Excerpt from The United States and the Northeastern Fisheries From an economic point of view the fisheries are of equt importance. Countless thousands receive from them their chic article of food. The commercial products obtained from th sea Are more numerous and important than would be generall' supposed by those who have not looked closely into the matte: To a great part of the civilized world the taking of the cod, th herring, the salmon, the mackerel, the sardine, the seal, an other fishes, is of great value and gives employment to hundred of thousands of persons. The oil obtained from the seal, cod shark, &c., is used for lamps, medicine and in industry. Man; parts of fish are employed in the arts and manufactures: as the Scales of the bleak for making false pearls, and those 0 other fish for making ornaments; the skins of the seals and p01: poises for tanning purposes. Isinglass is obtained from the ai or swimming bladders of many. Fish roes are not only used a fish delicacies, but also for bait in some fishing grounds, and e: cellent guano is made from the ofial and the bones of fish. Th sea is more abundantly stocked with living creatures than th land. In all parts of the world a rocky and partially protecw shore perhaps supports in a given space a greater number of in dividual animals than any other station. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.