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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

Fish Exports

Fish Exports.

The value of the fish exported in 1877, was $7,000,402, an increase over 1876 of $1,462,381; of this $2,361,158 was to the United Slates, $1,092,726 to Great Britain, $1,527,604 to the British West Indies. $898,858 to the Spanish West Indies, and the remaining $1,217,057 among all the the other countries of the world, South America being the next largest customer. The imports of fish and products of fish into Canada for the same year were to the value of $1,275,231 free, and $54,299 dutiable, in all, $1,329,530; of these the imports from the United States amounted to $628,176, very nearly one half, and those from Newfoundland to $667,131. During the last six months of 1877, the export of fish amounted to $4,657,521 and the import to $884,010; of which from the United States was brought $322,170, and to the United States was sent $1,820,170.