CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Food Proddcts of thk Sea — Some Fish Delicacies. 



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The Harvest of the Sea— Nutritive Value of Fish— The 

 Office of the Food Taster — A Chinese Fish Dinner — 

 An American Fish Dinner — Supply of Fish to Lon- 

 don — Imports of Fish in the CTnited Kingdom — 

 Supply of Birmingham, Dublin, etc.— Imports of 

 European States — Supply to New York — Commer- 

 cial Classification — The Cod Family — Statistics of 

 the Fisheries — Norwegian Fisheries — Capelin — Fish 

 Flour and Bread, Extracts, and Other Preparations 

 —Fish Sauces— Flat Fish — Soles, Turbot, Plaice, 

 etc. — Herrings — Extent of the Fisheries — Pilchards 

 — Whitebait — Fish Supply of Paris — Statistics of the 

 French Fisheries — Sardines — Anchovies — Skates — 

 Mackerel — Mullet — Tunny — Conger Eels — Fresh 

 Water Eels — Large Consumption in Italy — Minnows 254 



CHAPTER IX. 



Food Products of the Sea — Fishes — Contimied. 



Fisheries of Sweden — Of Roumania — Lampreys — Stur- 

 geons — Balyk — Mode of Preparing — Russian 

 Fisheries — Fisheries of Tunis — Of Egypt and West 

 African Coasts — Indian Fisheries — Choice Fish — 

 Statistics of Imports and Exports — Trade in Sharks' 

 Fins and Fish-maws — Bonito — Gourami — Fish of '^ . 

 Guadaloupe — Consumption of Fish in West Indies — \ / 

 Barbados — Jamaica — Honduras — Sharks as Food — j 

 Their Flesh Eaten in Various Countries — Swordfish / 

 — Oulachans, Large Fishery for — Carp Family — 

 Trout and Salmon — Statistics of British Trade in — 

 Salmon Fisheries of Canada — Tinned Salmon, Enor- 

 mous Trade in — Halibut — North American Fisheries 

 — Fish Preserved in Ice — White Fish (Coregonus) 

 and other Lake Fish — Flying Fish — Consumption 

 of Fish in Zanzibar — New Zealand Fish — Tasmanian 

 Fish — Fish of Ceylon, China, and the Indian Seas — 

 Of Japan — Brazilian Fish — Fish of River Plate and 

 Paraguay 302 



