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Show USHING CRAFT 1 EE REPLACED WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. Fishing craft destroyed by German submarines off the NewEngland coast will be replaced re-placed by the Emergency Fleet corporation cor-poration at the request of the food administration with modem deep soa trawlers. Construction will be begun immediately immedi-ately on 75 vessels, to be In operation on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in tno Gulf of Mexico early in 1919. Tho food administration asked for the boats in order to increase the production produc-tion of salt water fish. Heavy increases in the annual production pro-duction of haddock, small cod, flat fish and other salt water varieties are expected ex-pected to result from operation of the new trawlers and enable carloads to enter all the interior markets of the country every week in the year stabilizing stab-ilizing prices at lower levels. nn |