Download or read book Growth of Pacific Coast Pilchard Fishery to 1942 written by Milner Baily Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pilchard fishery of the west coast of North America was a minor one until stimulated by the war-born food demand of 1914-1918. Annual landings increased to 600,000 tons by the 1934-35 season and fluctuated about this level until the 1944-45 season. The year 1942 marks approximately the end of this period of growth of the fishery.