Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-18


per cent protein and blue fish nearly
10 per cent.
No country in the world is richer in
fisheries than the United States. Our
long Atlantic and Pacific coasts. the
Gulf of Mexico and our great inland
rivers are capable Of supplying our
entire territory with an ADEQUATE
amount of fish all the year around.
In Alaska alone. the fisheries are ca
paole of enormous development. 1t ID
true that the Shad and salmon which
run up the rivers to spawn In the
and in some sections have entirely
disappeared by reason of the obstruc-
ton and poisoning Of our rivers by
mills and factories; but these losses
the inexhaustible supply that remains
In the sea.
The fact that Americans do not effect
the great national economy which
proper utilization of our fishery re-
sources would make possible can pc
ascribed to no cause except that We do
not know the food value of the nsnes
nor understand their preparation.
Americans abroad praise the Enghsn
whitehall. the flet of sole served IN
so universally eaten in Germany. YET
the sanddab Of the coast of southern
California is just as good fish as the
European sole. and the pompano OF the
south, the whiteflsh of the great lakes
and the mackerel and bluefish of the
Atlantic coast are fully the equal OF
the most priced piscatorial dellcacles
of Europe. The smoked salmon of Ger
many is very likely from our own "a
cific fisheries. In the five years De-
s11,500,00o worth of fresh and cured
salmon to Germany. The splendid
"steel-head" salmon of our Pacific fish
cries are frozen hard and sent to Ger
many to be eaten fresh, because there
is no home market where the COM
mand an adequate price.
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Many varieties Of fish eagerly sought
in Europe are not eaten at all in this
country ex-
Fish Eaten Abroad cept by our
Hardly Known Here. P forsign hor "A
soup considered a delicacy in Naples
is made from a fish closely related to
the "squid' of our waters, a creature
similar to the octopus. and used in this
country chiefly for bait. The "raie au
beurre noir" of Paris Is made from a
part Of the skate, or ray, which is
abundant along the American coasts,
but not salable in the markets. Many
an American would pay stiff price
for this dish in Paris, and smack his
lips over it, but If he saw one of the
fish from which it Is made in the mar
ket he would not know what it was.
The American housewife not only does
not know how to prepare the different
of fish, SO as to make them at
tractive, and Is entirely ignorant of the
sauces and salads that should accom-
pany them, but she does not even know
the names of more than a fraction of the
upon the market. In cities near
the Atlantic Coast there is a steady de-
mand for halibut. cod. bluefishfi weakfish
and panfish. but very few housewives
know what to ask for If they wish to
vary this list. Yet founder. haddock,
hake, herring, mackerel, pollock, soup,
sea- bass, smelts. whiting, ciscoes and
lake trout are obtainable in the markets
of the Atlantic states. a study of these
fishes and how to prepare them would
enable the average American housewife
to economic on her meat bill much
neck cuts of beef and mutton.
is the dogfish, so-called because he does
not in any way resemble a dog. There
being absolutely no demand for him on
the American market, the dogfish spends
his days preying upon the much priced
lobster. Between the dogfish and the
lovers of "a la Neuberg," the lobster is
now in danger of extinction. and the only
remedy seems to be to induce people to
eat dogfish. He is very palatable, hav-