CONSERVATION IN LABRADOR 



is of inferior value and can be used only for 

 commercial purposes. There is no reason why 

 Labrador cod-liver-oil should not be as good 

 and as famous as the Norwegian cod-liver-oil 

 and command as high a price. 



Capelin are small fish about the size of smelts 

 and of considerable food- value. They school in 

 enormous quantities on the coast; the water 

 appears at times to be literally filled with this 

 dark, almost transparent, fish, and they often 

 pack together in great masses in the cod-traps 

 or strand in shallow water. Owing to their 

 abundance, they are not appreciated as they 

 should be, but are generally cast aside or they 

 are salted and dried so carelessly that large 

 quantities spoil. Both fresh and dried they 

 are excellent eating, but are generally con- 

 sidered only as food for dogs. As cod-bait they 

 have few equals, but they may be absent at 

 the critical time when they are needed. It 

 would be very easy and inexpensive to pro- 

 vide cold-storage rooms packed with snow for 

 capelin, which would be ready whenever bait 

 was needed. A large export industry in dried 

 capelin could also be built up as soon as 

 the food-value and excellence of this fish were 

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