COD, POLLOCK, HADDOCK AND HAKE. 361 
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An extensive fishery is carried on from Cape Ann for these fish in winter, 
and there are sometimes as many as fifty vessels engaged. It was esti- 
mated in 1878 that the total quantity landed at Gloucester was not far 
from 5,000,000 pounds. The fishing is carried on almost entirely at night 
with the use of trawls, which are about the size of those used in the capture 
of Haddock. 
Hake are salted and dried in the same manner as Codfish, and are often 
sold under the name of Codfish. Before the introduction of boneless fish 
it was sometimes difficult to sell them on account of the difference in 
appearance, but at the present time great quantities of Hake are put up 
in boxes under the trade name of ‘boneless fish,’’ the qualifying word 
‘Cod’ being usually omitted from the brands and labels. The Hake 
is not often eaten except when salted. 
The air-bladder, or sound, of the Hake is of great commercial value, 
being used extensively in the manufacture of isinglass; great quantities of 
sounds are sent from the British Provinces to the United States annually, 
sounds from the Gulf of St. Lawrence being considered much better than 
those from farther south. In 1880 New England produced 255,698 
pounds of dried sounds, worth $178,808. Massachusetts had eight isinglass 
and glue factories, employing one hundred and eighty-two men and a 
capital of $315,000, and producing $450,000 worth of ribbon-isinglass 
and glue in 1879. These sounds were for the most part derived from the 
Hake. 
THE SILVER HAKE OR WHITING, 
It is the opinion of certain writers, among whom Dr. Giinther is leader, 
that the Hake of Europe, AMer/ucius merlucius (or M. vulgaris of recent 
authors), is identical with the .species of Jer/ucius occurring in the 
Western Atlantic. This is, however, a mistake; the American form may 
easily be distinguished from that of Europe by the greater number of 
