FOREIGN FISHERY-TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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Trade in canned salmon. — Practically all the canned salmon of the 

 world are produced on the Pacific Coast of the North American conti- 

 nent. The extent of the product along each section of that coast for 

 the four years, 1889, 1890, 1891, and 1892 is shown in the following 

 table : 



55. Statement of the yield of canned salmon on the west coast of North America during the 

 years 1SS9, 1S90, 1S91, and 1S92. 



Loealit ies. 



Alaska 



British Columbia 



Washington 



Oregon 



California 



Total 



Pounds. Values 



28, 770, 912 $2, 996, 970 

 20, 122, 128j 2, 414, 655 

 10, 129, 584 ! 1, 050, 790 

 11,874,192, I, 372, 679 



Pounds. Values 



30, 779, 552 $2, 629, 491 

 19, 895, 992 2, 387, 519 

 8, 094, 288 874, 784 

 15,612,624 1,743, 111 

 3,708,9601 361,934 1,465,920; 141,690 



74,605,776, 8,197,028 75,848,376 8,528,470 



Pounds. Values. 



38, 827, 584 



15, 170, 592 



8,957, 130 



13, 827, 792 



599, 904 



1892. 



Pounds. Values. 



$3, 235. 632 22, 510, 360 



1,517,06111,928,576 



951,999 11,460,384 



1, 596, 904 18, 835, 328 



58, 990 762, 432 



77, 383, 008 7, 360, 588 65, 497, 080 



$1,969,674 



1,043,750 



1.163,590 



2, 985, 072 



75, 696 



7, 237, 782 



The principal markets for canned salmon are San Francisco and 

 Loudon, the former being the general shipping port, while London is 

 the center of distribution throughout the world. Of the 28,7S1,061 

 pounds of canned salmon exported from this country in 1890, 23,740,710 

 pounds were sent to England for distribution. The shipments from the 

 principal customs districts were as follows: San Francisco, 21,638,144 

 pounds; Oregon, 6,382,272 pounds; New York, G27,G23 pounds; Puget 

 Sound, 85,930 pounds; the shipments from all the remaining ports aggre- 

 gating only 17,G92 pounds. Of the 10,727,010 pounds exported in 1894, 

 England received 7,720,747 pounds, the shipments from the principal 

 ports being as follows: San Francisco, G,770,108 pounds; Puget Sound, 

 1,325,326 pounds; Philadelphia, 1,038,087 pounds; New York, 746,581 

 pounds, and Oregon, 622,848 pounds. 



Small quantities of canned salmon are each year imported into this 

 country for consumption. The extent of these imports is so inconsid- 

 erable that they have no effect on the canned-salmon trade in the 

 United States. During the ten years ending June 30, 1894, the value 

 of these imports amounted to only $9,157, as shown in Table 11. 



Table 56 shows the exports of canned salmon to various countries 

 during the ten years ending Juue 30, 1894. Of the $21,229,324 worth 

 of salmon exported during this period, $17,152,152, or 81 per cent, Avent 

 to England; $2,587,972, or 12 per cent, to Australia; the exports to all 

 other ports being only $1,489,200, or 7. per cent. It appears that the 

 exports reached a maximum in 1889 and 1890, when they exceeded 

 28,000,000 pounds each year. The extensive product during these and 

 the preceding years resulted in overstocking the market to such an 

 extent that at the opening of the fishing season of 1891 it was reported 

 that 400,000 cases of canned salmon were in London warehouses. This 

 naturally resulted in decreasing the product of the canneries and the 

 exports during the following years; and to the overstocked condition 

 of the markets is almost entirely due the small quantity exported in 1894. 



