8 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
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There is before me the Report on the Fisheries of Canada for the 
year 1883. On the first page is the statement that the product of 1883 
was $134,100.64 more than for 1882 for the Dominion; the total valua- 
tion for 1883 being $16,958,192. Of course the greater part of this 
enormous production is of salt-water fisheries, while the principal in- 
terest of dwellers along the Great Lakes is respecting the Canadian 
fresh-water fisheries — those of the province of Ontario. Before going 
into that, however, it will be interesting to look at the reports of 1884 
and 1885, and compare the total production for those years with the 
total of 1882 and 1883. The figures are given as follows : 
1882 $16,824,092 34 
1883 A 16,958,192 98 
1884 17,852,721 00 
1885 17,722,97.3 18 
There was a general increase for 1885 in all provinces except that of 
Nova Scotia, where there was a decrease of u nearly half a million in 
the item of mackerel alone.” 
Turning now to the province of Ontario we find the total value given 
for 1883 to be $1,027,032.88, an increase over 1882 of $201,575.86. The 
principal items in the order of their values are : 
Salmon trout $354,692 72 
Wbitefish 264,581 60 
Herring and ciscos 97,070 00 
Pickerel 82, 096 38 
The expenditure for “fishery service” for the entire Dominion for 
the year 1883 was no less than $114,673.76, and in 1884 was $116,531.66, 
of which the amounts for the province of Ontario were as follows : 
Purpose. 
1883. 
1884. 
"Fishery officers, salaries and expenses 
$13, 602 00 
10, 144 95 
$15, 192 73 
8, Oil 17 
Pish-lireeding 
Total 
23, 746 95 
23, 203 90 
The total expenditure for fish-breeding in the Dominion for 1883 was 
$25,776.87, and the amount for fishery officers was $62,341.43. The 
total value of the fish product of Ontario for 1884 was $1,133,724.26. 
The number of men employed in this province as fishery officers in 
1884 was 82, for a coast line no longer than that of the State of Michi- 
gan. This number of men, designated as “ fishery officers,” does not 
include the men employed in fish-breeding, but only those employed as 
inspectors, overseers, and wardens to enforce the fishery laws. 
We desire to call particular attention to the figures for the year 1885, 
because that is the only year in which the Michigan fishery product 
has been accurately reported, and consequently the only season’s fishing 
for which any reasonable comparison can be made between this State 
and the province of Ontario. 
