Historic Cannery Row
In 1927 cannery owner and fishing industry innovator Knut Hovden introduced new technologies to increase the catch and expedite the transfer of fish to the production line. By bringing purse seiner fishing boats (named for the type of nets they used into Monterey Bay, Hovden greatly expanded the volume of fish harvested.The archaic bucket-and-cable transfer method could not accommodate the larger catches, so Hovden devised a system of floating wooden hoppers. The hoppers were anchored to the seabed and connected to the canneries by underwater steel pipes. Marine pumps literally sucked the sardines into the canneries for processing or storage in concrete holding tanks through the opening in the deck.
The hoppers were built at the Monterey Boat Works and placed about 500 feet offshore from their respective canneries. They were marked and numbered for ease of recognition. A deckload of fish from Frank Manaka's Western Explorer is seen here making the transfer. Monterey's Japanese community made up about 20 percent of the local fishing fleet.
| HM Number | HM11BC |
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| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Thursday, October 2nd, 2014 at 11:50am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 10S E 598349 N 4052945 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 36.61696667, -121.90016667 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 36° 37.018', W 121° 54.01' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 36° 37' 1.08" N, 121° 54' 0.60" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 408, 831 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 720 Cannery Row, Monterey CA 93940, US |
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