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FISHEEIES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



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total exportation from Nova Seotia for tlie fiscal year 1882 has been 

 8,153,997 pounds, worth $816,012. From the Dominion of Canada the 

 amount was 14,809,152 pounds, worth $1,43) ,741. JSIova Scotia, there- 

 fore, produces more than half of the lobster trade of the Dominion, and 

 this consular district must then produce more than one-fourth of the 

 total production of Canada. England and France are .the principal 

 markets for the export trade outside of the United States. 



The fisheries are well developed in this district. Un the northern 

 shore the lobster can^ping industries are rapidly developing. We find 

 these establishments all along the coast, at Pugwash, Malagash, Point 

 Brul6, Cape John, Toney River, Cariboo Island, Sandy Cove, three on 

 Pictou Island, Point Betty, Merigomish Ponds, Arisaig, Antigonish, 

 and so on, through the counties of Cape Breton ; each of these cost 

 frQui $3,000 to $4,000, and employs on an average from fifty to sixty 

 people. Each cans on an average per annum at least 150,000 cans ; 

 some will probably put up 250,000 cans. Some capital is invested in 

 the herring, cod, mackerel, and salmon fisheries. On the Cape Breton 

 coast the cod fisheries assume much greater importance than on the 

 northern coast. 



statement sliowing the lyrincipal ;point8 in iliefisMvg industries of the Pictou consular dis- 

 trict in 1881. 



For 1883 these figures must all be increased, especially those for 

 canned lobsters. 

 United States Consulate, 



Pictou, N. S., August 30, 1883. 



4>— THE FISHEEIES OF GASPi) BASIN, QUEBEC, FOR 1883. 



By George H. Holt, Consul. 



The trade and navigation of this district are almost entirely con- 

 nected with the fishery establishments. American fishing- vessels, small 

 in number of late years, risked their enterprise in the waters of the Gulf 

 'pf the Saint Lawrence, and a fortunate fftT7 of them fell in with the fine 

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