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Show HOW AMERICA vw FT EATS zmm i i ;V - '- 4 ;J ? rA. irrKN r : f -- --' V1 w 'vV v i ? r&Jl & J L!;i,;..l:.vii2ir Rnady for th own: First stuff the trout, then bake and serve with sauteed mushrooms. A splurge in good eating! Now trout for everybodys table By CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD This Week Food Editor Thanks to modern farming and freezing, trout is never out of season ahead, but a flip of the calendar. thoughts turn to purling streams, their banks clothed in bright green finery. But cooks neednt wait, to them trout is never out of season. It is one of the few fish that is raised commercially for food. These speckled beauties, socialites of the first ater, that go cavorting on menus with pompano, with the Dover sole, the crab, never knew freedom. Born in captivity, they come to maturity in an atmosphere of loving care in a commercial fish hatchery. There are two types of hatcheries : the Federal and State, producing fish of various kinds for the stocking and restocking of public waters. And there are the commercial fish hatcheries, 129 in the U.S. These existed originally to stock privately owned streams, but now they concentrate on raising fish to market. Spring soft-shelle- d Trout once belonged exclusively to the gentlemans club and on the luxury menus of our finest hotels. Today trout is a supermarket fish, ready for a splurge on anybodys table. Prices are down. Quick freezing did the trick, plus little Denmark. Danas are raising rainbows After the Second World War Denmark, searching for new industries to bolster her economy, considered commercial trout farming as done in the United States. Denmark had no trout in her streams, but undeterred bought fertilized rainbow trout eggs from hatcheries here to give the idea a try. A success from the start. That was 15 years ago and today Denmark has 400 farms raising the rainbows, those aristocrats of fishdom. The greater portion of her fish are dressed and frozen for export to the States. Until Denmark Th came into the market, trout here was sold fresh at around $1 a pound. Denmarks frozen product sold for half the price and pointed the way to a new middle purse market. U.S. trout hatcheries were reluctant to get into freezing. It meant buying expensive equipment. But what else to do? Japan saw the new market opening and joined the parade. In 1959 the latest figures available show Denmark exported to the United States 2,233,144 pounds of trout; Japan sent 2,562,542 pounds. Iceland, Norway and West Germany sent small amounts. Trout promises to be a goldfish for the hatcheries, and in the near future a budget fish for the home table. Last year I was in Denmark, and there I learned how the trout business had started. Turn to pogo 28 for rncipos THIS WEEK MogozlMftbrvary 12, 1961 |