIMP IN SHRIMP SUPPLY
San Francisco Call, Volume 104, Number 127, 5 October 1908
THE WILD SHRIMP
San Francisco Call, Volume 107, Number 106, 16 March 1910
DEPUTIES FAIL TO END WASTE OF FISH
1910 Biennial report / Fish and Game Commission
San Francisco Call, Volume 109, Number 97, 7 March 1911
Regulate the Shrimp Fisheries
March 27, 1911
The Journal of the Assembly
San Francisco Call, Volume 109, Number 121, 31 March 1911
NEW GAME LAWS MAY REMEDY SOME EVILS
and
Shrimp net law
1912 Journals of the Legislature of the State of California, Volume 3
San Francisco Call, Volume 114, Number 165, 24 November 1913
Shrimp Fishing Is Resumed by Chinese
CHINESE IMMIGRANTS REVOLUTIONIZED SEAFOOD IN CALIFORNIA