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achieved, public confidence in the use of fish as a food 

 staple will be greatly increased, thereby bringing about 

 an increased demand for, and consumption of, Massachu- 

 setts-caught fish, to the end that the time-honored one- 

 fish-day-a-week will be relegated to the discard, and that 

 two and even three Fridays may become the rule and not 

 the exception in the food week program of every family. 



WILL BRING CONFIDENCE TO FISH-BUYING PUBLIC 



If the public can be educated to the fact that in buying 

 its fish dinner it is buying only good fresh or frozen fish 

 and that the dealer is, under the law, not allowed to ex- 

 pose for sale fish unfit for food (as has too often been 

 the case) ; also that the dealer is obliged by law to indi- 

 cate to the purchaser just what grade and what species 

 of fish he is buying, all in truthful terms, either by printed 

 signs or word of mouth, it is contended, and it would 

 seem reasonably so, that a state of confidence will be 

 set up in the minds of the buying public with the inevit- 

 able result that this same public will buy more fish, and 

 will eat more fish, that the average home will have more 

 fish days, and that fish as a food staple will come into 

 its own. 



This is the groundwork of the act to regulate the sale 

 and cold storage of fresh food fish, passed by the Legis- 

 lature of 1919. 



The immediate cause back of this new law was the 

 investigation of the fish industry which was conducted by 

 a special committee of the Legislature. That committee 

 in its report to the Legislature made many recommenda- 

 tions and the outcome of these recommendations is the 

 present act, under which the state inspector of fish operates. 



PROTECTS PUBLIC AND HONEST DEALER 



It should be emphasized that this new law imposes 

 no hardship. It does, however, protect the public and 



