866 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



queutly in much larger numbers, it will almost become necessary to 

 smoke tbem in order to avoid a waste. All tbe smoking establish- 

 ments, however, should be under strict government supervision, so that 

 no fish are smoked which have spawned and are in a poor sickly condi- 

 tion, and might produce epidemics if extensively used as an article of 

 food. Such fish and all the other refuse might be mixed with alkaloids 

 and make a very excellent fish guano. In the above I have only briefly 

 indicated the great importance of raising "maifische," and I only hoi)e 

 that we may soon succeed in raising millions of these useful fish. 



