Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1888 — A Fish Trust. [ARTICLE]

A Fish Trust.

The last New England monopoly is a halibut trust, which has how been organized about one year, and which has ama orityof the large fish dealers of Boston and Gloucester in the ring. The chartered name ot the trust is the American Halibut Company, with a nominal capital of 1500,000. These men Randle about twenty million pounds of, halibut a year, and it is alleged by the captains of the fishing vessels and the small dealers that the corporation makes between (200,000 and (300,000 per annum clear profit.