Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-14 | Page 6 | Miscellany

Miscellany Europe's Fish Supply. The continued demand for canned salmou for export lo Europe is accepted by the beat-posted people in the trade as ;an evidence that fish packers in Scandinavian, Scandi-navian, English and Scotch centers have noft been able to puck anything like the normal amount of fish . requisite for consumers con-sumers in. those countries owing- to the mining of the seas and the naval activity tf the belligerents. In normal seasons the production in northern Europe amounts to many millions of packages, but fthe war has curtailed packing, and to a large extent the actual supply of fish has been much below the usual output. Considerable stock lias been sold fresh at extremely high, prices' and much stock has gone into salt and dry cure. The inability of the American merchant to impont Scotch and Holland herring in salt and all descriptions of kippered herring her-ring and sardines is additional emphatic evidence of the shortness of fish supplies on the other side. These facta force the conclusion that England's attitude in not permitting (the sale of canned fish and food products from the centers in Great Britain Brit-ain and her action in connection with exports ex-ports from Scandinavian ports is bound to reflect favorably upon the American market mar-ket for canned s-almon. v The question is not covered wholly by canne.d fooJs. England declines to allow ithe exportation of tin except under restrictions, re-strictions, and this, of course, is the prime reason why the quantity of ish packed in tins is so materially reduced. --Xew York Commercial.