BLUE COD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 117, 10 February 1908, Page 11

BLUE COD.

A NEW ZCiLIND EXPORT

-A cable messago published on Fritfay-Stated that aif effort in the Commonwealth Senate to make. New Z.ealand blue, cod free "bf'dutv ■ % was XTho blue'-icod - of. .New Zealand,' a'reporter learned, has "moro hononr -in'jAustrftlia. perhaps thatf ! in his own ■ country I '.'; -He is esteemed a very dainty dish indeed^'ahd; ; is-^ni^rt^'-fr6ra- ! 'tiiis'icoiintry' in largo .numbers. . During; 1906 the export of . frozen [fish) .meaning for the most part bluo ; cod/i from Now Zealand to Australia . was .as followTo : Victbnaj'--''5828 ■ cwts., rained at £8506; to Now 'South Walos, 262-5 owt.., valued at £4333; to' West Australia. • , W ewt.,-£lB j. tp;3Jasjnaaiaj '9cwt:;i.£W:ii..(Prc-'- ■ snmably .Australia is desiroris'of'more blue ; . ood, for vtlio 1 agitation for. the total romoval, of : the : duty, .which last year was ljd per ; lh., was recently very keen- . - ' " ; T,hore vis no doubt,?!. said Mr L F . Ayson, Chief Inspector of Fisheries, to the. pressman; " that.the .blue, cod'is .one of' our very, best fishes. Hchri-S a hr range than the red cod,. .which' at!" present is considered a poor market fish. IHo is qiiito a: distinct- . variety,- from the rock cod, which 'is not .. plentiful. : For, freezing or transportation ha is'rthe.bfist of ■^tii : ' , Ncw-Zealarid fislies.'V -Mr v ; Ayson is&'te'd' "ih'atT tTie" priricipa'r'blue cod j grounds are,- Foyeaus i iStraffc -rand. the vicinity of. Stewart>ltland, the Otago and Marlborough Sounds, and\ , tho Chatham, . Island. to iho : 'present haVo . hardly 'bepri tpuchwl by-.fish'ermen.V If ' tho New-vZeatiii'd "fisHing. grounds" Wore".properly ••• developed, this country 1 couldi'ex'port a ; .great : many more blue cod, without starving its own requirements. -At, present; it is often easier-to cod-at Melbourne thaii-alt.'tlio.'Bluffj wing tb the large export.trade. 7 , • ■ has. jit jts oW>waters';kawhai, snappor,, mullet, and other fish, that aro common, to-New Zealand, but its. seas. do. not. know blue .cod.—Also, tho colder' waters- of this, country's shores produce fish of a finer flavour'than such as bask in the warmj debilitating Australian " Tho endf is frozen for purposes of....export, aad'is cu.*re<Lon arrival,in the Commonwealth; :