The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-04-30

subject of the early manner of saltine fish, but there is no question but there has been a great advance made in the methods of curing fish for market There are 150 or more varieties of food
 fish. Of these only a very small pro-
 portion are salted in large quantities for consumption by the people. 1t IS well known that in European countries
 some varieties of fish are consumed as | food which in our own markets are
 considered valueless, but even in our I own country there is a tendency, as the
 more important varieties grow scarce, | to consume fish which have been con
 sidered unsuitable for food.
 The principal varieties of fish salted
 are the codf1sh, mackerel, herring, sal
 mon, alewives, shad trout hake, had
 dock, cusk and pollock. These varie-
 ties of fish probably make up nine
 tenths of the salt fish consumed by the
 people.
 The North Atlantic is probably rich | CT, both as to quantity and quality, l with edible fish than any other division of the globes waters and it may be | added that where it washes the coast of North America is it's richest subdici- sion.
 The salt groundish industry is locat-
 ed principally in Massachusetts, where the amount of codfish, hake, haddock, cusk and pollock salted in 1899 was 69,- 900,000 pounds.
 The codfish is synonymous with the name of Massachusetts, and, using the eloquent language of Representative Gallivan: Poised high aloft in the hall of Massachusetts house of repre- sentatives, riding serenely the sound waves of debate, unperturbed by the ebb and flow of enactment and repeal, all the Gesultory storms that vexed the neither depths of oratory, there has hung thrdough immemorial years an ancient codfish, quaintly wrought in wood and painted to the light. Hum ble the subject and homely the design yet this painted image bears on it's finny front a majesty greater than the dignity that art can lend to graven gold or chiselled marble. The sphere it fills is vaster than that through which it's prototype careered with all the myriad tribes of the great deep. The lessons which may be learned from 1t are mo- bier than any to be drawn from what is only beautiful For this sedate and solitary fish is instinct with memories and prophecy, like an oracle. It cele- brates the rise of free institutions. It emphasizes progress. It epitomizes Massachusetts.
 Tt typifies the world old simplicity of those who go down to the sea in ships, the goodly, godly race, whom the stately Scriptural story has immortaliz- ed, whose sturdy virtues the Saviour Himself distinguished in the choice of Peter, the Apostolic fisherman, and whose singular achievements on sea and land, in the arts, alike in peace and war, hace glorifled the annals of the com monwealth.
 While the Bank salt codfsh fleet at many of the New England ports Is a thing of the past, there has been ten- dency to salt fresh fish to supply the de- mand. The business of catching fresh cod and haddock during the last fifteen years has been carried on energetically, with the result of periodical gluts on the market. During these gluts large quan titles of fish have been split and Salted; if they happen to arrive during the sea- son for finnan haddies the haddock are smoked. The amount of this fish salted or smoked during the year 1898 was, roundly, 50,0O0O0O pounds. Thus a great salt fish trade has grown up subsidiary to the fresh fish trade.
 In the salt fish trade of the United States there is probably used in a year about 500,000 quintals of salt codfish hake, haddock, cusk and pollock, besides 100000 barrels of salt mackerel and 100,- 900 barrels of salt herring. The amount of smoked herring consumed aggregates L000,00O pounds In addition to this, there is a good deal of pickled salmon, f shad and other fish of minor import ance.-The Fishing Gazette