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Show B SEA FURNISHES MUCH FOOD IHI i Hf 1 United States Hat P-hap the Most Valuable Fishery H Which All H Coaat Statei Share. mV - The United Slntcx li h vlmt Is Maid III V. to lie, I lie most vulimlile lUliury In the mm vnrhl, liuf prulmlily not one perbon mli v In ten cmi name It. It Is conducted In Pjjj , veiy sencoiiNt state from Cajh! Cod B to tjiu Itlo Ciriinile, and from I'tiet Jy humid up to Sun I'mnclsco, and it lif yields iiiinimlly ulxiut lir,0(H hum of flu fid as prepiired fur coiiMimptlon, nn UK (inlvulent of IOO.WM) droKmil steers. Rl It employs about UT.tMX) perMiiif, and Wl II? annual product, ns It coiiie.i from ISf ' tho wnter, It vulnod at over $15,000.. KU - (MX). There are other fisheries that nN J possibly exceed It In tho ultimate Ya value of their product, but In xiicli It ases much labor ti lit I material and a Rj icnv.T InveHtment or capital hau been Hi conct'iiied In ruauiifacturiPK operutloim M, lo prepare the product for the con- H Miuier; as, for example, the canned B Milmou ImluNtry of the I'iicIIIc cousi. K Tho Amerlnin tlsbery for codfish on tjL the Atlantic count, which has been the Wm 'iniHe of much illplomutlc discussion IS mill or Krave International ucKothf HR tmns. appears alniott InslKulflcaiit In 'Jilj romimrlMin, Its value In normal time MBf heforo he Kreut war leln about $.V H ().V),(KX) yearly: and the shad fishery, Hjl the pro-peris of uhlch each t-prlnt,' V ,. C.rll. ..- i. -Ill Ul III" iitibllc prest, produces not onu-tenth as mucii' fiKid. The mint valuable fishery Is that which fiiriilwliei us with oysters. 1h( bureau of flnherles has more than once en I lei I attention to this vast food resonrct and the possibilities for In. rreuslnc It and using It to better ad-Minliie. |