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the whole placed under proper regulations, it might 

 to-day approach the cod fishery in value. The chief 

 seats of herring fishing are Fortune, Placentia, St. 

 George's, and Bay of Islands, and the average annual 

 value is about as follows: Export, $358,359.00; sold 

 to French and Americans for bait, $150,000.00; and 

 allowing 73,000 barrels for home consumption at $3.00 

 per barrel, gives us a grand total of $727,359.00. 



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According to the last census (1891) there were then 

 340 lobster factories, employing 4,807 persons. The 

 report of the Department of Fisheries for 1893 states 

 that the total number of lobster traps amounted to 

 87,720, and that there were caught 5,054,462 lobsters, 

 from which number 26,214 cases of lobsters (each 

 case containing forty-eight one-pound cans) were 

 packed. These returns apply only to licensed facto- 

 ries ; besides there were a large number of unlicensed 

 factories on the French shore. The total value from 

 1888 to 1892, inclusive, was $2,067,408.00. 



