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said to have been 29,500 hundredweight. The catch in 

 some of the later years may be given : 



In 1814 .- .... 44,650 hundredweight 



1821 49,652 hundredweight 



1823 40,399 hundredweight 



1824 42,240 hundredweight 



In 1845 two hundred vessels from Newfoundland, mostly 

 from Conception Bay, went to Labrador ; they are reported 

 to have employed five thousand men. In 1851 it was 

 estimated that seven hundred vessels went to the Labra- 

 dor from Newfoundland, carrying from ten to fifteen thou- 

 sand men; their catch was computed to be between one 

 hundred and sixty thousand and one hundred and eighty 

 thousand hundredweight. Harvey states that in 1880 

 from one thousand to twelve hundred schooners carrying 

 over thirty thousand people went to Labrador; of these 

 about one hundred vessels were from Canada. 



Prior to 1860 no accurate account was kept as to the 

 annual takings in Labrador. The trade report issued by 

 His Excellency, Sir William MacGregor, in 1906, states that 

 for the thirty years preceding the average annual export 

 of dry codfish from the whole colony of Newfoundland has 

 been 1,246,664 quintals (hundredweight) at an average 

 value of $4,830,079. The report shows the average annual 

 export direct from Labrador in various periods to have 

 totalled as follows: 



1860-64 .... 192,051 hundredweight 



1865-66 .... 197,885 hundredweight 



1873-77 .... 300,854 hundredweight 



1878-82 . . . . 371,681 hundredweight 



1885-89 . . . 216,434 hundredweight 



