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referring to the cold storage of fish are quite stringent, 

 but seem to meet with Httle or no objection from the 

 cold storage operators. Every concern carrying cold 

 storage fish must have a sign to that efifect, and fish which 

 have been in cold storage may not, under the law, in any 

 manner be represented or sold or advertised as fresh 

 fish. The seller must also inform the purchaser, either 

 by sign or word of mouth, whether the fish purchased is 

 fresh or has been frozen. There are other regulations 

 limiting the time cold storage fish may be held by the 

 retailers, and a similar system of checks and invoices is 

 arranged for, as in the case of fresh fish dealers. The 

 regulations, it may be said, are mostly the translation 

 into plain, everyday English of the more technical phrases 

 of the law and also naturally provide ways and means for 

 the enforcement of the law. This, in brief, covers the act 

 and regulations. 



During the past four months in a tour of various parts of 

 the state, observing many fish markets and methods of sale, 

 the need of such a law as has been briefly explained here has 

 been strongly evidenced. 



HOW FISH ARE MASQUERADED 



Considerable quantities of iish which appeared to be 

 below standard have been observed with little or no at- 

 tempt to distinguish between the grades both as to price 

 and quality. This is more noticeable in markets of the 

 cheaper class than in others. In many types of markets, 

 however, has been seen what at least can be termed eva- 

 sion of truthful terms; for instance, lowly pollock mas- 

 queraded as "Boston Bay Blues," and, in some cases, 

 was baldly and boldly labelled "Bluefish." 



Catfish, because of its close affinity to the name of 

 despised dogfish, and its own none too pleasant personal 

 appearance, appears, nicely skinned and steaked, on clean 

 white platters, temptingly marked "Whitefish." Natur- 



