(jiurlcsy vj I'lirdiiitiiuil l'ir!iir.-s Carporadon 



A FINE SPECIMEN 

 Tili-fisli, redi.srovered in qiianlily about 1S98, was praclically unknown on the market until tlie latter end of 

 lOl.-j, when the United Stale-s Bureau of Fisheries induced Captain Carl C. Young, of C.loucester, to fit out a 

 schooner. Captain Young made four trips. He had diflicully in disposing of his first haul, but the Bureau 

 undertook to make the fish known, and before the fourth trip was over, tileflsh was seUing well and other men 

 were enthusiastically engaging in the lislK^ry 

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