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Canadian waters on the coast of Labrador. About one-fourth of tho 
fishery products of tho colony are taken from Labrador. The shore fishery 
is carried on from the month of May to the end of October, and in certain 
parts of Placontia Bay, until the end of December, and on the West Coast 
(district of Burqac and La Poile) quite an important winter fishery is 
carried on for cod-fish and halibut. 
The bank fishery, in which 280 vessels of a tonnage of 15,212 tons, 
with a creAV of 8710 men, were engaged last year, begins in April and 
ends in the month 'of October. 
The Labrador fishery we may reckon to begin in the latter part of June, 
and it lasts until the latter part of September, or about three months. 
The whole average value of the products of the cod fishery for the years 
1888-90 will be as follows :— 
Export of codfish, 1,097,714 cwt., . . . $4,455,907 
„ of cod oil, 236,716 
Home consumption of codfish, 100,000 cwt., . 400,000 
$5,092,623 
Second in importance is the seal fishery, in which 19 steamers of a 
tonnage of 5947 registered tons, about 20 sailing vessels, and 4284 men, 
were engaged in 1891. Each steamer carries a crew of from 200 
to 300 men. In order to prevent the killing of the young seals at a too 
early date, or shortly after the whelping of the seals, the sailing of the 
steamers to the ice-fields is fixed for the 10th of March. The location of 
the seal fishery is in the Gulf of St Lawrence and off the north-east coast 
of Newfoundland. 
The export value of the seal fishery in the three years 1888-90 has 
been as follows : — 
Number of Seals Taken. 
Value of Oil and Skins. 
1888 
286,464 
$573,984 
1889 
335,627 
675,381 
1890 
220,321 
555,031 
Average for 3 years, 
280,804 
$601,465 
Third in importance is the lobster fishery. In 1890 there was 162 
lobster-canning establishments in operation, exclusive of those on the 
western coast, where the French have treaty rights, where some 60 to 70 
factories have been operated in late years. The number of factories has 
up to this time increased considerably every year This fishery is prose- 
cuted with traps ; each factory runs from 200 to 1800 traps, whicli the 
proprietors furnish the fishermen with, and pay the men, at a rate of from 
70 to 120 cents per 100 for all the lobsters they catch. In some of the 
northern bays the lobsters are also caught by spearing or hooking them up 
from the bottom in shallow water. The close season for these crustaceans 
has been from 5th of August to 5th of September, but as this fishery of 
late years has decreased very much on Account of being pushed too vigor- 
ously, more stringent measures must be taken in order to preserve this 
industry from destruction in the' future, and it is most likely that the 
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