The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-01-30
Glutted With Fish.

'.1s fish plentiful or scarce to- 'ays'
asked a reporter of one of the whole
sale dealers in the Fulton Fishmongers'
Market, who was offering 'blueiish at
any price,"
Too plentiful" was the reply. 1--WE
are virtually giving fish away, and
thousands of pounds will have to be
given to the charitable institutions or
the poor this afternoon; for the glut is
so great that the supply cannot be sold
out at any price before the market
Closes
"What time is that?"
.'rour O'clock"
.What kind OF fish is most abund-
anti
"Bluefsh: although this morning
everything is plentiful. There has not
been such supply of bluefsh in the
market for twenty-five year. This
fish has not only been plentiful. and
therefore cheap, but it has also been o.
tine quality"
do You like fish to be scarce or
plentiful"
las we sell on commission it matters
little to us what price the fish is sold
at, providing the gross receipts of the
day aggregate WELL But when fish be-
come too plentiful, the handling of q
large quantity for small amount o.
money is not so agreeable as if the
sales Were smaller in quantity and the
price obtained larger. We like to make
rs much money as we can for the con-
signors: but they have to put up with
what the fish will realize This beng
the principal market day, there are al
than on other days of the week conse-
queIf1ly fishermen ibring in their
catches FOR TO days market, and this
sometimes causes glut.'
'.fow much fish is in the market to-
day."
Perhaps quarter of million
pounds Of the different varieties, of
which bluefish is the principal.
but | thought you generally froZe
fine fish for winter use whenever there
should be a gut of any particular kind
during the summer"
I'VE do. But the freezers are as fuil
now as they can hold of bluefish, and
there is no room or more. As the
market must be cleared out of fish,
under the law. by the hour Of closing.
and, as the fish an not be sold, it will
have 10 be gwen away. or the weather
is too hot to keep any of it over TO- 10
morrow's market = the prices realized
being too sma i to pay o. ice."
''is much ice used in the wholesale
fish market
"Yes. thousands of tons, but all the
ice that will reach the ma ket building
to-day would not keep the fish over un-
til tomorrow. Even if it could be 80
kept. there will surely be an additional
supply of fresh fish broug IN tonight
and tomorrow morning by both rail
and boat; consequently, if we do no,
get rid of to-day's surplus, the glut will
BE- greater to morrow"
..Where does this large quantity oil
FISH 60 TOP"
"All over. New York is the great
central distributing point. and the
quantity of fish packed up here and
sent away is very large. on ought to
come here when the hour for packing
is reached. You'll see busy place
them
elf to days surplus is sold cheaply in
the afternoon that is before YOU begin
to give the fish away-who will be the
1.-The fish peddlers. They generally
smell q glut in the market, and come
down in droyes. Well, they II get Ssh |
cheap enough this afternoon; but
the consumer will reap the ad |
J anita Q or not will dep nd on the con-
science of the peddler. ~ Y Nail
and Ezpress.