{"id":339,"date":"2023-12-18T16:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/?p=339"},"modified":"2024-01-15T03:50:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T03:50:22","slug":"west-coast-fish-bigger-faster-farther-market-influences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/18\/west-coast-fish-bigger-faster-farther-market-influences\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Fish &#8211; BIGGER, FASTER, FARTHER! &#8211; Market Influences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HERMOSA MAKES RECORD \/ LOSES IT TO GLENN MAYNE<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;The old passenger steamer <strong><em>\u2018HERMOSA\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, recently <em>converted<\/em> by <strong>WILLIAM MAGGIO<\/strong> (yes, <em>that<\/em> same \u201c<strong><em>Maggio<\/em><\/strong>\u201d family of which Baseball legend <em><strong>Joe<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>de Maggio<\/strong><\/em> came from!) of <strong>San Pedro<\/strong> <em>into a tuna fishing boat<\/em>, is making an enviable record in Southern California and Mexican waters.  During the last weeks of <strong>1928<\/strong>, she made three <strong><em>LONG-DISTANCE<\/em><\/strong> fishing trips, which totaled about 10,000 miles, without <em>any<\/em> adjustment of her main OR auxiliary engine.  The latter, a 45-h.p. Fairbanks-Morse diesel, made one 600-hour run and another 800 hours; <em>without<\/em> stopping.  This makes it possible to keep seawater constantly circulating in the <em>bank tanks<\/em>.  As a result, the fish not only are kept <em>alive<\/em>; but some of them were brought back to port considerably increased in size\u2026 (*The Point Here: These voyages showed that the \u2018Hermosa\u2019 could travel longer distances, and make the total cost [both FUEL &amp; OIL] at only <strong>*6\u00a2 per mile*!<\/strong>)\u2026, *<em>AND<\/em>* Not long afterward\u2026 &#8212; \u201c<strong><em>Editorial Note<\/em>:<\/strong> Since the above was written, the <strong><em>\u2018Hermosa\u2019<\/em><\/strong> has <em>lost<\/em> her position as the largest tuna boat on the Pacific Coast.  The <strong><em>\u2018GLENN MAYNE\u2019<\/em><\/strong> has come out from the <em>East<\/em> Coast to <em>fish out of<\/em> <strong>SAN DIEGO<\/strong>, and this vessel (formerly the deepsea tug <strong><em>\u2018Endeavor\u2019<\/em><\/strong>) is <strong>160\u2019 long<\/strong>, 31\u2019 beam, and 12\u2019 loaded draft, with a <em>capacity<\/em> of <strong>350 tons<\/strong> of iced fish and 160 tons of live bait and water.\u201d &#8212; <strong>*<em>Editorial Note<\/em>:<\/strong> Clearly, these working examples of larger vessels successfully, and *<em>economically<\/em>*, carrying larger loads of tuna did not go unnoticed by the PA \u2018<em>Power Brokers<\/em>\u2019 in the local tuna fishing fleet.  A &#8220;<em>new direction<\/em>&#8221; would be right around the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>(*Source: <strong>1929 Pacific Marine Review<\/strong> [annual] magazine \u2013 <strong>April<\/strong> ed. &#8211; Pg. 157)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HERMOSA MAKES RECORD \/ LOSES IT TO GLENN MAYNE &#8211; &#8220;The old passenger steamer \u2018HERMOSA\u2019, recently converted by WILLIAM MAGGIO (yes, that same \u201cMaggio\u201d family of which Baseball legend Joe de Maggio came from!) of San Pedro into a tuna fishing boat, is making an enviable record in Southern California and Mexican waters. During the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffmadruga.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}