510 AMERICAN FISHES. 
more advanced ventrals and its general whitish color, but its back is a 
dark iron-gray. It often grows to a length of a foot and becomes very fat 
and oily. Notwithstanding, it is regarded by Jordan and Evermann as 
EULACHON, 
“an excellent panfish, unsurpassed by any fish whatsoever in delicacy of 
flesh, which is far superior to that of the trout. The flesh is very oily, 
but the oil has a very attractive flavor. It is sometimes extracted and 
used as a substitute for cod-liver oil. It is, however, solid and lard-like 
at ordinary temperatures.” 
The oil has been even quite widely used for the same purposes as 
cod-liver oil, and in 1881 was imported into England by the well-known 
chemists, or druggists as we would call them, Burgoyne and Burbridge. 
The demand, however, for some unknown reason, does not seem to have 
secured a permanent foothold in the drug market. 
The name Candlefish is due to the fact that the dried bodies are often 
utilized by the Indian as candles. The name is or at least was also a 
trade-name for those salted and exported southward. 
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