Show MARKET FOR FISH I IS POOREST IN HISTORY Production Smallest st Ever but Consumption Is Less By fly G GEORGE ORGE B. B WATERS VATERS N. N E. E A. A Staff Correspondent Corre WASHINGTON Dec 11 The The bureau of fisheries is asking congress at Its December session to appropriate 20 to be used In conducting demonstrations demonstrations demon demon- of ot fish cookin cooking and educating educatIng Ing ng consumers to eat more sea food The situation In the whole fishing fishing- in industry in in- Is described as very acute with millions of pounds of fresh fish and cases of canned sea food seeking a a. market REFUSE TO SELL T Of or course if 11 middlemen are refusIng refusing refus- refus ing ng to sell millions of dollars' dollars worth of of salmon until the price goes gocs up we as ao wen well no not t as ask k congress congress congress' f for tor or as ao wen well no not t as ask k congress congress congress' f for tor or the he money declared Lewis Radcliffe In n charge of ot fishery industries Congress Is not going to appropriate ate money to help hold prices up The wise ones who have fish on hand land will sell sen at market prices and stand tand the loss rather than speculate on an increase In price It seems people people- got fed up on fish during the war when It became more or r less a substitute for meats Whatever Whatever What- What ever ver the cause the r result sult is that while the he 1920 pack of salmon is cases ases short of the 1917 pack still the market is dead Alaska produces most of ot the salmon for or consumption in the the- United States and nd great stores are still In the Canneries canneries can Can- there FISh UNPOPULAR An Radcliffe said curtailment In the consumption consumption con- con of fish applied also to all sea ea food The pack of ot sardines in Maine dropped from cases in 1919 to in 1920 In southern California said Radcliffe Radcliffe Rad- Rad cliffe liffe the producers of sardines are unable to see where they will be able to o sell their pack for what it cost to produce it Along the coast of Massachusetts and nd Maine the tho fish ish catch in the last two wo years has been reduced by 00 pounds while the price paid to fish fish- fishermen ermen has been reduced a a a reduction of 4 per cent In coach and 28 25 per er cent In value MARKET THREATENED Although there Is underproduction of f fish the is still greater This leaves so much fish without a market that the Industry is threatened with bankruptcy If tr the people people peo peo- ar are not persuaded to eat more sa salmon almon Radcliffe Radcliffe g l can f be has ss sold information at 25 cents that the eP ePand pink can and chums hums at 20 cents with a handsome hand hand- some ome profit to both wholesaler and retailer He says the salmon must be unloaded I at fair prices if It it is to be sold at all I I And recent drops in meat prices will i force orce fish Ish prices even lower than they hav have lave been II j |