Show GREAT FISH MARKET boston handles pounds of sea food annually ranks rank second only to grimsby in england money value ranges brorn to annually annual ly halibut H all but supply boston from smelts to whales from herrings to halibut new engi eng land must ever have a lively interest in thap th denizens of the deep and their translation to the uses of at man in a state which glorifies the codfish by hanging it a symbol or of plenty in its legislative halasi halls where the whole fishery once was richer than a gold mine and has left annals of adventure and of effort which have an epic quality and are part of the record of the nations growth where the fisheries have schooled sailors and have graduated captains courageous tur lor ships it la Is fitting that the whole community should view with intelligent tell telli igent genf interest whatever pertains to the garnering of the riches of the seas herring made 11 holland olland what it Is codfish made early new england today the business ot of catching curing or selling for immediate consumption loix a great part ot of the count rys supply of food fish devolves upon boston the greatest flah fish market in the new world and ranking second only to grimsby in england Cn gland since grimsby Is merely a railroad terminal a shipping point for the north sea fisheries to the markets of at the english cities doston boston may bo be called tb the greatest fish ash dealing city on the globe its fish dealers are as much merchant mpr chant princes in a way as were the old traders of salem to be sure cure there la Is not in their business so much of romance but there are nearly lyas as many dollars in doston boston today hamlet would have to think of some term more fitting than fishmonger to apply to Polon lua here there are degrees in and the highest degree held by the wholesale fish dealer Is one of honor in the land it if arty any incredulous person asks you why take them aside and make clear to them that the boston fish dealer Is as important in his field as the beef packer of the middle west Is in his and what Is more he has not permitted himself to be encompassed COM PIssed in a trust ile he la is independent amid the trusts that hedge about the nations food supply the person inclined to figures may find there Is wealth visible and vital in fish business the city handles every year between and pounds of fish exclusive of the epicurean lobster and other shellfish these fish spell in money c r sum between and there are craft in the leet fleet that lands fish at boston worth each or something more than in the aggregate each ot of these vessels has an annual expense account of about for repairs sails rigging gear halt bait ice supplies and the like and this means business t to 0 new england of strong the fleet employs between and men directly and many others get work because ot of it bringing the total of mean men looking to the business for a living up to near counting three persons as dependent on oil each of these men it will be seen that a total of persons persona get their bread and butter from flailing fishing fleet neither in trie tile gathering of its supply nor in its distribution of the same can fish business be considered merely local the fisherman goes far afield to cast a line for the boston market the greater part of the coun arys halibut supply for example cornea comes to boston from alaskan waters where hoston boston capital and energy rna intrain a fleet of five steamers to prosecute the fishery and a large and modern freezing plant recently fished on american soli sail at Met to in prepare the halibut for shipment east cast by fast ast trains via vancouver fully 90 per cent of the boston map ma keta halibut comes from this source the salmon fisherman gherman fl on the columbia river sets his nets for the boston market the chesapeake bay and savannah river shad fishermen and the newfoundland herring sei seln erdo nerIdo the same plan fish come from every point of the compass to boston and from here are distributed to points as far west as the Ilo ckles and as far south as new orleans |