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I shall refer again to this matter in another part of my 

 Paper. 



On the subject of fish-curing, I think that if the goggle- 

 eyes were cured by the same process, and with equal care 

 as the herring in this country, and the jack, as the mackerel 

 in Newfoundland, a market would be found not only in 

 Europe, but also in the Catholic parts of Southern America. 



Such a harvest of the sea should not go ungarnered, and 

 the Red Snapper and Grouper should be exported in tins. 

 There is already a demand for these two fishes in America. 

 The United States alone, after its own consumption, 

 exports of fish in tins six hundred thousand pounds 

 (;^6oo,ooo) in value annually. 



Among waste products I suggest the skins and bones 

 of fishes being utilized for the manufacture of glue and 

 isinglass in the colony itself. On this subject. Professor G. 

 Browne Goode says in his Paper on the fisheries industries 

 of the United States : 



" The utilization of secondary products of certain fisheries by 

 adding in an appreciable degree to the profits of each person 

 engaged, has proved an important impetus. Mr. Earll has de- 

 monstrated that the secondary products in the cod fisheries 

 amount to more than 14^ per cent, of the value of the fish as taken 

 from the water, raising the receipts of several important ports by 

 about one hundred thousand dollars (100,000) each." 



Dried Green Turtle and other preparations of Turtle from 

 Jamaica which I introduced to the notice of a number of 

 experienced gentlemen at a special luncheon which I gave 

 for the purpose, were pronounced so excellent that it was 

 even asserted that these preparations were far better and 

 richer flavoured than any to be procured in England, made 

 from fish brought alive to this country. As the same 

 Turtle is to be obtained in the neighbouring waters, there 



