290 ANIMAL FOOD RESOITRCES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



(difficult to state with precision the quantity taken. On 

 the Cornish coast about 1,600 to 2,000 tons are caught in 

 some years. In 1875 about 4,000 long hundred (120) were 

 taken on the Norfolk coast. In 1876 the Irish mackerel 

 fishery yielded 139,000 boxes of six score fish each. The 

 mackerel fishery in 1878 resulted in a take of 92,626 

 boxes, as compared with 114,562 boxes in 1877. In 

 1883 the catch of mackerel in Ireland by 270 boats 

 amounted to 242,975 boxes, averaging 14s. per box^ and 

 realising £170,624, the largest amount ever received in 

 one year. 



On the Sussex and other coasts they are also taken ; 

 10,000 to 12,000 tons are sold annually in London. 

 The average catch on the French coasts is greater than 

 that of Ireland. A large quantity are sent from Norway 

 in ice. On the North American coasts a very extensive 

 trade is done in pickled mackerel. About 200,000 

 barrels are taken there yearly in British waters, and 

 350,000 barrels in American waters. In 1870, 16,000 

 barrels of mackerel were cured in Prince Edward Island, 

 and in 1883, 93,000 barrels in New Brunswick and Nova 

 Scotia. 



Fishing for mackerel and herring is not pursued to so 

 great an extent as might be the case if the demand were 

 greater and the expense less. The fishery returns for 

 1872 were— 



Herring. Mackerel. 



Barrels. Barrels. 



Nova Scotia 170,657 115,833 



Quebec 29,069 1,759 



New Brunswick 124,157 2,217 



Ontario 6,974 — 



330,857 119,809 



Besides the salted mackerel a good many are put 

 up in hermetically sealed tins, about 351,000 cans were 

 exported from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in 1883 

 valued at 7|d. per can. 



From a careful diagram of the mackerel catch of Massa- 

 chusetts it appears to have grown steadily from 7,000 



