Photo credit: Frans Lanting/Mint Images/Alamy The common murres-a seabird not much larger than a chicken-laid white elongated eggs with black spots that are much larger than chicken eggs and somewhat tough shelled that facilitated their easy exportation with minimal damage.Įggs of the common murre bird. They harvested elephant seals for their blubber, and fur seals, California sea lions and Steller’s sea lions for their pelts. The Russian traders were the first to exploit this natural resource. Just 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, are a group of islands called Farallon, that are home to the largest seabird colony in the United States outside of Alaska and Hawaii. The rapid rise in population of San Francisco led to the shortage of food, and once all the chickens and eggs in the Bay area had been devoured, people started looking elsewhere for their daily protein fix. One of the Farallon Islands with its many bird residents. ![]() ![]() Ships poured into San Francisco bay, and this small seaside settlement of about 200 residents mushroomed into a thriving town of 36,000. The rush for gold triggered one of the largest mass migration in American history that brought some 300,000 fortune-hunters from all over the world to the then thinly-populated ex-Mexican territory of California. The California Gold Rush of the 1850s induced another rush for a commodity, which, although not precious, became such rare and expensive that people literally killed each other for it.
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