FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



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Indian Ocean, and 3 per cent, from Hudson Bay, Cumberland Inlet, and 

 Davis Strait. Of the whalebone secured in the same decade, 88 i^er cent, 

 was from north of the fiftieth parallel in the IS orth Pacific and Arctic 

 Oceans, and 5 per cent, from Hudson Bay and Cumberland Inlet, and the 

 balance from the Atlantic, Indian, and other oceans. 



The number of voyages undertaken by the fleet for 1870 to 1880 was 

 810, which includes Arctic whalers annually refitting at San Fran- 

 cisco and other ports. Of these voyages 382 were to the l^orth and 

 South Atlantic, 254 to the Pacific, Arctic, and adjacent grounds, 98 to 

 the South Pacific, 45 to the Indian Ocean, and 36 to the Atlantic Arctic 

 grounds, Hudson Bay, Davis Strait, and Cumberland Inlet. 



Year. 



1870 

 1871 

 1872 

 1873 

 1874 

 1875 

 1876 

 1877 

 1878 

 1879 

 1880 



Ships and 

 barks. 



217 

 214 

 170 

 151 

 129 

 118 

 121 

 120 

 128 

 123 

 126 



Briga. 



Schooners. 



Total ves- I Total ton- 

 sels. 



316 



280 

 210 

 191 

 161 

 1.52 

 158 

 162 

 178 

 177 

 181 



72, 173 

 67, 909 

 51, 252 

 46, 230 

 39, 788 

 36, 230 

 37,182 

 36, 476 

 39, 976 

 39, 391 

 38, 637 



Tabic showing the value of sperm-oil^ ivhale-oilj and whalebone landed by 

 the American Jleet, the value of the consumption in the United States, and 

 the value of the exjyortation annually from 1870 to 1880. 



From half a million to a million dollars' worth of products are carried over from year to year. 



