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Connecticut has about 60, mostly’ from Noank and New 
London. 
There are also extensive boat-fisheries at Eastport (150 
men), Southwest Harbor (150), Belfast (250), Castine 
(250), Boothbay (180), Portland (300), Cape Porpoise (80), 
Bristol and Matinicus (100), Cape Ann (350), Provincetown 
(260), Chatham (100), Hyannis (70), Nantucket (366), Edgar- 
town (40), Nomans Land (50), New Bedford and Dart- 
mouth (220), &c., &c. Probably 5,000 men are thus em- 
ployed on the New England coast. 
The most satisfactory account of the Columbia River 
salmon-fisheries was published in Afpleton’'s Journal, May 20, 
1076, by Mr. Barnet Phillips. He estimates. :the ‘value tien 
the products of the canneries at $2,500,000. 
The mackerel-fishery is the fishery upon which the decis- 
ion of the Halifax Commission hinged. It was claimed at 
the time of the session in July, 1877, that almost all the 
mackerel brought into the United States were taken in the 
waters of the _Dominion of Canada, and the award was 
fixed accordingly at $15,000,000. It was proved conclusively 
before the commission that nine-tenths of the mackerel 
brought into our market were taken, not in the waters of 
Canada, but on our coast. It was really an unjust award, 
if it were desirable to pursue this subject fully. In regard 
to the distribution of the.mackerel, that is another of the- 
fishes which extend over the whole of the North Atlantic 
and the European coast, as well as our own. It extends 
farther? south ‘than ‘the!:cod; but not | so.-far::north” Ht is 
found as far- north as the Straits of Bellisle, and south at 
Cape Hatteras. 
In regard to menhaden: This industry has grown almost 
beyond the knowledge of those who have even studied it 
