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, From this it will be seen how restricted is the con- 

 sumption of sea fish, etc., notwithstanding the increasing 

 price of the other food necessaries of life. And yet this 

 providential manna passes and repasses the coast, and 

 might he taken and utilised at a price four or five times 

 below that at present charged. In 1860 the sales of 

 fresh fish in the Paris market were to the value of 

 £450,000. The quantity was about 12,000,000 kilos.; 

 2,000,000 kilos, of salted fish is consumed in Paris, and 

 500,000 kilos, of marinaded or fish preserved in oil. 

 The value of the fresh water or river fish sold is set 

 down at about £80,000. 



The weight and kinds of fish consumed in Paris in 

 1877 were given as follows : — 



Eels 



Barbel ... 

 Bream ... 



Pike 



Smelts ... 



Gudgeon... 



Lampreys 



Perch 



Tench ... 



Trout ... 



Various small white fish 



lbs. 



328,000 



23,826 



94,176 



354,232 



290.454 



39,060 



286 



28,738 



154,674 



5,128 



1,157,434 



2,476,008 



There was sold of sea fish at the central markets 

 31,500,000 lbs. From four to five million pounds of 

 salted and smoked cod, herrings, mackerel, and salmon 

 is also sold in Paris. The trade in sea fish in that city 

 has doubled in value in the last ten years, and now 

 amounts in value to about 40,000,000 frs. (£1,600,000). 



The consumption of fish in Paris in 1883 was about 

 22,400 tons, or 1,000 tons more than in 1882, and nearly 

 a fourth of the whole were herrings, sold at an average 

 wholesale price of 3d. per lb. About a fourth of the 

 whole supply of fish came from abroad, chiefly from 

 England. 



