Modern business geography

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Identifikator:: 1830562916

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217337

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Huntington, Ellsworth http://d-nb.info/gnd/117070092; Cushing, Sumner W.

Title:: Modern business geography

Place of publication:: New York [usw.]

Publisher:: World Book Company

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: VIII, 352 S.; Ill., graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part one. The field of primary production

Collection:: Economics Books

Fisheries 105 served by salting, smoking, or drying. Cod caught on the Labrador coast are marketed in Spain, in Italy, and even in Greece. The kinds of fish caught in the North Atlantic. Haddock and hali- but are caught with the codfish. Halibut are larger than cod and their flesh is more highly prized. Next to the cod and haddock in the Atlantic fisheries come the mackerel and herring. Mackerel swim near the surface of the water in schools and hence are caught in great nets, called seines. Seining mackerel is even more exciting than catch- ing codfish, and the profits run higher if the schools are numerous. Oyster fishing. Although the oyster is wholly different from a fish, it is called a shellfish, and oyster catching is included in fisheries. The oyster lives at the bottom of shallow bays, such as are found on the Atlantic coast between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras. Chesa- peake Bay, the largest of these, is the most important oyster region in the world, while Long Island Sound is second in importance. The oyster industry furnishes about one third of the total value of all the fisheries of the United States. PACIFIC COAST FISHERIES The salmon is the most important fish on the Pacific coast, with the cod and halibut next in order. Salmon fishing. During the spring or summer, along the whole coast from the Columbia to western Alaska, the salmon ascend the rivers in order to lay their eggs in fresh water. At such times traps and rows of stakes and nets, called weirs, are set in the rivers; they often capture so many fish that the large canneries at the mouths of the rivers find it difficult to handle the catch even by working night and day. So great is the catch in the weirs of Washington and Alaska that this country is able to satisfy its own needs and export $5,000,000 worth besides. Each year the salmon fisheries of Alaska alone yield products worth several times the $7,200,000 paid to Russia for that territory in 1867. Refrigeration of fish. In most parts of the United States, the fish sold as * fresh *’ halibut come from our Pacific coast and especially from Alaska. Each year more than 20,000,000 pounds of halibut and 13,000,000 pounds of salmon are frozen as soon as they are taken from the waters of the Pacific and are kept in that condition till they reach thousands ef markets scattered over the country. It is said that they are quite as nutritious and have quite as good a flavor as fish that have been caught only a few hours. When thawed, however, they spoil more rapidly than do fresh fish.

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