Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-27
COULD CUT FISH
COST ONE-HALF
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ming Star is trying to bring about
| That a vast amount of fish is al
| lowed to go to waste through the
Vaccinations of the workers in the
fish combine nobody can deny. The
| Star has statements to this effect In
its possession, given to 1t by
men who have long been in the fish
ing business. They state that during
the summer months, when there is
an abundance of food fish along the
coast, the market men will not take
the entire supply because it would
force the prices so far below the aver
age they would never be able to ex-
plain the tremendous increase when
the winter months arrive and the fish
is scarce.
Government Can Solve Problem.
Now, no more striking example can
be surmised or thought of for the pur-
pose of preventing all of this waste
than to have the United States gov
eminent take actual control Of the
fish, build suitable storage plants, OPP
crate them under the scientific sys-
tenn that the government applies to
all its undertakings, buy the fish
direct from the net fishermen and re-
tail them to the marketmen in the
under the regulation of the depart
ment at all times, resulting in re-
duction in the cost to the consumer
of one half, or making the fish that
now costs 20 cents a pounf 10 cents
a pound.
To a student of the situation it also
shows that what We now call in
ferior fish, and which is only inferior
because it has been given bad name
by amateur fishermen, such as the
ling, whiting and bake, will become
a staple article, as the government
officials would be able to show the
people that with proper cooking they
could utilize great quantities of these
species that now go to waste. When
the Almighty created the earth, He
showed great foresight in making
some fish to stand extreme cold
weather. while others can only
live where the water is warm;
fish, fiuke, sea bass, kingfish and
channel bass visit our waters in
the spring, remaining into the fall,
and when they leave they are fol-
lowed by the striped bass, founder
and Blacklist, and then when the cold
weather comes it brings to our very
doors the Goldfish. ling, bake and
whiting, so that all year round New
Jersey and the States north and south
of it have a constant supply Of food
fish within their borders, ready for
man to set the nets and catch them
for the purpose of sustaining life.
Men Become Negligent.
Surely man is negligent when he
permits the abuse of the wonderful
arrangement. and that is what the
State is doing when it permits the
large fisheries to fall under the con-
troll of few men who think only of
their profits. All through the series
of articles that have been written on
this subject by The Star, in its eff
forts to force some means whereby
the cost of fish can be lowered within
reason, there has not been denial
made by anyone concerned to show
that the statements or figures have
been wrong, all of which seems to
be convincing proof that the fish trust
exists, and this being the case, it
seems to be up to the members of
the Legislature to remedy the evil by
asking Congress, through the Byrnes
resolution, to take control of the mi
gratory fishes as 1t has taken control
of the migratory wild bird situation.
That Congress has in mind some
such regulation is shown by the two
bills now before it that proposes the
of rendering plants for
useless fish, the object being the con-
of food fish which are de-
stroyed by the sharks, rays and dog
hsh. which action was caused by the
many appeals made to the Congress-
men by the fishermen and that that
body will heed the requests of the
different States for protection against
the trust as well as to assure the
of the food fish supply,
Is seen in the two bills introduced
for that purpose by Congressman
of Maryland. All they
need is the backing. and New Jersey
Is now in a position to start that
with the Byrnes resolution