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Fishing Fleet, Fisherman's Wharf
Pictured above are Monterey fishing boats, modern versions of the lateen-rigged feluccas that the Genoese fisherman sailed here in Fisherman's Wharf during the mid 1800s. Those northern Italian sailors handled their 16-foot boats around the bay catching sturgeon, salmon, crab, herring, mackeral, sardines, perch, and flounder. Their primary competition were the Chinese fisherman who worked off of San Francisco harbors in Marin and Hunter's Point. By the late 1800s these two fleets were challenged by southern Italian fisherman from Sicily, Palermo and Porticello. Together these three fleets were so skilled at fishing that the San Francisco Bay caught and sold more fish than the rest of the Pacific Coast combined, from Puget Sound to Puerto Vallarta.
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