Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-02
PUBLICITY. ST|RS
!. THE FISH TRUST
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day the wholesale dealers of Fulton
Market will shut down on the Jersey
dealers and refuse to sell them fish
that comes from other States, such
as Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
and in order to prevent such power
falling into the hands of the monopo-
listic crew of Fulton Market, the
Star proposes to add this as one of
the many reasons why federal control
of migratory fish should prevail
Tons of Food Destroyed.
Another reason that caused this
movement is the fact that thousands
of tons of food fish are destroyed an
nually because the fish trust refuses
to buy them, and also refuses to per-
NIT the fishermen the right to sell
them to anyone else. True they don't
issue written orders against such a
thing, but let a pound-net man of
New Jersey sell his catch direct to
the dealers in the large cities of the
State, and that pound-net man will
be forced out of business in short
order because the trust would ref Use
to buy pound of fish from him when
he had more-than he could sell locally
and then. In order to further harass
the pound-net owner. the trust would
refuse to sell the Jersey retail dealer
such fish as he might need that is
caught elsewhere than in New Jer-
sey waters, as was previously stated
in this article, and thus force him to
refuse fish direct from the net, and
by this means the poundnet owner
would be driven from business be-
cause. of lack of patronage.
Incidents Are Cited.
In order to prove this statement the
following case is cited: Everybody
who journeys from Newark to the
coast resorts will remember seeing
from the car windows, as they passed
through South. Amboy and Lawrence
Harbor, the net men hauling their
SeineS on the beaches with their catch
of weakflsh and bluefish struggling to
get away, and they also noticed that
crowds of people were gathered about
waiting to purchase the fish. by the
pound or number, according to the
catch.
Just below these nets, but out of
sight of the train passengers, Is a
seine fishery that was operated by a
late Newarker who made a practise
| for his hotel table direct to this
city, where it was sold to any one
wishing to avail themselves Of fresh,
Jersey fish.
/ Persuaded to Ship to New York.
| Representatives of the fish trust
tried to dissuade this net owner from
sending his catch here, and finally he
did ship some to New York. A, few
years ago there was a record run of
| bluefish in the bay and this particu-
| lar net made a tremendous catch of
one and two-pound fish, and the fish
trust was informed of the fact and
they Immediately sent a represents a.
tive to the net owner and made an
offer for the catch which was salts
factory. but a proviso was attached Il
the offer that the fish was to be held
until the representative got back to
New York and communicated further
with his people. Now every whole
sale dealer In New York knew of that
catch, but not one moved finger tc
get them but the one firm, and they
kept the net man on a string, as Il
| were, until the fish started to show
signs of decomposition, and he was
forced to dig pits and bury almos
1000 blue fish in order to get rid O.
them.
1t was sample of the kind of pun.
ishment handed out to the net owner
VINO dareS 10 sell In opposition to thu
fish trust, and it was by such meth
DDS that the trust in New York ant
Philadelphia has secured control o
"a, 900 pounds of New Jersey
choicest food fish for which the Stat
receives $4,000 against the $4,000, %
gathered In by handful of men il
New York city who compel the PEG
pie of New Jersey to pay them
/, large portion of that vast amount 0
money in return for the privilege o
buying back the fish that belongs t.
the State of New Jersey.
No other State in the Union woul
permit of such a practise. and surel
no other State would let an income O
81, 600, 900 slip through it's fingers yea
after year, as New Jersey is doing II
permitting it's best asset to go owe
to the hands of non-residents, to tn
personal disadvantage of it's million
| of inhabitants