And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host John Hagadorn. Today a Jack London story called White and Yellow.

A remembrance from his days working for the Fish Patrol. And now White and Yellow by Jack London.

San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous to ocean-going

craft than is the ocean itself and its violent moments. its is plowed by the keels of all manner of fishing boats manned by all manner of

fishermen. To protect the fish from this motley floating population, many

wise laws have been passed and there is a fish patrol to see that these laws are enforced.

Exciting times with a lot of the fish patrol.

In its history, more than one dead patrolman is marked defeat.

And more often, dead fishermen seen laid across their illegal nets have marked success.

Wildest among the Fisher folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp catchers.

It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies

till it reaches fresh water when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt.

And where the tide ebbs and flows, the Chinese sink great bag nets to the bottom with gaping mouths into which the shrimp crawls and from which it is transferred to the boiling pot.

This, it itself, would not be bad, were it not for the small mesh of the nets, so small that the

tiniest fishes, little new hatched things not a quarter of an inch long, cannot pass through.

The beautiful beaches of Piedro and Pablo, where are the shrimp-catchers villages,

are made fearful by the stance from myriads of decaying fish, and against this wasteful destruction

it has ever been the duty of the Fish Patrol to act.

When I was a youngster of 16, a good sloop sailor at all-around bay watermen.

My sloop, the reindeer, was chartered by the Fish Commission, and I became for the time being a deputy patrolman.

After a deal of work among the Greek fishermen of the upper bay and rivers, where knives flashed at the beginning of trouble and then permitted

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