•302 ANIMAL FOOD RESOUECKS OP DIFFERENT NATIONS- 



CHAPTER IX. 



Food Products of the Sea — Fishes. 



■Fisheries of Sweden — Of Eoumania — Lampreys — Sturgeons — 

 Balyk — Mode of Preparing — Russian Fisheries — Fisheries of 

 Tunis — Of Egypt and West African Coasts — tndian 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 — Their Flesh Eaten 

 in Various Countries — Swordfish — Oulachans, Large Fishery 

 for — Carp Family— Trout and Salmon— Statistics of British 

 Trade — Salmon Fisheries of Canada — Tinned Salmon, 

 Enormous 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. 



Swedish Fisheries. — The lake and river fisheries of 

 Sweden furnish the perch, the sandre, the pike, the 

 bream, and other cyprians, the Lota -vulgaris and the 

 common eel. The fishery for the lavaret, the Coregonns 

 albula and the alpine salmon (S.Alpimis) in the Vitter bring 

 in annually about £5,600. The largest salmon fisheries 

 are those of Elfkarleby in Uppland and Morsim in 

 Bletinge, which yield annually a revenue of about £4,000; 

 but the aggregate returns of the salmon fisheries in 

 Sweden are set down at £41,000. The greater part of 

 the fish is consumed locally, but some is sent fresh in ice 

 to England and Germany, and some to Denmark, where 

 it is smoked. About 150,000 barrels of herrings are 

 salted annually on the Baltic coasts of Sweden, but these 

 are insufficient for the home demand, and large quan- 

 tities are imported from Norway. 



