30 
THE BOOK OF FISHES 
HOW THE SPORTY SALMON COMES FRESH TO AMERICAN DINNER TABLES 
Each of the beautiful specimens from the fishing communities of our northern coasts and Canada 
rides into American markets in a special berth padded in “ frazil-ice ” and snow, and thereby is unharmed 
and delicious when it arrives. Fish packed by this method have been shipped 800 miles inland without 
showing signs of deterioration. 
for instance, than round steak; Shad, 
more than chicken. 
There are some six million farms in 
the United States, and as the demand for 
food grows more pressing, each will 
probably have its own fish pond. Assum¬ 
ing that each farm will utilize only three 
pounds of fish a week, a total of more 
than a billion pounds would be available, 
releasing a nearly equivalent amount of 
other meat for urban consumption. 
PUTTING SHAD IN THE PACIFIC 
The United States Bureau of Fisheries 
has foreseen the day when exact knowl¬ 
edge of the marine and fresh-water con¬ 
ditions that make for an abundant fish 
supply will be one of our major concerns. 
It recognizes that without exact and 
definite knowledge of all phases of ma¬ 
rine biology that aflfect the lives of the 
fishes suitable for human consumption, 
efforts to utilize the food resources of 
the sea to the fullest advantage must be 
handicapped so sorely that species which 
might render rich returns will be neg¬ 
lected, while others that have met with 
great favor may be all but exterminated. 
The Bureau’s work in introducing the 
Shad into Pacific waters and making it 
abundant through 2,000 miles of coast¬ 
line has been a service of the first order. 
Its success in saving the Atlantic Salmon 
and the Shad from extermination in such 
eastern rivers as have not reached the 
critical stage of pollution is another in¬ 
stance of its unusual value to the nation. 
Its rescue of the Seal fishery from de¬ 
struction and its protection of the Alas¬ 
kan Salmon fishery from inordinate de¬ 
pletion have earned for it a universal 
appreciation. 
Yet these activities are but a prelude to 
the things that remain to be done. 
Thanks to the splendid achievements 
of the past, in which such men as Goode, 
Jordan, Evermann, Nichols, Gudger, 
Bigelow, Barbour, Parker, Eigermann, 
Townsend, and numerous others have 
rendered an inestimable service to hu¬ 
manity by their gradual pushing back of 
the horizon of marine life, ichthyology 
to-day stands at a point where a correct 
