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Show SHARK MEAT Better Than Lobster and Might Solve Food Question j New York. Sept. 20 Shark meat Is a dainty of high quality, according to the savants who are hero attending attend-ing sessions of the American Fisheries Fisher-ies society. They declare that the creatures are nulte edible and that it is only a foolish prejudice which keeps them from being served as a delicacy. One scientist suid he preferred shark to lobster. Prof. Theodore Oill declares that shark meat broiled ' has I a flavor as line as anything which I comes from tho water." j Several of the delegates expressed tho belief that the cultivation of the I shark as a food fish might do much to solve the problems of the higher cost of living. A discussion of cavalr occupied one of the sessions for three hours. Dr. Louis HussakofT, assistant curator of I ichthyology of the American Museum of Natural History, said thai most of the caviar sold in this country was made from the roe of the Mississippi spoonbill and not from the sturgeon. He reassured consumers, however, by the assertion that the imitation product pro-duct Is "as good or possibly better than the genuine." |