428 ANNUAL EECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



amounted to $71,356. The largest items in the preceding 

 estimate were: For summer cod-fishing, $309,615; autumn 

 cod-fishing, 1100,707; herring (barrels), $330,228; salmon, 

 $63,180 ; sardines, $53,682 ; cod oil, $51,509 ; whale oil, 

 $43,048. 



The total value of the fisheries of the Province of Ontario 

 was $326,472. That of the boats, nets, etc., employed in 

 these fisheries, was $136,269 ; the number of yards of gill-net, 

 614,070; of men engaged, 1727. 



New Brunswick returned an estimated value of $638,576. 

 The number of men employed was 1991, with 38 vessels, 780 

 boats, and 130 canoes. 



Nova Scotia returned a value of $2,501,507, employing 

 17,557 men, 635 vessels, 3558 whale-boats, 3793 skiffs, and 

 319 sail-boats, with 21,656 total tonnage. 



For Newfoundland the total value was $7,005,807. For 

 Prince Edward Island, $169,580. The principal item in the 

 Newfoundland fishery related to cod-fish, and that of Prince 

 Edward Island to mackerel. 



It will be seen from the foregoing statistics that the fish- 

 eries of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island exceed in 

 value by more than $2,000,000 those of the Dominion of 

 Canada, and that the larger portion of the " Canadian " fish- 

 ery products are furnished by Nova Scotia. 



The total annual products of the fisheries off" the coast of 

 the British North American Provinces, as sliown by the state- 

 ments embodied in this report, amount to nearly $23,000,000, 

 as follows : 



KECAPITULATION. 



Quebec $1,046,240 46 ..^ 



Magdalen Islands 71,356 GO 



Total $1,117,596 4G 



Ontario 326,472 10 



New Brunswick 638,576 10 



Nova Scotia 2,501,507 GO 



Total Canadian fisheries $4,584,15166 



Newfoundland 7,GG5,807 40 



Prince Edward Island 169,580 GO 



Total Provincial fisheries $ 1 1 , 759, 539 G6 



French fisheries 4,GG0,G00 00 



United States fisheries 7,000,000 00 



Total of all fisheries $22,759,539 06 



