96 The Commercial Products of the Sea. 



In that year 52,400 one-pound cans or tins were put up 

 in Nova Scotia. In 1870 the quantity preserved was more 

 than ten times as great, namely, 553,000 cans, valued at 

 about 7\d. each. In 1871 the quantity preserved in that 

 province rose to 905,500 tins. In the next two years the 

 export trade had wonderfully increased, yet the wholesale 

 price ran up to is. per tin. 



The whole quantity preserved in Nova Scotia was 

 returned at 



Tins. Value. 



1872 2,422,508 l2I,H5 



1873 3.462,298 ... ... 173,115 



In New Brunswick only 38,500 cans were put up in 

 1869 ; in 1871 the quantity had increased to 224,000 

 tins, and in the two subsequent years the advance was as 

 follows : 



Tins. Value 



1872 1,055,485 27,740 



1873 1,387,700 69,400 



The business of " canning " lobsters is annually ex- 

 tending, and threatens the annihilation of the beds, but 

 it is now proposed that no lobsters shall be taken with the 

 eggs attached, or weighing less than one pound and a 

 half. By this means the destruction will, it is hoped, be 

 limited, and the same error which was committed in the 

 case of the salmon fisheries prevented. 



In 1873 more than 4,000,000 one-pound tins of lobsters 

 were sent from British North America into the markets of 

 the world. In 1874 the value of the lobsters preserved 

 was 203,000, besides the fresh ones sent to the United 

 States, valued at 24,000. 



In some parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence they are so 

 plentiful that, notwithstanding their increased commercial 



