408 



HISTORY AND METHODS OF THE FISHERIES. 



at 30 cents per hundred, the average price paid to the fishermen, would have a value of over 

 $84,500. If we add to this the cost of the barrels and the labor in handling it would bring the 

 first cost of the fish up to nearly $90,000. 



According to Mr. E. C. Green and Mr. Thomas L. Holmes, two of the principal herring dealers 

 of Eastport, about twenty-five American vessels and eight or ten large boats, with one hundred 

 and thirty men, were engaged in the capture of the herring. During the season, which lasts from 

 late in November to the 10th of March, these fishermen caught about 8,000,000, the remainder 

 being taken by the fishermen of New Brunswick. 



According to the statement of Capt. Henry B. Thomas, published in the Eastport Sentinel, 

 there were shipped from Eastport and vicinity during the winter of 1880-'81 32,630,000 herring, 

 which, including labor and barrels, had a value of $98,700 to the producers. 



The following table, compiled from the files of the Cape Ann Advertiser, the Eastport Sen- 

 tinel, and other sources, shows approximately the number of cargoes of frozen herring, together 

 with an estimate of the number of fish brought to the United States each year since the origin of 

 this trade. 



Including the quantity shipped by steamer from Eastport. 



