COD FISHERY. One of the world's greatest fisheries is that relating to the several species of the cod family (Gadid:e). These are V0111111011 in the northern regions of both oceans. The more important species are the common end, haddock, Pollack, and hake. The countries principally en gaged in the cod fisheries are Newfoundland, Canada, the United States, France., Great Brit ain, and Norway and Sweden, with a total animal product worth about $20.000.000. In the United States the number of vessels of not less than five tons burden which are engaged either wholly or largely in cod fisheries is not less than 600, with a total tonnage of 25,000 tons, representing a capital of over $3,000.000. Be sides these there are many smaller vessels. The number of men engaged is over 7000. The com mon cod (Callus callarias) is the most impor tant, and is found on both sides of the Atlantic. It is taken with hand lines and trawl lines from rather deep waters-20 to 70 fathoms. The an nual catch for the United States has in recent years averaged about $3.000,000. first value. The catch in 1893 for Canada amounted to $4.028.448. The haddock is extensively taken in both Europe and America. The product Of Canada amounted to $466,319 for the year 1893. In the United States the annual yield is about 50.000,000 pounds, with a value of about $1,115. 000. The pollack is found on the east coast of North America. north of New Jersey. The annual
catch in the United States amounts to abont $100.000, the Canadian product amounting to about one-half this sum.
The various species of cod are marketed fresh, dried, pickled, and smoked. Very small quan tities are pickled in the United States, and almost the only species smoked is the haddock. The principal form in which they are cured is by salting and drying. The world's annual product of dried codfish aggregates 600,000.000 pounds, representing 2,500,000.000 pounds of the uncured fish. The chief markets are France, Spain, Por tugal, Italy, and Brazil. The bulk of this trade is carried on by Norway, Newfoundland, and Canada, and it has been steadily increasing in these countries, while in the United States the reverse is the ease. Our exports of dried cod in 1804 amounted to $2.400,000. while the average annual export for the ten years prior to 1894 was 16,260,000 pounds, worth $737,084. The total amount of dried codfish prepared in the United States annually is about 80.000,000 pounds. Had dock are extensively smoked, appearing on the market as 'finnan haddie.' The United States product of smoked haddock is valued at about $200.000 annually. The secondary products of the cod are of considerable importance. These are oil, isinglass from the air-bladders, glue, etc.