. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. COD, POLLOCK, HADDOCK AND HAKE. 361 . ^ An extensive fishery is carried on from Cape Ann for these fish in winter, and there are sometimes as many as fifty vessels engaged. It was esti- mated in 1878 that the total quantity landed at Gloucester was not far from 5,000,000 pounds. The fishing is carried on almost entirely at night with the use of trawls, which are about the size of those used in the capture of Haddock. Hake are salted and dried i
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. COD, POLLOCK, HADDOCK AND HAKE. 361 . ^ An extensive fishery is carried on from Cape Ann for these fish in winter, and there are sometimes as many as fifty vessels engaged. It was esti- mated in 1878 that the total quantity landed at Gloucester was not far from 5,000,000 pounds. The fishing is carried on almost entirely at night with the use of trawls, which are about the size of those used in the capture of Haddock. Hake are salted and dried in the same manner as Codfish, and are often sold under the name of Codfish. Before the introduction of boneless fish it was sometimes difficult to sell them on account of the difference in appearance, but at the present time great quantities of Hake are put up in boxes under the trade name of "boneless fish," the qualifying word "Cod" being usually omitted from the brands and labels. The Hake is not often eaten except when salted. The air-bladder, or sound, of the Hake is of great commercial value, being used extensively in the manufacture of isinglass; great quantities of sounds are sent from the British Provinces to the United States annually, sounds from the Gulf of St. Lawrence being considered much better than those from farther south. In 1880 New England produced 255,698 pounds of dried sounds, worth ;J|i78,8o8. Massachusetts had eight isinglass and glue factories, employing one hundred and eighty-two men and a capital of 1315,000, and producing 1^450,000 worth of ribbon-isinglass and glue in 1879. These sounds were for the most part derived from the THE SILVEB HAKE OS WHITDTG, It is the opinion of certain writers, among whom Dr. Giinther is leader, that the Hake of Europe, Merludus merlucius (or M. vulgaris of recent authors), is identical with the . species of Merlucius occurring in the Western Atlantic. This is, however, a mistake; the Americ
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