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hooks and lines, both hand-line and trawl, and from the 

 shore are operated trap-nets, haul-seines and weirs. The 

 commercial food fishes taken inshore are the cod, hake, 

 haddock, pollack, halibut, herring, mackerel, alewife, shad, 

 smelt, flounder and sardine. The most extensive lobster 

 fishery known is carried on along the whole of the eastern 

 shore of Canada, whilst excellent oyster beds exist in many 

 parts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence ; notably on the north coast 

 of Prince-Edward Island, and in the Northumberland Straits. 



The salmon fishery is, of course, the predominant one on 

 tha Pacific coast; but a very extensive halibut fishery is car- 

 ried on in the northern waters of British Columbia in 

 large, well-equipped steamers and vessels. The method of 

 capture is by trawl-lining dories being used for setting and 

 hauling the lines, as in the Atlantic deep-sea fishery. 



Herring are in very great abundance on the Pacific coast, 

 and provide a plentiful supply of bait for the halibut fishery. 



In the inland lake fisheries, the various means of capture 

 in use are gill-nets, pound-nets, seines, and hook-and-line to 

 a great extent. The principal commercial fishes caught are 

 whitefish, trout, pickerel, pike, sturgeon and fresh-water 

 herring the latter in the Great Lakes of Ontario only. 



The total market value of all kinds of fish and fish 

 products taken by Canadian fishermen, in both the sea and 

 inland fisheries, during the fiscal year ended March 31, 1911, 

 amounted to $29,965,433. 



This total is the highest yet reached in any one year 

 in the history of the fisheries of Canada, being $336,263.32 

 greater than that of the preceding year, which was a record 

 one. 



To the total, the sea fisheries contributed $2^,122,596 and 

 the inland fisheries $3,842,837. 



In obtaining these results, there were employed 1,680 

 vessels and tugs, and 38,977 boats, the whole being manned 

 by 68,610 men; while 24,978 persons were employed in the 



