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as the prejudice is overcome, to become 

 an important augmentation to the canning 

 industry. Properly prepared it is said to 

 be quite equal to beef, and, in view of 

 scarcity of foods in the next few years, it 

 should receive a good demand from Euro- 

 pean countries. Dog-fish, sold under the 

 name of gray-fish, is increasingly used on 

 the east coast (it would greatly assist the 

 sale if some of our good edible fish, such as 

 the cat-fish and dog-fish were renamed, for 

 there is no reason why they should con- 

 tinue under such unsavoury titles). Tile- 

 fish, a variety of cod-fish unknown in 

 European waters, are again an article 

 of commerce in the New England States. 

 This fish has a curious history, which it 

 would perhaps be worth while to relate here, 

 as it well illustrates the theory of migration. 

 The following is taken from the Canadian 

 Fisherman : 



One day in May 1879 a Captain Kirby of the 

 schooner Hutchings, out of Gloucester, Mass., was 

 trawling for cod on the outer edge of the banks 

 southward of Nantucket, in about 60 fathoms of 

 water, but without finding many cod. Suddenly 

 he began hauling in large fish of a kind totally un- 

 known to him and, as it proved later, entirely un- 



