Show PORPOISE FISHERY IS OLD One of Least Known Industries In America Operated for Years From Cape Hatteras One of the oldest and least-known least Indu industries In America is the thc porpoise fishery which has been operated from flom Cape Hatteras In North Carolina for about years It should attain an unusual prosperity In the next few years for the bureau of fisheries Is ur urging more general use of porpoise hides In place of cowhide It is an excellent leather and could undoubtedly edly he be used more widely says the Baltimore American Heretofore r the most mo t valuable product product prod prod- Of the fishery has hat been the oil which is extracted from rein the Jaws Jaw atthe of at the porpoise and Is worth about 20 a gallon It Is universally used for lubricating watches and other very delicate mechanisms The body blubber hlub- hlub her ber Is also valuable Attempts to manufacture f fertilizer out of the carcasses carcasses car car- casses S have failed because e of ot the distance distance distance dis dis- tance from a u fuel Ri supply Tl The e porpoises are lire taken at Hatteras Hat Hat- terns terns teras In seines selnes operated from the shore and It Is the only place In America where this has ever been heen successfully done During the fall fan winter and spring many porpoises porpoises porpoises por por- poises are seen off oft the South Atlantic coast and at Hatteras they come With In a a few hundred ye Gds ds of th also surf They Thy are taken take by spreading seines about yards outside the surf line As soon as the porpoises have come Inside the seine It Is dragged ashore Often Orten a whole school of ot these sea creatures creatures crea creu- tures Is taken token In a single te haul |