FISHERIES AND THEIR PRODUCE. 



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The exportation of fish from Newfoundland 

 in each of the years, 1832, 1833, and 1834, was 

 as follows : — 



In 1836, the number of British vessels engaged 

 in the Newfoundland and Labrador fisheries 

 amounted to 94, with 721 men. The boats 

 employed were 11,427 ; fishermen and boys, 

 49,720; coopers, 1,916 ; fish-curers, 1,916 ; per- 

 sons employed in cleansing, drying, and pack- 

 ing the fish, 26,038 ; labourers, 7,235 ; barrels 

 of herrings, 497,615 ; quantity of cod cured 

 and dried, 38,040 cwts. ; pickled, 6,276 barrels. 

 To return to our o^vn shores. Our home fish- 

 eries, as it respects the property embarked in 

 them, the number of men employed, and the 

 value of their produce, are, in a commercial 

 and pohtical sense, of high importance. The 

 claim to certain fishing-grounds has been settled 

 by treaties between the British government and 

 those of the adjoining kingdoms of Evirope; and 

 the invasion of these stations, or the forcible 



