Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-31

that its fish product is enormous 1t is said
that 1t has more than a thousand different
varieties of fish, and that in Macao near
canton, one may have different kind of
Hsn every morning the year round The
Chinese must have much the same fish as
Japan They heve mackerel. herring, shark
ana carp. They have shell fish oysters
and prawns. shrimps and crabs The peo-
pie use cormorants for fishing. They have
d vast boat population and there must be
HShermen everywhere
Cormorant Fishing in Japan.
rs there any cormorant fishing in Ia
PAM"
Yes. l have brought back excellent pho
tographs showing how cormorant fishing is
zone, said DIR. Smith. Il do not know
Ihat the custom originated with the Japan
csc. out 1t is mentioned in Japanese iitera-
ture as far back as 700 A. d. The peopls
20 out with the cormorants, sometimes
using as many as sixteen birds to one boat
BEFORE the birds are started out a string is
:; ;.eu 1 eIsh.Iy ABOUT the neck of each to keep
II from swallowing the fish. They are also
tied by long strings to the boats Some
times metal rings are put around the throat
70 prevent the fish from sliding into the
stomach" The birds dive down into the
water and bring up the fish, whereuno, the
ooatmen pull them in, force open their hills
ana squeeze the threats until the fish dron
a fresh catch" io'
purpose?" ''a Inns
Yes, and they are also caught in tho.
t Mia,.er as they go southwark. Once trained
.hey VIII work for years, the birds living to
De nfteen or twenty years old. Some cor
morants are very skillfuI catching as MANY
as hundred fish per hour"
japanese Fish Canneries.
The japanese are developing their fish
cries from a commercial standpoint DIR.
Smith continued "They have canning and
picking establishments, and are putting M
all sorts of things for export Here is
copy of the catalogue of their ST. Louis fish
exhibit. 1t treats of everything from sar-
alnes 10 whales, and shows what they are
doing along various lines. The annual
catch of sardines is now more than % 600 900
pounds, and sardines are sold fresh dried
and salted. At the experimental fish sta
ton of Aichi-ken they have been sailing
down fresh sardines into barrels as an ex-
pertinent. and if there is a demand for
them million barrels may be easily cured
In that way in one year. In the past many
sardlnes have been pressed into guano and
sold for fertilizers. They are now being
put up in oil. A great deal of the herring
catch is used for guano, and this is so with
other fish,
do they have much salt mackerel?" 1
asked.
Yes. and the government has been pay
ing a bounty on mackerel cured after
mackerel to this country, but so far have
not been able to do so for lack of good bar
rels. AT present mackerel are sold in Kobe
at 50 per half barrel Some mackerel are
now being put up in oil. and this is so with
gray mullet and other fish,
Whale and Fish Oils.
You spoke OF whale fishing. Do they
have whales near JAPAN"
THE whale hunt is chiefly in the Korean
waters" said the fish expert. There is a
whale oil company which has three fac
tories in Japan and many stations on the
coast of Korea. 1t annually produces
,000,O gallons of whale oil. The japanese
are also making cod liver oil for medicinal
purposes. They make all they need them
selves and export a considerable quantity.
They make a fine clock oil from the dolphin,
and they have recently begun to make her.
ring oil, sardine oil and shark Oil Indeed
they are quite up-to-date in the use of all
their fish products"
FRANK G. CARPENTER.