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manned by 78,290 fishermen, using fishing gear aggregating 

 in value of $[1,491,300.00, showing an invested capital of 

 more than two million dollars over that in 1895. 



Fishing 1 Industry. 



The Canadian Fishery Industry is one of great value and 

 capable of enormous development. It is gratifying to record 

 its steady increase and improvement, which shows it to be 

 proceeding on a healthy and permanent basis, notwithstand- 

 ing the fluctuations which are ' to be looked for in a vocation 

 so hazardous and so amenable to the inflences of wind and 

 weather. 



In 1895 the aggregate yield of the fisheries of the Dominion 

 was valued at $20, 199,338.00, while in 1901, (the last pub- 

 lished statistics), they yielded $25,737,153.00. 



This betterment may be ascribed to some extent to fluctua- 

 tions in the general yield ; but the following comparative 

 statements indicate a considerable development in some of the 

 principal branches of the industry : 



SALMON CANNING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 



NOTE : The season of 1901 was the best packing season experienced 



