CHAPTER XIII 



CONSERVATION IN LABRADOR 



IN the foregoing pages I have referred to the 

 great waste of natural resources that is 

 going on everywhere along the coast of the 

 Labrador Peninsula. It seems worth while 

 to gather up the scattered threads and weave 

 them in this chapter into a connected whole. 

 It is possible that much could be done in 

 the conservation of the chief industries of the 

 coast — that the harvest of cod, salmon, hali- 

 but, herring, and capelin could be made more 

 abundant and less uncertain from year to 

 year by modern methods of fish-culture and 

 fish-capture. There is no doubt that these 

 fish could be utilized with less waste than 

 at present. Cods' tongues, for exajnple, now 

 thrown away, could be canned and form a 

 by-product of considerable value. The cods' 

 livers are rarely so treated as to produce a 

 high-priced medicinal oil. At most places 

 along the coast the livers are thrown into 

 barrels to rot and the resulting dark cod-oil 

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