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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47

[introduction]

"In yield and value," writes the Commissioner of Fisheries in his annual report, the Canadian fisheries are still improving. Compared with last year their produce is valued at above half a million more-Succeeding tables, extending over a series of years, establish the fact that this improvement is not casual or spasmodic, but gradual and permanent." The value of the fish product for 1877, was $12,029,957; for 1876, $11,147,590. The production in each Province of the Dominion was as follows:—
1876. 1877.
P. E. Island $494,967 $763,036
Nova Scotia 6,029,050 5,527,858
New Brunswick 1,953,388 2,188,287
Quebec 2,097,667 2,560,147
Ontario 437,229 438,223
Manitoba 30,590 24,023
British Columbia 104,697 583,432
The values of the different principal fisheries or products for 1877, were—
Codfish $3,561,199
Herrings 1,522,091
Mackerel 1,667,815
Haddock 475,723
Salmon 855,687
Lobsters 1,213,085
Fish oils, cod, seal, whale, porpoise, dogfish, &c., &c 524,627