COMMERCIAL FISHERIES OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. 465 
keeper, 1 assistant market keeper, 1 assistant fish inspector, and 1 
laborer, were employed. ; 
A serious competitor of the government market appeared on Noyem- 
ber 5, 1908, when a private market which had been constructed on 
Kekaulike street, between King and Queen streets, a former site of 
the government market, was opened for business. This market was 
constructed at an expense, including the value of the land, of $60,000. 
Like the government market, the greater part of it is devoted to the 
sale of fish, and the building is very conveniently arranged for this 
purpose. Many of the dealers in the government market left that 
place and took stalls in the new market as soon as it was opened, 
owing to the fact that it is more conveniently situated for catering to 
the Chinese and Japanese, who are the principal consumers of fish. 
During the short time the market was open in 1903 there were 26 
persons—8s0 Chinese, 7 Japanese, and 9 natives—employed in and 
around it in marketing the fishery products. The government fish 
inspector has charge of the inspection of fish in this market also, 
and is assisted by a native man, the latter being paid by the owner of 
the market. 
On February 6, 1904, a small market, containing six stalls, was 
opened at the corner of Beretania and King streets. An assistant fish 
inspector, paid by the owner of the market, is in charge, and works 
under the supervision of the government inspector. 
_A most comprehensive scheme for the marketing of fishery products 
was being worked out at the time of the present inquiry. A company 
was organized under the name of ‘‘ The Inter-Island Live Fish and Cold 
Storage Company,” and proposed to establish markets at convenient 
places within the city limits from which fish could be distributed 
expeditiously and without danger of loss from death and other causes 
incident to a tropical climate. Special means of water supply and 
refrigeration were provided, and every effort directed toward the 
preservation of the fish in fresh and wholesome condition as it reached 
the consumer. 
Cold storage is undoubtedly necessary in such a climate as prevails 
in the islands. As the law stands at present all fish brought to the 
market up to noon must be sold before evening or else thrown away. 
Fish arriving at the market after noon and remaining unsold when the 
market closes can be placed in cold storage for the night and again 
offered for sale, but must then bear the printed legend ‘‘ Iced fish.” 
The tables given below show, by months, the number of each spe- 
cies of fish inspected in the markets of Honolulu during the years 
1902, 1903, and 1904, and, as in the case of the Hilo market reports, 
are taken from the official report of the inspector. Here, also, the 
figures for mollusks and crustaceans are incomplete. 
F. C. 1904—30 
