12 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



and remove the fish to the deck of the vessel. This method obviates the 

 necessity of using bait and also permits fishing to be carried on during 

 stormy or rough weather, so that the supply is more regular, although 

 the cost of these steam trawlers, as well as the expense of Operating 

 them, is necessarily much higher than the apparatus required by the 

 older method. 



„ . . A large and profitable trade has been carried on for 



Codfish nearly two hundred years in our Canadian codfish, 



which, for foreign markets, is cured by saltirig and 

 drying. These fish find a ready sale, not only in the various Mediter- 

 ranean ports, but also in the West Indies, Brazil and other South 

 American countries. Large quantities of codfish, haddock, hake and 

 pollock are also salted and partly dried for the requirements of the 

 United States markets; while on the Pacific coast, during the last 30 

 years, there has been built up a very large and profitable fishing industry 

 in connection with our Pacific salmon, which are now exported to 

 nearly all parts of the world in cans; a lucrative trade has also been 

 developed in mild-cured, pickled salmon, quantities being exported to 

 Central European countries, while in more recent years another im- 

 portant business has been built up in the handling of fresh and frozen 

 halibut and salmon. Large cold storage plants have been established, 

 where the fish are frozen promptly after being taken, and are later 

 shipped in refrigerator cars to all parts of Canada and the United 

 States, while within the past few years some trade in frozen fish has 

 been developed for export to Europe. 



Fishing Qn our Great lakes there is a very large fishing indus- 



Great Lakes try carried on, not only during the summer and fall 

 months, but also in mid-winter, when -the fish are 

 taken through the ice and, owing to climatic conditions, can be trans- 

 ported long distances without requiring expensive methods of refrig- 

 eration. They are frozen naturally as soon as taken from the water 

 and are shipped to various centres in the United States, especially in 

 the Western states, although there is a growing demand for Canadian 

 lake fish in Eastern markets alsd. 



I regret to say that the greater portion of the Canadian lake-fishing 

 business is controlled by United States firms and this is due to the 

 fact that more than 90 per cent of the total output finds its market 

 in the United States. 



