1038 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. [8] 



IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. 



The United States annually imports nearly $4,000,000 worth of fishery 

 products, of which about one-fourth is brine-salted mackerel from the 

 Dominion of Canada. The total imports for the ten years ended June 

 30, 1882, amounted to $33,861,793, and included 109,737,420. pounds of 

 fresh fish, valued at $3,242,566, and 781,182 barrels of salt mackerel, at 

 $5,513,779, received almost entirely from the Dominion of Canada free 

 of duty under the treaty of Washington. For the year ended June 30, 

 1882, the imports of foreign fishery products amounted to $4,311,894, 

 and included fresh fish, $488,925 ; brine-salted herring, 112,197 barrels, 

 $641,414, received from Canada, Holland, and Germany ; brine-salted 

 mackerel, 58,443 barrels, $397,328, from Canada ; sardines and anchovies 

 in oil, $860,700, chiefly from France; $1,661,569 worth of other fish, chiefly 

 from Canada; and 546,127 gallons of whale and fish oils, worth $261,898, 

 chiefly from Canada and Newfoundland. Of the total imports $2,676,712 

 worth were admitted free of duty, and the balance, $1,635,182, paid 

 duty. 



The annual exports of domestic fishery products for the last ten years 

 has averaged $4,877,062, exclusive of about $1,500,000 worth of fur-seal 

 skins annually sent to Europe from Alaska, and about $100,000 worth 

 of miscellaneous products not separately enumerated in the official re- 

 ports. The domestic exports for the year ended June 30, 1882, amounted 

 to $6,146,127, and included $89,148 worth of fresh fish sent to Canada 

 and Cuba ; dried or smoked fish, $635,155, chiefly to the West Indies ; 

 pickled fish, $244,454, chiefly to the West Indies ; other cured fish, con- 

 sisting largely of canned salmon, $3,218,581, more than two-thirds of 

 which went to England ; oysters, $612,793, more than one-half of which 

 went to England; sperm oil, $551,212, over $500,000 worth of which went 

 to Great Britain ; whale and fish oils, $420,730, chiefly to Europe ; whale- 

 bone, $325,333, chiefly to France and Germany ; and spermaceti, $48,721, 

 to England and Germany. 



The proportion of exports to the various countries of the world in 

 1882 was as follows: Africa, $17,484; Argentine Eepublic, $15,019; 

 Australasia, $340,437 ; Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde Islands, 

 $3,308; Belgium, $5,813; Brazil, $8,254; British Columbia, $16,671; 

 British Guiana, $7,410; British Honduras, $12,460; Central American 

 states, $14,826 ; Chili, $12,334 ; China and Hong Kong, $237,342 ; Den- 

 mark, $2,986 ; Dutch Guiana, $61,962 ; England, $3,054,126 ; France, 

 $271,119; French Guiana, $31,029; Germany, $255,400; Gibraltar, 

 $11,780; Hawaiian Islands, $96,941; Ireland, $15,000; Italy, $104; 

 Japan, $5,823 ; Mexico, $31,744 ; Netherlands, $40,608 ; Newfoundland 

 and Labrador, $256 ; Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Ed- 

 ward Island, $35,993; Peru, $3,775; Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and 

 Northwest Territory, $288,089; Russia, $194; Scotland, $322,953; 

 Spain, $1,275 ; United States of Colombia, $47,408 ; Uruguay, $7,169 ; 

 Venezuela, $14,457 ; British West Indies, $87,046 ; Danish West Indies, 



