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sounds are removed and dried. They are strung upon strings and hung either in the rigging or 

 in the cabin or forecastle of the vessel wherever there may be a fire or else, by the boat-fisher- 

 men, about the buildings on shore or on small hurdles or flakes made of old netting. The sounds 

 are sold to the agents of the isinglass factories, who make trips to all the hake fishing stations in 

 person, and ship their purchases to their employers by rail or steamer. The livers are sold to 

 persons at various points along the coast, who make a business of extracting the oil by exposure 

 to the sun or by the ordinary methods of boiling. 



The total catch of hake for the United States is about 33,000,000 pounds in the fresh condi- 

 tion, 90 per cent, of which is cured by drying. On thejiajce-trawls are caught considerable quan- 

 tities of cod, haddock, pollock, and cusk, which are split and salted with the hake and disposed of 

 in the same manner. 



According to Mr. A. Howard Clark, 25 per cent, of the boneless fish packed in Gloucester in 

 1880 were hake. In 1881 there was lauded in Gloucester from Eastport alone 180,000 pounds of 

 hake. 



