Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries . VIEWS OF THE IRISH MOSS INDUSTRY OF MASSACHUSETTS. THE UTILIZATION OF SEAWEEDS IN THE UNITED STATES. By HUGH M. SMITH,Deputy U. S. Fish Commissioner. With seaweed resources certainly not inferior to those of Japan or any othercountry, and probably much superior, the United States may be said practically toignore these valuable products except at a few points on its extensive coast. Statis-tics recently gathered give the paltry sum of $35,000 as the value of the marine algaprepared in the United States in one year. The business is practically restricted toM
Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries . VIEWS OF THE IRISH MOSS INDUSTRY OF MASSACHUSETTS. THE UTILIZATION OF SEAWEEDS IN THE UNITED STATES. By HUGH M. SMITH,Deputy U. S. Fish Commissioner. With seaweed resources certainly not inferior to those of Japan or any othercountry, and probably much superior, the United States may be said practically toignore these valuable products except at a few points on its extensive coast. Statis-tics recently gathered give the paltry sum of $35,000 as the value of the marine algaprepared in the United States in one year. The business is practically restricted toMassachusetts, and is addressed to a single species, the Irish moss {Chondrus eris-pus). Considerable quantities of seaweeds are used as fertilizer on farms adjacent tothe coast, but this is not a commercial enterprise. In Monterey and Santa Barbaracounties, Cal., the Chinese fishermen dry certain algae , medicine, and fer-tilizer; in 1S99 the quantity prepared was 35,824 pounds, valued at &896. There is undoubtedly a good
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