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C. Table showing the mackerel fishing fleet of the United States, classified by States, according to I'ind of apparatus wed. 



D. Table showing, by States, the quantity of mackerel taken by the New England fishermen in 1880, and the value of the same 



in the condition in which they were placed upon the market. 



Including hoth the fresh and salt mackerel used for canning. 



As already intimated, there was a great falling off in the Canadian mackerel fisheries during 

 the year, the bulk of the catch, which amounted to over 70,000,000 pounds, according to the 

 Canadian Fishery Eeport,* being taken by the shore fishermen of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward 

 Island. Of the entire quantity 233,669 barrels were pickled. In the Canadian report the average 

 price of the salt mackerel is given as $9.25 per barrel, but as the fish were much inferior in quality 

 to the American catch these figures are evidently incorrect. Statistics show that 105,730 bar- 

 rels of the above, equal to nearly one-half of the catch, were marketed in the United States (and 

 it is fair to presume that these were of average quality), where they were ordinarily sold at lower 

 figures than the fish taken by the New England fleet. If we suppose the Canadian fish to be equal 

 to those taken on our own shores (a supposition which is hardly warranted), the value of the catch, 

 as given by the Canadian authorities, must still bo reduced by $818,662, as the average price of 

 the New England fish during the season was only $5.75 per barrel. 



* Supplement No. 2 | to the Eleventh Annual Report of the | Minister of Marine and Fisheries | for the year 



1880. ===== Fisheries Statements | for the year | 1880. Ottawa: | Printed by MacLean, Roger &, Co., Wellington 



street. | 1881. 



