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Table VI . — Exportation of clam-bait to the British Provinces. 
Place whence exported. 
Barrels. 
Value. 
1886. 
1887. 
1886. 
1887. 
Sedgwick, Me 
650 
700 
3, 787 
652 
550 
3, 228 
$3, 580 
3, 850 
20,800 
$3, 590 
3, 050 
17, 800 
Deer Isle, Me 
Portland, Me., and vicinity 
Total 
5, 137 
4, 430 
28, 230 
24, 440 
Table VII. — The New England mackerel fishery in 1886. 
Customs district. 
Number of ves- 
sels fishing 
with — 
Southern spring 
fishery. 
New England 
shore. 
Nova Scotia shore 
and Gulf of St. 
Lawrence. 
Purse 
seines. 
Hooks, 
nets, 
and 
traps. 
Sold 
fresh. 
Brine- 
salted. 
Sold 
fresh. 
Brine- 
salted. 
Sold 
fresh. 
Brine- 
salted. 
Barrels. 
Barrels . 
Barrels. 
Barrels. 
Barrels. 
Barrels. 
Passamaquoddy 
1 
145 
100 
73 
364 
Frenchman’s Bay 
3 
4 
j 
91 
232 
Castine 
9 
1 
445 
130 
125 
1,045 
1 545 
Belfast 
15 
6 
364 
7 
462 
3 015 
W aldohorough 
6 
27 
39 
1,348 
821 
’ 500 
Wiscasset 
18 
7 
929 
60 
441 
468 
1,418 
Portland 
45 
4 
4, 058 
461 
2, 417 
3,590 
760 
5, 888 
Kennebunk 
2 
17 
14 
Portsmouth 
4 
1 
200 
1, 448 
150 
N ewburyport 
2 
1 
200 
252 
Gloucester 
122 
19 
9, 250 
770 
2, 379 
3, 510 
48, 123 
Salem and Beverly 
1 
7 
Marblehead 
13 
1 
6, 175 
296 
Boston 
23 
2 
370 
511 
1, 944 
1, 147 
3, 083 
Plymouth 
2 
1 
8 
1, 003 
13 
Barnstable 
73 
22 
700 
1,369 
2, 814 
4, 546 
6, 032 
Nantucket 
3 
11 
23 
Edgartown 
6 
3 
5 
109 
New Bedford 
1 
8 
69 
438 
Newport 
19 
422 
434 
Providence 
2 
86 
20 
Stonington 
8 
519 
2 
New London 
1 
4 
59 
223 
75 
Total 
338 
149 
16, 136 
3, 676 
21, 687 
17, 616 
760 
70, 296 
