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REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1870, and the returns made by the English brokers permit the presenta- 

 tion of the following compilation, showing the number of barrels of shell 

 oysters shipped from the United States to Europe each season since 



1878: 



58. Statement of the exports of American oysters in barrels to Europe during each year 

 from 1S79 to 1894, inclusive. 



The customs returns show the domestic value of the oysters exported 

 from 1801 to 1891, inclusive, to have been $13,708,207. During the last 

 ten years little variation has occurred, as may be observed in the state- 

 ment showing the value of the oysters exported annually since 1803, as 

 given in Table 20 on pages 404-105. 



The principal exx>orts of oysters are made to England, Quebec, 

 and Ontario, those countries receiving about nine-tenths of the total 

 quantity exported. The shipments are made chiefly from the customs 

 districts of New York, Buffalo, Champlain, Baltimore, and Vermont. 

 Of the $088,053 worth exported in 1891, $440,130 were consigned to 

 England and $159,920 to Quebec and Ontario. The shipments through 

 New York aggregated $459,048; Buffalo, $91,435; Champlain, $40,125, 

 and through Baltimore, $38,113. 



Table 59 gives the values of oysters exported to the various countries 

 during a series of ten years ending June 30, 1S94. This table shows 

 that during the period indicated the exports to Europe were valued at 

 $5,520,830, or 73 per cent of the whole; to British North America, 

 $1,201,743, or 10 per cent; to the remaining j>ortions of the American 

 continent, $022,731, or 8 per cent, and all other countries, $238,480, or 

 3 per cent. The value of the exported oysters was greatest in 1888, 

 reaching a total of $858,052; the smallest value during any year herein 

 reported was $025,079 in 1893. 



