General Introduciion. 



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Value of the Imports of Products of the Fisheries into 

 THE United Kingdom in 1870. 



We give the statistics of this year, as it is the latest 

 for which details have been furnished by the Board of 

 Trade. None of the minor articles are now enumerated 

 in the official trade returns : — 



Fish 

 Isinglass 



Mother-of-pearl shells 

 Oil, cod-liver... 

 „ whale ... 

 Whale fins 

 Orchella weed 

 Pearls ... 



Seal-skins 



Carried forward 



;^768,387 

 83,023 

 76,489 

 64.157 

 890,553 

 79,482 

 112,693 



16,675 

 270,024 



;f 2, 361,483 



;f6,oss,866 



If we could trace the wealth of nations arising from 

 their fisheries, it would be found to be beyond calculation. 



The following gives the foreign trade in fish of difierent 

 countries : — 



