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The Ventura Pier is owned and operated by the City of Ventura. The city acquired the pier in 1993 from the State of California. The California Department of Parks and Recreation owned the pier from 1949 to 1993. The city had previously owned the pier from 1940 to 1949. Before 1940, the pier was privately owned. [2] [3] [4]
An ancient basin for fish preservation in Tyritake, Crimea A fish-drying rack in Norway. Fish preservation is the method of increasing the shelf life of fish and other fish products by applying the principles of different branches of science in order to keep the fish, after it has landed, in a condition wholesome and fit for human consumption ...
The first industrial-scale fish cannery, a salmon cannery established in 1864 on a barge in the Sacramento River in California. A salmon cannery is a factory that commercially cans salmon. It is a fish processing industry that pioneered the practice of canning fish in general. It became established on the Pacific coast of North America during ...
Fish are preserved through such traditional methods as drying, smoking and salting. [2] The oldest traditional way of preserving fish was to let the wind and sun dry it. Drying food is the world's oldest known preservation method, and dried fish has a storage life of several years. The method is cheap and effective in suitable climates; the ...
The sculpture of the Indomitable salmon, installed March 5, 1974 at the Prairie Creek Fish Hatchery, currently outside Buck's of Woodside restaurant in San Mateo County, California. On 2 December 1964, Hatchery Superintendent Ken Johnson found a 2-year-old marked coho salmon swimming in a tank of newborn fish, exactly where he had been raised ...
The fish was estimated to be 9 to 10 feet in length, which was much smaller than the one recovered in La Jolla in August. ‘Doomsday fish’ spotted again: Another rare specimen washes ashore on ...
A dead oarfish found along the Southern California coast marks the state's third sighting of the so-called "doomsday fish" this year.. The roughly 10-foot oarfish was discovered on Nov. 6. at a ...
The oldest ocean-going steamship lost in the sanctuary's waters was the wooden sidewheel paddle steamer SS Yankee Blade, wrecked off Point Arguello in 1854 while carrying passengers, cargo, and gold from San Francisco, California, to Panama, during the California Gold Rush in one of the worst maritime disasters in the history of the United ...