The Grace Quan in Richmond

As part of a program by the group Chinese Whispers, in collaboration with the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, the Park’s replica 19th century Chinese shrimp junk, the Grace Quan sailed to former Chinese shrimp fishing sites around San Francisco  Bay. They retraced the forgotten history of Chinese shrimp fishing in the area, to explore an overlooked and important segment of the San Francisco Bay Area’s maritime history, the story of the once-thriving Chinese shrimp fisheries. I toured the boat and heard the program when it came to Richmond, near the location of a camp that was at Pt. Molate in the early 1900s.