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$2,500,000 were taken by American vessels in the Bay of Saint Law- 

 rence. 



Statement VI shows the number of barrels of pickled mackerel re- 

 ceived at Boston from United States and foreign ports during each 

 month of the years 1878 to 1881, also the total receipts during the year 

 1877. From this statement it appears that the mackerel industry of 

 Boston is increasing in importance, especially in the receipts of Ameri- 

 can mackerel. 



Statement VII shows the price per barrel of the several grades ot 

 mackerel during the first week of September in each year from 1830 to 

 1881. These values may perhaps be generally taken as the average 

 value for the year, though in some years, as in 1881, the price rapidly 

 increased later in the year, when a large part of the product was placed 

 upon the market. 



Statement VIII shows the number of barrels of pickled mackerel im- 

 ported from the British North American provinces during the years 

 1821 to 1841, and from 1850 to 1881, also the value of each year's impor- 

 tation from 1850 to 1881. 



Besides the quantity of mackerel imported in 1872 from these prov- 

 inces there were 1,504 barrels, valued at $11,214, received from England, 

 Scotland, British West Indies, France, and Portuguese possessions, 

 making the total importation 79,235 barrels, valued at $449,025. In 

 the year 1873, 1,191 barrels mackerel, valued at $4,079, were received 

 from the Danish West Indies and England, making the total importa- 

 tion for that year 90,889 barrels, valued at $010,457. The entire impor- 

 tation of pickled mackerel for the years subsequent to 1873 has been 

 from the British North American provinces. 



The quantities of dutiable mackerel imported since June 30, 1873, and 

 included in the tabulated statement, are as follows : 1874, 190 barrels, 

 $1,550; 1875, 59 barrels, $553; 1876, 7 barrels, $48; 1877, 14 barrels, 

 $148; 1878, 6 barrels, $67; 1879, 2 barrels, $14; 1880, none specified; 

 1881, 9 barrels, $97 ; total, 287 barrels, $2,477. The quantities of pickled 

 mackerel imported from the provinces free of duty under the treaty of 

 Washington since June 30, 1873, are as follows: 1874, 89,503 barrels, 

 $800,920; 1875, 77,479 barrels, $584,283 ; 1876, 76,531 barrels, $095,412; 

 1877,' 43,066 barrels, $372,260; 1878, 102,148 barrels, $907,246; 1879, 

 101,420 barrels, $649,721; 1880,112,468 barrels, $493,059; 1881, 120,2S8 

 barrels, $614,729; total, 722,903 barrels, $5,117,630. 



Statement IX shows the quantity and value of pickled mackerel im- 

 ported into the United States from the British provinces during the 

 years 1856 to 1872, being the time of the operation of the reciprocity 

 treaty, and from the close of that treaty to the beginning of the treaty 

 of Washington. The statement also shows what would have been the 

 duty on these imports during the period of reciprocity. These statistics 

 are compiled from sheets published by W. B. Clark, and believed to 

 be copied from United States custom-house returns. 



