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  A 
  waste 
  product 
  of 
  some 
  importance 
  is 
  founded 
  upon 
  

   the 
  boneless 
  fish 
  industry, 
  the 
  makers 
  of 
  fish-glue 
  con- 
  

   suming 
  yearly 
  over 
  1,000,000 
  pounds 
  of 
  fish-skins, 
  and 
  the 
  

   production 
  of 
  glue 
  and 
  isinglass 
  in 
  Massachusetts 
  in 
  1880 
  

   amounted 
  to 
  $ 
  450,000. 
  

  

  3. 
  A 
  third 
  source 
  of 
  encouragement 
  to 
  the 
  fishermen 
  has 
  

   been 
  the 
  greater 
  attention 
  paid 
  by 
  our 
  people 
  to 
  the 
  art 
  of 
  

   cookery, 
  and 
  the 
  increasing 
  fondness 
  for 
  the 
  luxuries 
  of 
  the 
  

   table. 
  Fish 
  is 
  ordinarily 
  very 
  cheap, 
  but 
  extravagant 
  prices 
  

   are 
  paid 
  for 
  brook-trout, 
  and 
  for 
  the 
  choicer 
  varieties 
  of 
  

   sea-fishes 
  such 
  as 
  the 
  pompano, 
  the 
  Spanish 
  mackerel, 
  

   the 
  king-fish, 
  and 
  the 
  sheepshead, 
  and 
  especially 
  for 
  the 
  

   earliest 
  shad 
  or 
  salmon 
  of 
  any 
  particular 
  river. 
  The 
  

   importation 
  of 
  foreign 
  delicacies 
  like 
  sardines, 
  anchovies, 
  

   and 
  caviare, 
  is 
  increasing, 
  though 
  excellent 
  imitations 
  of 
  

   them 
  all 
  are 
  put 
  up 
  by 
  our 
  own 
  manufacturers 
  in 
  large 
  

   quantities, 
  and 
  in 
  cans 
  so 
  like 
  those 
  imported 
  that 
  only 
  

   experts 
  can 
  recognise 
  them. 
  

  

  The 
  growing 
  taste 
  for 
  angling 
  among 
  our 
  people 
  has 
  had 
  

   its 
  weight 
  also 
  in 
  promoting 
  this 
  tendency. 
  Still 
  more 
  in- 
  

   fluential 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  annual 
  dinners 
  of 
  the 
  " 
  Ichthyo- 
  

   phagous 
  Club 
  " 
  of 
  New 
  York, 
  organized 
  for 
  the 
  purpose 
  of 
  

   introducing 
  into 
  use 
  varieties 
  of 
  fish-food 
  hitherto 
  unrecog- 
  

   nised. 
  Another 
  similar 
  cause 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  diffusion 
  of 
  

   knowledge 
  concerning 
  the 
  fisheries 
  of 
  other 
  countries 
  and 
  

   the 
  fishes 
  elsewhere 
  esteemed, 
  and 
  the 
  dissipation 
  by 
  

   chemists 
  of 
  the 
  superstition, 
  once 
  prevalent, 
  that 
  fish 
  is 
  not 
  

   a 
  nutritive 
  food. 
  

  

  4. 
  As 
  a 
  direct 
  consequence 
  of 
  the 
  extending 
  oppor- 
  

   tunities 
  for 
  the 
  disposition 
  of 
  the 
  products 
  of 
  the 
  Fisheries, 
  

   improved 
  apparatus 
  and 
  methods 
  have 
  been 
  devised 
  by 
  

   which 
  the 
  relative 
  expense 
  of 
  capture 
  has 
  been 
  decreased. 
  

   All 
  devices 
  are 
  shown 
  in 
  the 
  exhibit 
  of 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  

  

  