Word: menhaden
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When the 250-ton fishing boat Barnegat put out of Beaufort, N.C. for the menhaden*grounds one morning last winter, she carried some visitors who had never made the trip before. They were Bendix engineers, on board to check on the Barnegat's electronic "fish-finder." The reports from the finder came through just fine and the boat closed on a big school of fish. Then, as the Barnegat's 20 fishermen began to haul in their first good catch of the day, the engineers heard something that made them look up from their graphs in wonder...
Queer Fish. To teach people to enjoy kinds of fish now thrown back into the sea or ground into fertilizer, the Government is publishing Wartime Fish Cookery. It contains recipes for shark steak, skate chowder, the plentiful but oily menhaden, the humble but edible alewife, the delicious ocean pout, of which Massachusetts fisheries have recently sold huge quantities. Whale meat (red but fishy) was sold in Boston during the last...
Amazed were greybeard fishermen of Hampstead and Wilmington, N. C., last week, by the fatback '"miracle" of nearby Topsail Inlet. The menhaden, or fatback, is a herring-like fish, not usually eaten but valuable for oil and manure. It grows to about 18 inches, feeds on microscopic sea life, breeds near shore in enormous shoals...