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mackerel, show that there was exported from 1791 to 1800 

 inclusive an average of 57,916 barrels annually; during 

 the following decade 61,538 barrels were exported an- 

 nually ; and for the eight years ending with 1818 the ex- 

 ports were 33,078 barrels annually. In addition, there 

 were exported from 1796 to 1818 inclusive 191,158 kegs 

 of pickled fish. The value of pickled fish exported in bar- 

 rels and kegs for the sixteen years ending with 1818 was 

 $4,473,000. Reckoned on the same basis and in the same 

 ratio of values, the value of pickled fish exported previous 

 to 1803 exceeded $4,000,000. The total value of pickled 

 fish exported during the period of these thirty years, as 

 far as records show, was between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000. 

 The total value of all kinds of fish, dried and pickled, ex- 

 ported between 1789 and 1818 inclusive was, thus, in ex- 

 cess of $57,000,000. 



The bounty on pickled fish and salted provisions exported, 

 from the commencement of the government to September 

 30, 1819, amounted to $486,930.73 ; * and the allowances to 

 vessels employed in the fisheries from their inception in 

 1792 to the close of the year 1818 were $2,166,894.33. The 

 amount of the duty accruing on salt imported from 1789 

 to 1818 inclusive was $12,928,528. Thus the excess of the 

 salt duty over the amounts paid to the fishing industry 

 in allowances and bounties for the period of thirty years 

 was more than $10,000,000. 



The direction which exports of fish took subsequent to 

 the Revolution was along the same trade routes as had been 

 established for many years previous to the war. The West 

 Indies took the larger part of the exports, perhaps sixty 

 per cent on an average, but the fish exported to Europe 

 found better markets and better prices. The total exports 

 of dried and smoked fish for the year 1800 were 392,726 

 quintals. Sixty-two per cent of this amount, or 244,353 



iNiles' Reg. (1819), p. 53. 



