Studies on Salt Fish.: 1. Bacteria Associated with the Reddening of Salt Fish

A study has been made of thirty strains of red halophilic organisms from reddened fish, salt and the timbers of salt fish plants. Eleven were cocci and belong to the species Sarcina litoralis and Sarcina sp. of Lochhead. The rod forms are of five types. Three resemble Bact. trapanicum Petter, Serratia salinaria and Serratia cutirubra Lochhead. The others do not resemble any of the described species. Of thirty samples of salt, reddening organisms were found in twenty, seven of which were mined or evaporated salts.