Word: hake
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...strongly object to your statement, in "Raising Hake" [March 18], that on the West Coast saumon blanc goes by the "unappetizing" name of hake. It happens that in some American circles a hake is known as a very tasty dish...
...SUSAN HAKE Woodside...
...school was a prodigious 20 miles long by three miles wide. Some estimates place the West Coast hake population as high as 6 billion, which is quite a rake of hake...
...West Coast catch will still end up as fish meal, at least for the time being. A company called Pacific Protein Inc. is spending $1,000,000 to build a processing plant at Aberdeen, Wash., for that purpose. Pacific Protein President John Stevens would like eventually to use hake in making fish-protein concentrate, an almost tasteless powder of reputedly wondrous nutritional value. A half ounce of FPC, as it is called, is said to be capable of providing a child with his daily need for animal protein at a fraction of a cent...
...human consumption, because the fish are not cleaned before processing; FPC enthusiasts reply by pointing out that the FDA has not banned chocolate-coated bumblebees and grasshoppers, though they also are consumed without cleaning. Last summer the National Academy of Sciences concluded that FPC made from hake is safe, and this month Interior Secretary Stewart Udall filed a petition requesting FDA approval. Next month the Senate will begin subcommittee hearings on a bill sponsored by Washington's Senator Warren Magnuson and Alaska's Senator E. L. Bartlett that calls for spending $5 million to build five plants...