FROZEN FISH.

Kumara Times, Issue 1142, 27 May 1880, Page 3

FROZEN FISH.

Fish-freezing is the newest, form of preservation of fresh food. It is already been practised in India. Fish are frozen up in solid blocks of ice, and can then can be delivered in any part of India, while the surrounding ice can be used for the ordinary purposes of cooling drinks. The fish are suspended in wire nets in the freezing water, and are found in excellent condition after five or six days of such enclosure. The same treatment has been tried and found successful with- flower's. In this way fish are now being sent from Bombay to Lahore, and other parts of India. The experiment is novel, says the Otago Daily Times, as to frozen fish, but it was tried some time ago at Glasgow with salmon eggs, when 2,000,000, salmon eggs were frozen up with three feet of ice round them, and arrived ready for hatching in New Zealand after 110 days’ voyage. As some hundreds of thousands of thtese eggs were actually hatched, the Glasgow experiment may be held to prove that the fish frozen in Bombay undergo no physical change whatever. But is is seen that it may be possible to give another development to this process, and to equalise the supply and the price of the fish by storing the surplus stock of one time When fishermen are fortunate for the demands of those days in which the fresh supply is so insufficient as to compel a considerable rise in the price.

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