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Yield and vahie of the different fisheries in the year 1884. 



Kind. 



Salmon : . , 



Salted barrels. 



Fresh number. 



Canned, cases 4 dozen 1-poond cans 



Smoked pounds. 



Sturgeon, fresh do. . . 



Haddock, whiting, &o do... 



Halibut '■ do... 



llerring and smelt: 



Fresh do... 



Smoked - - - 



Fish assorted pounds. 



Trout do... 



Oolahans : 



Fresh do... 



Salted do... 



Smoked - do... 



Fur and hair seal skins 



Oolahanoil gallons. 



Black shark and dogfish oil, refined do... 



Dogfish oil do... 



Salmon oil do... 



Clams, canned, cases 4 dozen 1-pound cans 



Fish sold in markets, not including New Westminister 



Fish cured for private consumption 



Salmon and other fish : Estimated consumption by Chinese and other la- 

 borers on the Central Pacific Railway, not specially recorded 



Eastern oysters imported and planted on beds barrels . 



Native oysters 



Total . 



Estimated consumption by Indian population as per previous computa- 

 tion: 



Salmon 



Halibut 



Sturgoon and other fish 



Fish oils *. 



Grand total of approximate yield, 1884. 



Quantity. 



5, 636* 

 173, 056 

 141, 242 

 367, 000 

 352, 900 

 240, 700 

 150, 000 



34, 550 



58, 400 

 76, 050 



37, 500 

 33, 000 

 28, 000 



43 



45, 000 



10, 000 



1,452 



300 



10 

 210 



Value. 



$50, 728 50 



51,916 80 



776,831 00 



51,380 00 



17, 645 00 



9, 628 00 



9, 000 00 



1, 727 50 

 6, 500 00 

 3, 504 00 

 5, 323 50 



2, 250 00 



2, 640 00 



2, 800 00 

 156, 419 00 



43 00 

 24,800 00 



3, 500 00 

 580 80 



1,800 00 



110,000 00 



8,000 00 



60,000 00 



200 00 



1,050 00 



1,358,267 10 



4,375,000 00 



180,000 00 



250, 000 00 



80, 000 00 



4, 885, 000 00 



6,243,207 10 



Comparative statement of yield of the years 1883 and 1884, exclusive of Indian consumption : 



Total, 1883 $1,644,645 42 



Total 1884 1,358,267 10 



Decrease 1884. 



286, 378 32 



143.— PETITION TO PROHIBIT THE SEINING OF BL.UEFISH. 



By FRED. W. DICKINSON. 



[Letter to Prof. S. F. Baird.] 



The firm in which I am partner (H. & J. Crosby & Co., Osterville, 

 Mass.) and four hundred other petitioners from Cape Cod towns are 

 soon to be granted a hearing by our legislative committee on fisheries 

 on a petition to prohibit the seining of bluefish in the waters of Vine- 

 yard Sound controlled by the State of Massachusetts, between Wood's 

 Holl and Chatham. Oar reasons for asking the legislation are : 



(1) In former years when bluefish were seldom taken except by hook 

 and line or in weirs the fishermen had no difficulty in catching a full 

 fare within a mile of shore, but within the past two years a great many 



