Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-08
SALT WATER FISH
ARE AVAILABLE.
Food Administration Endeavor
ing To Restore Production Of
Fish To Normal.

Shortage in the supplies of salt
water fish on the Atlantic seaboard
during the winter and early spring
months has been largely remedied.
This shortage was due to the neces-
sary taking over of trawlers for naval
purposes and the recruiting of deep
sea fishermen by the Navy. The traw-
Ter production of deep-sea fish has now
been materially increased by free ad-
mission of Canadian trawlers and by
new construction. Beyond this. Ger
tain State restrictions on iittoral fish
ing have been lifted.
On every day in each week and con-
tinuously during the present season
from May TO December, some of the
many varieties OF salt fish Will be
available and sold in wholesale mar
kets along the Atlantic coast at prices
ranging from 1 10 cents per pound
In view of these conditions, the retail
ers in the large cities along the At
lantic coast and in the towns and
cities of the interior, within readable
transportation distance from the At
lantic. seaboard. will be able to sell
fish at a retail price TO consumers of
10 cents per pound or under Any re-
tail dealer who does not conform to
| these conditions and offer at least one
kind of fish to the public at the maxi
mum retail price mentioned is not pa
| triotically cooperating with the Food
| Administration or with his customers.
The particular variety sold by the
| retailer on this 10-cent basis must
necessarily vary from day TO day with
| the available supplies. Fish now
available on the low-priced basis in
| clude market cod, scrod cod, scrod
| haddOck, medium hake, skate wings
grayfish, ling, founders, shad herring,
| herring, whiting. croakers, butterfish
| (smalD, spotted trout (smalD, weak
| fish (smaln, small shad (known as
| jacks or skips), tinker mackerel, squid
| small Boston mackerel, drum, men,
| baden, shark, sea robins, spots 9th
ers will be added as the runs of the
| shore varieties strike on through the
| different Atlantic coast districts in
| heavier volumes.
The country was threatened with
what amounted to a fish famine dur
ing the winter. The shortage arose
Fundamentally from the necessities of
the Navy in requisitioning deep-sea
trawlers and other fishing vessels and
! in recruiting fishermen for naval serv-
ice. How important this has been
| may be seen from the fact that the
trawler capacity supplying the New
England districts was decreased last
summer from an annual capacity of
approximately 60,000.000 to $4,000, 600
pounds
A substantial number of new traw-
lers are now on the ways and APP
preaching completion. Owing to the
action of Secretary Rerfield in open
ing up our fishing ports to Canadian
vessels, several Canadian trawlers are
now fishing to our markets There is
every prospect of acquiring trawlers
from the Scandinavian fisheries for
use in this country. In the meantime
the relaxation of State regulations
that have been effected by the Food
Administration should tend to increase
greatly the production of the shore
fisheries and its reflex will be steadily
shown in the wholesale prices of fish
as the season progresses.
With the approach of next winter.
the Food Administration is confident
the deep-sea fishing and the winter
production of ground fish through the
various sources indicated should be re-
stored to normal.