16 COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 



overcome in obtaining this wide distribution and thereby increasing 

 the consumption of fish, since the butchers' shops and other stores 

 where perishable products are sold are compelled to have a supply of 

 ice, this being the only requisite for handling fish in a satisfactory 

 manner. 



It has been proved beyond doubt by the distinct success achieved by 

 the Dept. of Fisheries that fish can be handled in departmental stores in 

 the large Canadian cities, as well as in a great many cities of the United 

 States and, this being the case, it is only necessary for the dealers who 

 wish to develop a trade in fish with their customers, to set apart a 

 small portion of their store or shop where they should place a suit- 

 able refrigerator box, preferably with a glass cover, in which the fish 

 can be kept and inspected. By packing in crushed ice, a desirable 

 temperature may be assured and flies and dust kept away, so that the 

 fish may be kept in good condition up to the very minute that it reaches 

 the consumer. Besides the refrigerator box, all that is necessary is a 

 block on which to cut the fish and a special scale for weighing them, 

 so that a fish department can be installed with very little expense, 

 while providing all that is required. 



Economical ^^ careful methods in the handling and distributing 

 Substitute of fish from its source of production, through the 



for Meat wholesale and retail dealers, an economical and appe- 



tizing article of diet can be supplied that will help to do away with the 

 oft-heard complaint about the high cost of living. If we can succeed 

 in educating the public to the value of fish as a regular food supply 

 and as an economical substitute for meat, we shall not only furnish 

 our Canadian people with an excellent food at a comparatively low 

 cost, but we shall at the same time help to develop one of our great 

 natural resources. 



Export op Fish to England 



I might say in connection with the exporting of fish 

 to&e^War"* ^^^ *^^ progress that has been made, we are at the 



present time negotiating, or rather we have been 

 through our Canadian Government, with the Imperial Government in 

 England to help take card of the tremendous shortage in the fish 

 supply on the other side. Last August an inquiry came from the Dept. 

 of Agriculture and Fisheries in London, through the Colonial Secre- 

 tary, Rt. Hon. Bonar Law, to our Dept. of Trade and Commerce. Sir 

 George Foster and the Hon. Mr. Hazen, after consulting with some 

 members of the Canadian Fisheries Association, placed the matter in 



