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Mr- Feilding: There is a plant at Wick in the north of Scotland 

 where they make a most agreeable foodstuif for human use called 

 ' Marvis.' At one time it had a large market for making fish soups 

 and soufHees and anything you could make with fish meal. I used it 

 and it was most agreeable and useful stuff to have; it would keep 

 almost indefinitely, you could transport it anywhere, it was palatable 

 and its protein value was high. The heads, tails, and what you might 

 call the offal, including the vertebral columns, were removed. 



Mr. Cowie: One reason for the industry not being developed in 

 Canada lies in the fact that, until recently, the fish business has been 

 practically a salt-fish one. The fish have been headed and gutted and 

 split out at sea, whereas at Wick the ' Marvis ' was made chiefly from 

 the fresh cod head, etc. But, on this. side of the Atlantic, until com- 

 paratively recent years, all of that material has been disposed of at sea. 



Mr. White: Are the dog-fish treated in the reduction works 

 caught systematically or are they caught incidentally to the other 

 fishing ? 



Proe. Prince : In both ways, but the major portion of the dog-fish 

 have been caught systematically by fishermen going out for them. 

 The main reason for this is that, when they are around, other fishing 

 ceases. Still, a number have been brought in that were caught by 

 fishermen when fishing for other fish. The price paid, $4.00 a ton, 

 proves sufficient remuneration to induce them to go fishing systemati- 

 cally for them. 



Mr. White : Could you not pay a lower rate and have the fisher- 

 men throw them overboard without their taking them to the reduction 

 works ? 



Proe. Prince : That is one of the suggestions in my report, not to 

 trouble about the reduction works. The main object is to get rid of 

 the dog-fish. But the idea prevails that the fish should be turned to 

 some useful account. A Minister of the Crown told me that the fish 

 ought not to be wasted but should be made into food. He was so 

 strong on that point that it was one of the principal reasons why I had 

 Prof. Macallum of Toronto make a laboratory analysis of the dog-fish 

 flesh to ascertain its nature. Unfortunately, his report is not yet 

 published and possibly I gave information about the presence of urea 

 prematurely, but that is one of the things he found in his researches. 

 The extermination of the fish is the main object, to be attained by any 

 means whatever, and possibly the plan of catching the fish and dumping 

 them overboard after killing them is well worth trying. 



