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Bay of Fundy than the longer and more dangerous ones to 

 Newfoundland. The supply of herring at Newfoundland, 

 too, did not always prove adequate to furnish every vessel 

 with a cargo of fish, while there was no scarcity of the fish 

 at this time at Grand Manan. From 1866 to 1867 the 

 number of vessels that went to Newfoundland kept dimin- 

 ishing yearly, while the Grand Manan fleet grew larger. In 

 1870 and 1871, twenty-three of the fleet went to Newfound- 

 land, thirty -six went to the Passamaquoddy region. In ten 

 years more the Newfoundland industry in frozen herring 

 had dwindled to almost nothing, as the fleet numbered but 

 three vessels. The same winter, 118 vessels went to Nova 

 Scotia, returning with more than 32,000,000 fish. 



From the winter of 1866 and 1867 to that of 1880 and 

 1881, inclusive, about 110,000,000 of herring were brought 

 back by the Newfoundland fleet, against 185,000,000 se- 

 cured by the fleet going to Nova Scotia waters. The 

 average price paid to fishermen was 30 cents per 100. The 

 cost of barrels and handling gave an added value of about 

 one-tenth to the cost of the herring. During the winter of 

 1880 and 1881, there were shipped from Eastport and the 

 vicinity 32,630,000 herring, estimated to be worth $98,700 

 to the producers. 1 



The following decade witnessed a rather remarkable re- 

 versal of the frozen herring industry. The Nova Scotia 

 trade declined until it failed entirely. In the meantime, 

 the Newfoundland industry revived to a prosperous condi- 

 tion, far ahead of previous successful years. In 1885 and 

 1886, there went to Grand Manan only 13 vessels, in place 

 of the 118 that made successful trips there only five years 

 before. The Newfoundland fleet had increased from three 

 to twenty vessels and brought back 7,540,000 fish, about 

 1,000,000 in excess of the Grand Manan supply for that 



i Goode, Sec. V. Vol. I, p. 458. 



