Excerpt from A Review of the Fishery Industries of the United States and the Work of the U. S. Fish CommissionImprovements in the manufacture of fish-oil and guano, in the production of which, as also in that of medicinal oil, steam is almost universally used, have been numerous and important.The clean and attractive packages in which canned, dried, smoked, and pickled fish are now exposed for sale led also to the more extensive use of fish for food. The fish shop of to-day is not so repulsive as of old to sight and smell. Salt codfish is no longer sent to the best markets in bulk, and more than two thousand men, women, and children are now employed in removing skin and bone and packing the fish in neatly cut strips in boxes or in tin-foil covered packages of definite size. In many inland districts the introduction of boneless dried fish in boxes and pickled fish in tins has led to increase of sales, estimated by competent authority as three-fold - this within a period of four years.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.