from the condition of fish from Chedabucto bay, Lockeport and 
Boston, which were sold in Toronto in the fall of 1917. We have 
no information as to their behaviour in cold storage after being 
frozen, but there is no reason for believing that they will stand :t 
less well than those ordinarily handled by that method. 
For that part of the year when they cannot be well handled in 
the fresh condition and for those parts of the coast that lack shipping 
facilities for the fresh fish trade, the curing of the fish by drying or 
smoking should be considered. We are informed by the Wm. 
Davies Co. that a demand exists for this fish filleted fresh. Each 
fish yields four fillets, one being cut from each side above, and one 
from each side below. It is fairly certain that smoked fillets of 
plaice would find a sale, and they would have the great advantage | 
of keeping longer and being transported more easily than the fresh 
whole fish. 
SIZE. 
The plaice reaches a length of two feet and a weight of as much 
as seven pounds. Twenty-eight fish that were caught on the line 
trawl in the gulf of St. Lawrence off Cheticamp, C.B., in the summer 
of 1917, were from 13 to 24 inches in length, with an average 
length of 163 inches, and from one-half to five pounds in weight, 
with an average weight of one and three-quarter pounds. The 
courtesy of Mr. Moore of the Queen St., Toronto, branch of the 
Wm. Davies Co. enabled me to examine seventy-seven fish, that 
had been sent toward the end of December, 1917, from Chedabucto 
bay by R. Hendsbee & Co., of Half Island Cove. These were from 
12 to 20 inches long, averaging 15 inches, and from 7 oz. to 2 lbs. 
10 oz. in weight, averaging 1 Ib. } oz. Mr. Sid Perkins of the 
Toronto market kindly permitted me to examine twenty-four fish, 
said to have been sent from Lockeport, N.S., and forming the last 
of a shipment and therefore probably small. They were from 113 
to 223 inches long, averaging 143 inches, and weighed from 7 oz. 
to 4 Ibs., averaging 15 oz. 
Although a nine-inch fish is considered marketable in Great 
Britain, it is probably not necessary for us to make use of fish any 
shorter than 12 inches, although in the bay of Fundy a lower size 
limit will be necessary if any number are to be taken. For that 
region the limit is a matter of indifference from the standpoint of 
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