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HISTOEY OF THE MACKEREL FISHERY. 



UNITED STATES IMPORTS OF PICKLED MACKEREL. 



Statement VIII. — Showing the number of barrels of pickled mackerel imported into the 

 United States from the British North American Provinces from 1821 to 1841, and from 1850 

 to 1881, and also the value of same from 18f>0 to 1881.* 



*The statistics in this statement are obtained from the following sources : For the years 1821 to 1841 

 from Sabine's "Eeport on the American Fisheries"; for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1850 to 1855, 

 1867, 1808, and 1872 to 1881, from the annual reports of the United States Bureau of Statistics; for the 

 years 1856 to 1866, 1869, 1870, and 1871, from sheets published in 1879 by W. R. Clark, and believed to be 

 compiled from United States custom-house records. Mr. Clark's statistics are the most reliable we 

 have obtained for the years for which we quote them, as the returns of the United States Bureau of 

 Statistics do not give the desired details for those years. 



