The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-20
FIGHTING THE GERMANS WITH FISEE-By Frank Carpenter

by the bureau of fisheries to have been 1.4oo,OOO.oOO. Within the past few years the tilefish has come back, and the hu- reau of fisheries has brought them into the market for sale. It has shown the people that they are an excellent sea food, and the result is that 12,00O eoe pounds were caught and sold last year. The fish is now one of the most popular in New York and Boston, and it will soon be eaten all over the country.
 Another fish which until now has gone to waste is the spiny dogfish, which the bureau of fisheries has dignified with a new name. The scientists here had in- vestigated the flesh or this animal. They found it excellent. but they did not dare to put it forth to the people under the name of dogfish for fear of the preju- dice concerning 1t. They gave it a new trademark, ''the grayfish," and as such
 1t promises to become one of our most common sea foods, fresh and canned. They are now canning grayfish on the coast of Massachusetts, and it is ex- pected that the salmon canneries of Pu- get sound will put it up during the win ter, when there are no salmon to pack.
 The grayfish is found in both the At lantic and the Pacific. It travels about in great schools. besieging the fishing grounds and eating or driving away every fish which is too big to be swal-
 lowed. It is one of the robbers of the sea, and eats even the bait of the fish ermen, tearing their nets to pieces with its sharp teeth which cut like shears. Not only is the flesh good to eat, but the liver is valuable for oil, and the eggs are sold to the leather trade. The eggs are said to be matched within the body of the mother, and are as large as the yolk of hens eggs. Although the canned product was first known in 1916, grayfish is now selling on the market of 30 states of the union. It has been han died by the dealers of 12S towns in New York and Pennsylvania alone and It is cheaper than salmon, a can costing only 10 cents. The bureau of fisheries has book of recipes telling how to cook it.
 A valuable sea product whose name has been changed by the scientists of the bureau of fisheries is the black cod, which is found in great quantities off our Pacific coast all the way from San Francisco to Alaska. The name of this has been changed to the "sablefish" for the reason that it is not cod. in it's family, structure or edible qualities. Cod fish is dry, whereas the meat of the sa- bleffsh is sull of fat The fish averages l5 pounds in weight and it can be shipped fresh or frozen all over the country.
 Until recently this fish was regarded a nuisance and millions of pounds of it were thrown back into the sea. Now that the bureau of fisheries has shown it's value, it is becoming one of the most popular of sea foods. It began to be exploited under the name of the sable fish only about a year ago, and by last June more than 100000 pounds Of the frozen fish and over 100000 pounds of the fresh were sold by the dealers. It is now used all along the Pacific coast. and it will eventually find it's way into every town in the country.
 But it is not only from the oceans that our new supply Of fish food is to come. The bureau of fisheries is call- ing the attention of the public to some fishes of the great lakes, which until now have been practically neglected. One of these is the burbot, which might be called the fresh water cousin of the cod. It's meat is very much like that of the cod and it may be cooked the same way. The bureau of fisheries has a dozen or more special recipes for it's preparation. It was only last spring that attention was called to the burbot as a food possibility, and already more than half million pounds of it have been marketed by the wholesale fish dealers. A vast quantity will be caught and sold this season and 1t is likely to