[CINC] Fwd: P.S- NPR.org - 60 Years After Leaving, Porpoises Again Play In SF Bay

[paul jr petrich]

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Judy and all other Ocean People,
 Thanks Judy for the  "porpoise play again in SF Bay" story.  The history of the ship wrecked Del Rio , lying in Frenchy's Cove off Anacapa Island adds a P.S. to the story. As a purse seiner owned in part by my father, it often fished sardines in the San Francisco area. According to my father, and other crew members, the Del Rio was often filled with a full load of sardines caught INSIDE SF BAY prior to WWII. So, there was an ample food source for porpoise there. In late 1940 my father, and the other two owners, sold the Del Rio to the US Navy. Commissioned as the AMc 19 Grosbeak. She tended the submarine net deployed at the Golden Gate and served as a minesweeper during the entire war in the Bay area. My father, and many of the Del Rio's crew went on to serve on US Navy, US Coast Guard, or merchant marine vessels during WWII. The Navy sold the Del Rio back to its original owners in 1945.  By the time the Del Rio caught fire and sunk off Anacapa in 1952, with 70 ton of  sardines aboard, my father had sold his share of ownership.
  To get a vivid account of the original marine health of the San Francisco Bay, read Jack London's "Tales of the Fish Patrol". It covers a period of time in the very early 1900s when Jack London, and his fishing vessel, worked at patrolling the entire SF Bay and Sacramento River Delta for the California Fish and Game.    Paul
   

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