84 AMKRICAN FISHKRIES SOCIKTY. 



application of scientific methods of refrigeration to the fish trade 

 that have long been in use could be seen. 



What London requires in order to have the price of fish re- 

 duced and the quality improved, and a cessation from talk ab(jut 

 "Billingsgate ring" and "Billingsgate monopoly," is to have a 

 more commodious market — a market with refrigerating appli- 

 ances, a market on the river side, easily accessible not only for 

 boats, but for cars, vans and all kinds of conveyances. 



Thus far it has been impossible to agree upon a new site. If 

 the market has t(j remain where it now stands, so checked for 

 space and difficult of approach, then if it be desirable to remedy 

 the patent evils, the streets leading to Billingsgate will have to 

 be widened. The postponement of the widening to a more con- 

 venient season will not lessen the cost. In 1862 the approaches 

 could have been widened for ^'88,000, and twelve years after- 

 ward the estimated cost was ^^525,000, and now, doubtless, it 

 would be much more. 



In cfjnclusion, 1 regret to say there is little, if anything, at 

 Billingsgate for American fish dealers to learn, except how far 

 in advance of them in every respect we are on this side of the 

 Atlantic. 



KEIURX OK THE QUANITrY OK FISH DEEIVEREl) AT Bl LLlN(;S<;ArE 



MARKET DURING THE YEAR 1883 — (JOHN LITTLE. 



CLERK, BILLINGS(; A IK). 



Land carriage. Water carriage. Total. 



Month. Tons. Tons. Tons. 



January 6,01 5>^ 2,949 ^.964}^ 



February S'S^sX I-969 Z-SS^X 



March 6,983X 2,622 9.605X 



April 6,394 3.9JI 10,305 



May 5-^98^ 4,765 10,66334 



June 8,536 4-679 13.215 



July 5.400 3.353;^ «.753>^ 



August 5,678 »3.486 9,164 



September 7.io4>^ 4.671 ii.775>4 



October 6,583X 2,028 8,6ii>^ 



November 7.4oi^4 1.984 9.385^ 



December... 9,i66X 2,529 ii,695X 



Total 8o,723X 38,946 >^ 1 19.669X 



