STATISTICS OF NOltTH AMERICAN HADDOCK FISHERY 29 



Taiu.k 1. — I'niicd Stdtc-s ((itclicx, etc. — Continued 



5 Estimated, as explained in text. 



Some of the catches were given in part as " salted," the fish under 

 this head being split and salted but not dried. The amount of salted 

 fish was usually very small — about 1 per cent of the total. A factor 

 of 2.0 w^as used to obtain the fresh w^eight of these catches. This 

 factor is in current use in the compilation of statistics both in the 

 United States and Canada. 



CANADA 



The Canadian haddock catches were obtained from the annual 

 reports of the Department of Marine and Fisheries and from the 

 fisheries statistics published by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics — 

 the former from 1880 to 1917 and the latter since 1918. The statistics 

 are based on annual and. since 1911, monthly reports by the fishery 

 overseers. These are compilations of the records of the various 

 firms in their districts. 



Before 1910 the statistics do not give the weights of the catch 

 in terms of fresh gutted fish, and this figure must be calculated from 

 the weights of the products marketed. Since 1910 figures are pub- 

 lished entitled," Caught and landed in a fresh or green state"; but 

 uniformity throughout the period studied is desirable, and the 

 "weights " caught and landed " are themselves at times calculated 

 from the weights of the jDroducts marketed — for example, in the 

 case of the Limenburg catches, which are landed salted, and in those 

 where fish are prepared by the fishermen themselves. For these 

 reasons the Canadian catches given here are the weights of fresh 

 fish gutted but without the heads removed, calculated to be 



