COD, POLLOCK, LLADDOCK AND LIAKE. 



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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 1S78 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 iSSo New England ])roduced 255,698 

 pounds of dried sounds, worth $178,808. Massachusetts had eight isinglass 

 and glue factories, employing one hundred and eighty-two men and a 

 capital of $315,000, and producing $450,000 worth of ribbon-isinglass 

 and glue in 1879. These sounds were for the most part derived from the 

 Hake. 



TEE SILVER HAKE OR ^rniTIN'G, 



It is the opinion of certain writers, among whom Dr. Gunther is leader, 

 that the Hake of Europe, Me?-luchis vierlus (or J/, vulgaris of recent 

 authors), is identical with the species of Merhicius occurring in the 

 Western Atlantic. This is, however, a mistake ', the American form 

 may easily be distinguished from that of Europe by the greater number of 



