BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION, 159 
44.— STATISTIC® ©F THE FISfMESSIES ©F THE PJ&©VSHCF ©F BRIT- 
ISH COLUMBIA F®I& THIS ¥EAE 1SS7. 
B¥ THOMAS MO WAT, 
Inspector of Fisheries for British Columbia . 
Detailed statement of the number of persons, the quantity of apparatus, and the amount of 
capital employed in the fisheries of the Province of British Columbia during the year 1887, 
together with the quantities and values of the various products. 
PERSONS EMPLOYED. 
Sailors - 229 
Fishermen 3,095 
N ative hunters - 295 
Shoresmen 2, 535 
Total 6,154 
APPARATUS AND CAPITAL EMPLOYED. 
(a) 
( 6 ) 
(c) 
Apparatus specified. 
Number. 
Value. 
Vessels and boats: 
Steamers, schooners, and sloops 
Fishing boats 
Cedar canoes 
Flat-boats and scows 
Total 
Gill-nets and seines: 
Salmon gill-nets 
Salmon seines 
Herring seines 
Other seines 
Total 
90 
991 
181 
96 
$137, 500 
41,915 
6, 240 
14, 725 
1,358 
200, 380 
1, 379 
19 
41 
53 
1, 492 
127, 450 
7. 700 
7, 700 
19, 225 
162, 075 
Shore property— estimated value: 
Canneries. 
Oil factories 
Salting stations 
Freezing establishments. 
20 
2 
360, 000 
15, 000 
20, 000 
10, 000 
Total 
405, 000 
QUANTITIES AND VALUES OF PRODUCTS. 
Kinds specified. 
(а) Fish: 
Salmon, fresh 
Salmon, smoked 
Salmon, salted 
Salmon, canned (in one-pound cans) 
Sturgeon, fresh 
Halibut, fresh 
Herring, fresh 
Herring, smoked 
Trout, fresh 
Eulachon, fresh 
Eulachon, salted 
Eulachon, smoked 
Assorted fish 
Shellfish, sardines, and anchovies (estimated) 
Total 
(б) Other products: 
Skins: 
Fur seal 
Hair seal 
Sea otter 
Oil: 
Eulachon 
Dogfish (refined) 
Mixed (refined) 
Total ... 
Quantities. 
Prices. 
Values. 
.pounds. . 
do 
.barrels.. 
.pounds.. 
— do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
— do 
.barrels.. 
..boxes.. 
pounds.. 
2, 226, 600 
31, 050 
4, 459 
9, 795, 984 
249, 000 
386, 000 
206, 000 
14, 500 
55, 500 
25, 500 
115 
350 
712; 000 
$0.10 
.16 
12. 00 
.12 
.06 
.10 
.03 
.10 
.10 
.06 
12. 00 
2 . 00 
.05 
$222, 660. 00 
4, 968. 00 
53, 508. 00 
1,175, 518. 08 
14, 940. 00 
38, 600. 00 
6, 180. 00 
1, 450. 00 
5, 550. 00 
1, 530. 00 
1, 380. 00 
700. 00 
35, 600. 00 
18, 500. 00 
1,581,084. 08 
number. . 
do 
do — 
33, 800 7. 00 
3, 500 . 75 
75 60. 00 
236, 600. 00 
2, 625. 00 
4, 500. 00 
gallons . . 
. . .do 
...do 
340 
67, 500 
40, 000 
1. 00 
.50 
.40 
340. 00 
33, 750. 00 
16, 000. 00 
293, 815. 00 
