Madras Fisheries Bureau Annual Reports of the Madras Fisheries Bureau 1908-1917

Little could be done to the end of 1908 beyond repairs and the starting of salting and smoking arrangments since everything was novel and the place of course a blank ; also the north-east monsoon and the two months' tour with the Margarita" on the West Coast intervened. [...] as are taken bodily into the system whereas in the case of fish less than this percentage is used and then only as a mere detergent and antiseptic bath little of which penetrates the tissues and the whole of which is extracted in the usual course of soaking and cooking. [...] The British and Indian soldiers are strongly in favour of the products which supply a tasty and appetising food and high Madras households have by no means disdained the locally-produced substitute for the kipper the bloater and the haddock ; to consumers up-country this substitute for the almost unattainable fresh fish for the expensive tinned goods or for the indigenous product "6 has alread [...] He inspected the larger tanks of the Periyar system and the Periyar Lake in view to fish culture ; also the larger tanks (Barer etc.) of the Salem district and the great tanks of Daroji and Cumbum with a similar view ; the reports embodying his proposals have been laid before Government. [...] of the fishermen ; (2) impossibility of exact experiment owing to the uncertainty as to freshness or rather to the possibility of taint ; (3) inefficiency of labour and want of interest due to the poverty of the local men and absence of any local curing industry.