Chinese Fisheries - Monterey

 

William Seltzer Rice

  1873 - 1963 (biography)

c. 1940  

drypoint 

8 5/8 x 11 5/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

15 of 20  

pencil titled 

e-cc14 

cream wove 

 

 

RRT717 

SOLD

According to the Monterey County Historical Society, the first Chinese inhabitants set up camp about 1851 on the cove of Point Lobos. They discovered the bounty of the bay and set up other fishing settlements at Pescadero and Point Alones near what is now Cannery Row. These skilled Chinese seamen launched the first commercial fishing industry in Monterey, taking first abalone and later other varieties of fish including cod, halibut, flounder, yellowtail, sardines, squid and shark--as well as oysters and mussels from the bay waters. It was a common sight to see the unique Chinese fishing boats setting off from the shanty-like village at "China Point." regionalist