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OFFICIAL REPORTS 

 Table of catches. 



Names of vessels. 



Schooner Venture 



Mascot 



Maggie Mac 



Lillys 



Triumph 



Sea Lion 



Beatrice (Victoria) 



Aurora 



Penelope 



Carmolite 



Ocean Belle 



Katharine 



Annie C. Moore 



Mountain Chiel 



W. P. Say ward 



Saiiphire 



Minnie 



E. E.Marvin 



Teresa 



Martha * 



Ariel 



Pioneer 



Mary Ellen 



Mary Taylor 



Viva 



Rosie Olsen 



"Wanderer 



Kale 



Bteam schooner Thistle 



Schooner Favorite 



Walter L. Rich 



C. H. Tupper 



Oscar and Hat tie 



Oarlotta G. Cox 



Geneva 



Letitia 



TJmhrina 



Sierra 



May Belle 



Wiimifred 



Labrador 



Maud S 



Laura 



Henrietta t 



Borealis 



Ainoko 



Annie E. Point 



Walter A. Earle 



Otto 



Steam schooner Eliza Edwards. 

 Schooner Vancouver Belle 



C. D. Band 



Beatrice (Vancouver) . 



Total 



Catch of 1891. 



Coast. 



7 

 137 



170 



354 



59 



53 



229 



46 

 21 



178 



30 



308 



276 



102 

 21 

 54 



Sand 

 Point. 



548 



660 

 584 

 136 

 340 

 410 

 751 

 508 

 191 

 442 



734 

 974 

 373 

 462 



307 



Berinj] 

 Sea. 



712 

 009 

 445 

 1, 201 

 170 

 200 



294 

 337 

 509 

 235 

 409 

 517 

 224 



374 

 394 



473 

 406 



3,556 



17, 015 



659 



72 

 3 



171 



82 



870 



47 



691 



1,039 



1,170 



1,224 



1,588 



801 



2, 4;;5 



22 



985 



1,082 



1,481 



65 



264 



731 



52 



330 



1,100 



84 



2,381 



21 



374 



65 



1,519 



267 



504 



241 

 98 



216 



1,030 



61 



1,547 



154 

 1,021 

 48 

 50 

 30 

 20 



344 



Total. 



659 

 79 



688 



1,013 



1, 020 



1, 071 



440 



1,330 



2,390 



1, 908 



1,415 



2,076 



21 



1,713 



3,439 



703 



738 



1,2C2 



1,082 



2, 355 

 695 

 763 



1,992 

 208 

 537 



1,132 

 387 



2, 753 

 530 

 609 

 528 



2, 036 

 494 

 4 

 909 

 886 

 942 

 105 

 590 



1,424 

 61 



2,020 



40G 



154 



2,067 



48 



50 



30 



20 



344 



27,645 48,216 



•Wrecked; no catch reported. 



t Cleared as a sealer but took no skins. Presumed smuj 



Price of skins. 



These figures were obtained from the <'ustom-hoHse in Victoria, and 

 are official. They also compare with my own. A few of these skins 



were sold early in the fiill to the Hudson's Bay Company 



and other local buyers, at from $15 to $18 i)er skin. 

 After the October sales in London prices here, for the few sold, ranged 

 from $12 to $13 per skin, and after the later sales in London they 

 dropped down in Victoria to $8 or $10 per skin. At these last figures 

 a very large proportion of the catch of the year Avas sold. The total 

 number of skins taken was 48,21(1. At an average of $10 ]wr skin, net 



price, the total value of tlie catch was $i82,l(J(>. At 

 caSs^ °^ diftercnt ^y^^.^^ ^.^^^^ ^|j^ valiicof thc ''coast catch " was $;ir),.j<)0, 



that of the "Sand Point" $170,150, and that of the 

 "Bering Sea" $270,450. 



