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Article: SMOKED FISH MAKES A COMEBACK FROM THE BRINK OF EXTINCTION
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 15, 1987
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CopyrightCopyright 1987 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The smoked fish industry, on the verge of extinction during the
1950s, currently is riding the crest of a popularity wave.
According to Buzz Billik, president of the country's oldest
and largest smoked fish and marinated herring company, Marshall
Smoked Fish in Brooklyn and New York City, we just can't get
enough of any number of smoked fish.
Billik, in Boston last month to attend the Boston Seafood
Show, says he now produces more than 3 million pounds of smoked
salmon a year. But "salmon, although the backbone of our business,
is only one of 15 types of smoked fish we have," he says.
The company, begun in 1904, also is making its mark smoking
such things as black codfish, ...