33 



French cod -fishery. 



1504. 

 15-27. 

 1577. 

 1578. 

 1G15. 

 1721 . 

 1744- 

 1745. 

 1768. 

 1773. 

 1774. 

 1786. 

 1787- 

 1816. 

 18-23. 

 1824. 

 1825. 

 1826. 

 1827. 

 1828. 

 1829. 

 1830. 

 1831. 

 1833. 

 1834. 

 1835. 

 1839. 

 1841. 

 1843. 

 1847. 



Years. 



No. of 

 vessels. 



Tonnage. 



Number of 

 men. 



Quintal.s of 



Value. 



12 



150 

 1.50 

 100 

 400 

 564 

 100 

 2.59 

 264 



184 



348 



3:«; 



341 

 387 

 381 

 414 

 377 

 302 



400 

 400 



24, 420 

 24, 996 



30, 954 

 16,258 

 36, 999 

 35, 172 

 38, 938 



44, 868 



45, 094 

 50, 574 

 45, 036 

 35, 180 



54, 995 



27,500 



1, 441, 500 



9, 722 

 10, 128 

 15,137 



7, 000 



6, 000 

 8,108 

 3, 6.55 

 6,672 

 6,311 



7, 088 

 8, 238 

 7, 957 

 9,428 

 8,174 

 6,243 



10, 000 

 10, 000 



200, 000 



426, 400 

 128, 590 



300, 000 



300, 000 



11,499 

 11,900 



12, 000 



450, 000 



$861,723 



COD-FISHERY OF SPAIN. 



Participating in the excitement which prevailed in Europe on the 

 discovery in the American seas of varieties of fish not previously known 

 or used in the fnsts of the Roman church, Spain was an early competi- 

 tor with France ;md England. Vessels of her flag were certainly at 

 Newfoiindhind as soon as the year 1517. Sixty years later, the nuni- 

 hcr of licr vessels employed in the fishery there is estimated at one 

 hundred. The number rapidly diminished. Sylvester Wyat, of Bris- 

 tol, England, who made a voyage to the St. Lawrence and Newfound- 

 land in 1-593, found only eight Spani.<h ships in a fleet of upwards 

 of eighty sail of French and English vessels. From the remarks of 

 Smith — who became the f itlier of Virginia — it would seem tliat in tlie 

 early part of the seventeenth century, liie Spanish fishery was pursued 

 with greater vigor than at the time last mentioned. But the greater 

 W(,'altli to be acquired in the gold regions of South America soon lured 

 the S})aiiiards from an avocation of so great toil, and ot" so uncertaia 

 rewards. No contrj)versy l)etween Spain ami England as to their re- 

 spective rights to the fishing grounds, ever arose. 



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