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at 30 cents per hundred, the average price paid to the fishermen, would have a value of over 
$84,500. If we add to this the cost of the barrels and the labor in handling it would bring the 
first cost of the fish up to nearly $90,000. 
According to Mr. R. C. Green and Mr. Thomas L. Holmes, two of the principal herring dealers 
of Eastport, about twenty-five American vessels and eight or ten large boats, with one hundred 
and thirty men, were engaged in the capture of the herring. During the season, which lasts from 
late in November to the 10th of March, these fishermen caught about 8,000,000, the remainder 
being taken by the fishermen of New Brunswick. 
According to the statement of Capt. Henry B. Thomas, published in the Eastport Sentinel, 
there were shipped from Eastport and vicinity during the winter of 1880-81 32,630,000 herring, 
which, including labor and barrels, had a value of $98,700 to the producers. 
The following table, compiled from the files of the Cape Ann Advertiser, the Eastport Sen- 
tinel, and other sources, shows approximately the number of cargoes of frozen herring, together 
with an estimate of the number of fish brought to the United States each year since the origin of 
this trade. 
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1854-55. 2... Lil ocusan 1 80,000 |..-..-.....24. 80, 000 
1855-56 .....-. 4 |seweenes 4 730, 000 |..-.-.---.---- 730, 000 
1856-57 .....-- iB eee 6 1, 500, 000 |...-.-......2. 1, 500, 000 
1857-'58 ....... bd emma 11 38,300, 000 |............2. 8, 300, 000 
1858-59 ....... 19 leseracied 13 8,900, 000 |.....-..-.--2- 8, 900, 000 
1859-'60 ....... 16 |........ 16 4,800,000 |...........--.] 4,800, 000 
1860-'61 ....... 19s | aieaicaed 19 5, 700, 000 |.....-.....--. 5, 700, 000 
1861-62 ....... 15 |savvesd 15 4, 500, 000 |.............. 4, 500, 000 
1862-'63....... 28 |........ 28 8, 400, 000 |...........-2. 8, 400, 000 
1863-'64 _..... 99. || csacvces 39 10,700,000 |.............. 10,700, 000 
1864-'65 ....... 2) ae 21 6, 800, 0U0 |.............. 6, 800, 000 
1865-'66 ....... 89 le vectcce 29 9, 500, 000 |.............. 9, 500, 000 
1866-67 ....... “4 1 451 14,200, 000 200,000 | 14, 400, 000 
1867~'68....... 29 8 37 9, 400, 000 1,600,000 | 11, 000, 000 
1868-'69 ...... 82 12 441 10, 400, 000 2,700,000 | 13, 100, 000 
1869-'70....... pr 20 44 7, 800, 000 4,600,000 | 12, 800, 000 
1870-71 ....... 23 36 59 7, 500, 000 8,600,000 | 16, 100, 000 
1871-'72........ 18 26 44 6, 300, 000 6,500,000 | 12, 800, 000 
1872~'73 . 2.2... 18 44 62 6,300,000 | 10,900,000 | 17, 200, 000 
1873-'74 ....... 15 34 49 5, 250, 000 9,650,000 | 14, 900, 000 
1874~'75 ....... 23 33 56 8, 000, 000 8,400,000 | 16, 400, 000 
1875-76 ....... 20 52 72 7,000,000 | 13,700,000 | 20, 700, 000 
1876-77 ....... 28 BT 85 9,300,000 | 16,000,000 | 24, 300, 000 
1877-78 ....... 26 70 96 6,300,000 | 18,600,000 | 24, 800, 000 
1878-79 ....... 10 90 100 3,400,000 } 23,700,000 | 27, 100, 000 
1879-'80..... va 8 102 110 2,700,000 | 28,175,000} 30, 875, 000 
1880-'81....... 3 118 121 1,000,000 | 82,630,000 | 33, 630, 000 
* Includjng the quantity shipped by steamer from Eastport. 
