I will qualify this: they were up 
against it, as, formerly, there was no 
market for this fish which, since it has 
appeared in various toothsome forms, 
is styled “Grayfish.” Like the Tilefish, 
perhaps due to old Mr. H. C. of L., the 
doggie or grayfish has now become more 
or less popular as an article of food. 
The Bureau of Fisheries, in speaking 
of the merits of the grayfish, says: 
“Fortunately for the fish, but not for 
the public, the early reputation of the 
grayfish was based not on its high 
quality as food, but on its destructive 
habits. It is a pirate and a marauder, 
like the blue-fish, but its weapons are 
more efficient, and it not only eats and 
drives away other fishes, but it cuts to 
pieces with its teeth the fishermen’s 
gear and leaves him helpless and ex¬ 
asperated.” 
“Exasperated” is right. I can hear 
’em yet: “Dura them shirks!” 
They don’t always drive the other 
fish away, though. Haven’t you often 
caught weaks, fluke and blues right in 
the midst of a flock of doggies? I have. 
After scrapping with those thirty 
pound doggies I mentioned earlier in 
this little wheeze, I have a wholesome 
respect for them, and after I had di¬ 
gested all the Bureau of Fisheries wrote 
about, I felt that they really were “some 
punkins.” 
The hide is useful in polishing fine 
metal, ivory, etc., as, although it seems 
scaleless and smooth when caught, it is, 
on drying, rough as emery cloth and, 
as in the case of its larger cousin, the 
liver is valuable for its oil, used in 
dressing leather and in medicine. 
The grayfish may be eaten fresh, too; 
I know it well. Real fish were scarce 
on one of our trips, and Warren and I 
were down to first principles, as it 
were, but the doggie saved us—good, 
too. It can be salted and dried like cod; 
also smoked and canned. The canned 
fish is cheap and wholesome, too; it 
is not in any way a low-grade product 
—it is rich, palatable and good. 
Now, stop this talk of the high cost 
of living; we all do it most of the time, 
while in a great measure we do noth¬ 
ing to reduce it, even when the only 
effort required is to substitute one word 
for another when we order from the 
marketman. 
Someone has said, “Everything that 
comes out of the sea is good to eat.” I 
don’t know; sometimes there are sea¬ 
sons when some of the sea creatures 
are poisonous, but, on the whole, I think 
he is right. I’ve eaten lots of sea crit¬ 
ters that don’t look good to the un¬ 
initiated — blow-fi^h, skates, doggies, 
squid, etc. We shall have to eat such 
trash, sooner or later, if wasteful 
sportsmen do not take a tumble. Look 
at the poor sport that catches his chan¬ 
nel bass and lets the beautiful warrior 
( Continued, on page 478) 
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