Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . in marketing the use of traps is now universal on the Labrador, andthe fish taken is generally small, and owing to the short-ness of the season cannot be made into hard dry saltfish. It does not keep well, and is all rushed off tomarket together, with the result that the markets arealways glutted, and the returns small. The fish taken onthe Labrador banks is, however, of large size, and itwould seem a good plan to take it at once to somenorthern Newfoundland outport, where it could be curedin the same way as the fish caught on th
Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development . in marketing the use of traps is now universal on the Labrador, andthe fish taken is generally small, and owing to the short-ness of the season cannot be made into hard dry saltfish. It does not keep well, and is all rushed off tomarket together, with the result that the markets arealways glutted, and the returns small. The fish taken onthe Labrador banks is, however, of large size, and itwould seem a good plan to take it at once to somenorthern Newfoundland outport, where it could be curedin the same way as the fish caught on the Grand fish is worth, on an average, two or three dollarsper quintal more than the ordinary Labrador fish, andif it could be substituted, would add enormously to thevalue of the fishery to the fishermen and to the country. That most valuable fish,—the halibut,—also frequentsthis off-shore fishing ground. American vessels travelthere, 1400 miles and back again, solely for this seems possible that fast Newfoundland schooners may. THE BRITISH FISHERIES 425 make a splendid business of supplying fresh halibut tothe English markets from the Labrador banks. Thedistance is 1600 miles. It is a fish in great demand in England, where it sellsfor 5d. per pound, green. It is brought principally fromIceland. The practice has arisen in recent years, for steamers tobe employed to convey fishermen to the various fishingstations on the coast. Loud complaints have been madeagainst the use of steamers by those who have only theirschooners to take them down. They say the steamercrews take all the best trap berths. Petitions have beensent to the House of Assembly asking that a law bepassed forbidding the practice, and a bill to that effectactually passed that House, but was thrown out by theLegislative Council. Such a retrograde piece of legislation is greatly to bedeprecated. The wheels of progress cannot be stayed,and if the fishermen can get to their work quicker andeasier
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