The Chinese fishermen used a variety of different techniques and equipment to fish depending on their location on the bay. They caught a wide variety of fish including cod, halibut, flounder, yellowtail, king fish, and sardines.

On the more rocky areas, they primarily used lines with hooks to fish because the rocks made it difficult to use nets. They used salted sardines on their hooks as bait. The salt was used to keep the sardines from falling apart.

Around less rocky areas, they used gill nets. They are called gill nets because fish get their gills caught in the net. These gill nets had floats on the top and weights on the bottom to create a wall of net for fish to swim into. They used baskets to keep the lines and nets from tangling. Sometimes they would scare the fish into the net by floating a boat to one side of the net, and throw a long pole deep into the water at such an angle, that the pole would shoot back out of the water. When the net was full they would pull it up to the shore and collect the fish.

They dried most of the fish they caught using salt, and laying them out in the sun. Sometimes they would put the fish in jars with oil. This would keep the fish up to six months without rotting.