382 ANIMAL FOOD RESOURCES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



an extensive establishment in Sambro Settlement, 

 Halifax. The proprietors employ coasters to visit the 

 fishing stations along the shore. These collect lobsters 

 in immense quantities to supply their extensive fishing 

 establishment, which puts up and exports 150,000 tins 

 annually. Lobsters are found in various parts of the 

 Annapolis basin. In Nova Scotia, in 1869, 52,400 cans 

 or tins of lobsters, of one pound each, were recorded as 

 being put up. In 1870 the quantity was more than ten 

 times as great, viz., 553,000 cans, valued at 7|d. per can, 

 or 82,950 dollars. In 1871 the quantity preserved in 

 the province had increased to 905,500 tins, and in 1872 

 the trade had actually grown so wonderfully that no less 

 than 2,422,508 tins, valued at Is. each, were accounted 

 for in the returns. Even this enormous yield became 

 vastly increased in 1873, when 3,462,298 tins, of the 

 gross value of 865,574 dollars, were preserved. 



At Quebec the first record of the new business was in 

 1872, when 88,320 tins, of one pound each, were preserved, 

 the value of which, estimated at 7^d. per tin, was 13,248 

 dollars. Here we find the industry falling off in the 

 following year to 15,000 tins, worth 2,250 dollars. In 

 the North American provinces generally, in 1873, 

 4,864,998 tins of lobsters were actually put up and sent 

 to the markets of the world; and besides this, no account 

 is taken of the quantity sold alive, or in a fresh state 

 untinned. The exports in recent years have been as 

 follows from the Dominion of Canada : — 



Lbs. 



1873 1,564,793 



1876 4,575,285 



Lbs. 



1879 10,980,374 



1880 9,211,527 



The American standard size at which lobsters may be 

 taken varies in different States from 10 inches to 11|^ 

 inches clear in the body. The' minimum size allowed in 

 the British American provinces of 9 inches is considered 

 too small. The lobsters caught annually in the Do- 

 minion are valued at £400,000. 



The quantity taken in the last two years were : — 



