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grounds which we can now possibly obtain, and the right also lo 

 tax their fish to the extent of entire prohibition. In other words, we 

 could once catch fish where we pleased, and impose what duty we 

 pleased on the produce of the colonial fisheries; but, as the direct 

 result of the convention of 1818, we offer to relinquish the latter right 

 without condition, to get back, to make good, the former one. 



Statistics of the cod and maclterel fisheries of Maine, New Hampshire, Mas- 

 sachusetts, and Connecticut, June 1, 1850, as derived at the Census Offi,C€, 

 Washington. 



' The return of the herring fishery of Maine is 29,685 boxes of smoked, of the value of $11,626. 



t Note. 



County. 



Capital. 



Men. 



Wages or 

 earnings. 



Quintals of 

 cod. 



Barrels of 

 mackerel. 



Barnstable 

 Dukes (a) . 



E^ssex 



Nantucket 

 Norfolk . . . 

 Plymouth . 

 guffolk . . . 



$1,230, 

 12, 

 699, 

 8. 

 93^ 

 73, 

 10. 



4,719 



68 



2,144 



40 



607 



331 



$73,941 



1,284 



45,491 



680 



9,305 



7,054 



240 



83,860 



2,000 



126, .530 



980 



],800 



No return. 



No return. 



114,530 

 3.472 

 77.005 

 '487 

 15,329 

 1.5,650 

 10,000 



$1,031,027 

 18,047 

 836,112 

 6,1.56 

 104.161 

 112,938 

 80,000 



2,127,885 



7,917 



137,995 



215, 170 



236,468 



2,188,441 



(a) 1,250 barrels of herrings returned from Dukes county. 



The statistics of 1840 show that in Maine the catch of codfish was 

 106,062 quintals more than in 1850. In Massachusetts the difference 

 was still greater, the quantity in the former year being 389,715 quin- 

 tals ; in the latter, only 215,170. 



The returns of 1840 give the catch of mackerel in Maine at 54,171 

 barrels ; and in Massachusetts at 1 24,755 barrels. By comparing these 

 figures with the above table, it will be seen that the quantity was much 

 diminished in the former State in 1850, and much increased the same 

 year in the latter. 



The aggregate decrease in the produce of the cod-fishery in Maine, 

 New Hampshire, and Massachusetts is very large — the table for 1850 

 showing the catch to have been 407,814 quintals, while in 1840 it was 

 697,128 quintals. 



