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Particulars of Pearl Fisheries 



from 1658 to 1904— coat 



• 



Off Madura Coast. 



Off Ceylon 



Coast. 



Tear of 

 fisher v. 



Government 



proceeds. 



Remarks. 



Year of 

 fishery. 



Government 

 proceeds. 



Remarks. 





RS. 







RS. 





, . 





. . . 



1S29 



3,82,737 



Gross proceeds. 



1830 



1,01*639 



Gross proceeds 



1830 



2,22 564 



Do. 



. , 



.... 



.... 



1831 



2,93,366 



Do. 





• • . • 



i . - » 



1832 



45,810 



Do. 





• • . . 



.... 



1833 



3,20,896 



Do. 





• . • c 



• . . . 



1835 



4,03,460 



Do. 







• > • • 



1836 



2,54,935 



Do. 



. . 



■ • . * 



• . • • 



1837 



1,06,312 



Do. 



. . 





.... 



1856 



1,09/220 



Do. 



, . 



• • • • 



• • . • 



1857 



2,03,633 



Do. 







• • . • 



185S 



2,41,200 



Do. 



. , 





• ■ . • 



1859 



4,82,159 



Do. 



1360 

 1861 



} 2,50,176 



Gross proceeds .. \ 



1860 



3,66,816 



Do. 



1862 



1,29,003 



Do. 



.. 





.... 



. . 



.... 



.... 



1863 



5,10,178 



Gross proceeds. 





, 



. • - • 





. . . 



1874 



1,01,199 



Do. 





, 



...» 







1877 



1,S9,011 



Do. 







. . . ■ 





... 



1879 



95,694 



Do. 







• . • • 





. . . 



1880 



2,00,152 



Do. 





■ 



.... 





... 



1881 

 1884 



6,99,533 

 17,153 



Do. 

 Do. 





, 



. . • ■ 





... 



18S7 



3,96,094 



Do. 





. 



.... 



.... 



18S8 



8,04,247 



Do. 



1889 



1,89,934 



Gross proceeds 



1889 



4,98,377 



Do. 



1890 



25,061 



Do. 



1890 



3, IS, 177 



Do. 



.. 



• . • . 



.... 



1891 



9,63,748 



Do. 



1900 



19,461 



Gross proceeds 







.... 



, , 



.... 



.... 



1903 



8,29,348 



Gross proceeds. 



■• 







1904 



10,65,752 



Do. 



Twenty-four fisheries within 246 years. Fifty-eight fisheries within 246 years. 



Note. — The particulars regarding the Ceylon fisheries prior to 1801 are taken from the appendix to Lee's trans- 

 lation of Ribeyro's " History of Ceylon," Colombo, 1847. The later figures are from offioial returns furnished to rue by 

 the Government of Ceylon. 



The list of fisheries held on the Ceylon side is, I believe, exhaustive ; possibly 

 two or three may he omitted from the enumeration of those upon the Indian coast. 

 As it stands we have a total of twenty-four fisheries recorded from the latter locality 

 as against 53 from the former during the period of 246 years from 1653 to 1904. 



Comparing the two lists a noteworthy feature is that many of the fisheries held 

 on the Tuticorin banks coincide with blank years on the Ceylon banks. 



Thus out of all the Indian fisheries those of 1663, 1669, 1691, 1700, 1784, 1787, 

 1792, 1805, 1807, 1810, 1818, 1822, 1861, 1862 and 1900, fifteen out of the total 

 of twenty-four, were years in which no fishery took place on the Ceylon side. 



Again this fact may be correlated to two others — 



(a) that usually any particular Indian fishery was preceded at a distance of 

 from two to three years by a Ceylon fishery and 



(b) that in the same way each Indian fishery was followed at a similar 

 interval by one on the Ceylon banks. 



Thus the Indian fisheries of — 



1669 



1700 



1747—1749 



1805 



1807 



1810 



1815 



1818 



1822 



1830 



1860—1862 



1889, 1890 



were preceded respectively by Ceylon fisheries 

 held in — 

 1666, 1667. 

 1695—1697. 

 1746. 



1799, 1803 and 1804. 

 1804, 1806. 

 1806, 1808. 

 1809, 1814. 

 1814—1816. 

 1820. 



1828, 1329. 

 1857—1860. 

 1884, 1887. 



