Sessional Papers Volume 22, No. 8 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...since the collapse of the mackerel fishery, it is the largest in the whole Bay Chaleur and Straits of Northumberland. How much longer it will continue to bo a profitable industry depends entirely upon the measures now adopted to prevent its exhaustion. FROST-FISH AND FLOUNDERS. While the demand for these fishes continues to increase at higher prices, the supply, like that of smelts, is growing smaller. In 1886 the catch of frost-fis1 was "713,875 pounds; this year it is 174,95 pounds. The catch of flounders in 18-7 was 122,470 pounds; in 18fe8 it fell to 83,650 pounds, and yet the demand for both was greater at higher prices. No more convincing proof cao be offered, were such necessary, of the "destruction caused by bag-nets, than their effects on these fishes, In 187t both were very plentiful. The complaint of fishermen was that they obstructed the catch of smelts. At that time vast quantities were wasted because no market had beeo found for their disposal. Now that ample markets and remunerative prices are offered the supply is quite inadequate to the demand. This has been the history of all our fisheries, and coming generations will lament the stupid and wasteful ways of their progenitors. TROUT. It is quite impossible to get even an approximation to the quantity of trout taken in the piovioce. Only the quantity exported and that whicn coaies to our local markets can be ascertained. But these form a very small part of the catch by anglers and potfishers who frequent all our lakes and streams from spring to fait. The quantity exported falls short of last year's figures by 18,000 pounds. The close season should extend to 1st May, in order that fishing through the ice may be pre. vented. HERRING. Herring have been very plentiful all through ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...since the collapse of the mackerel fishery, it is the largest in the whole Bay Chaleur and Straits of Northumberland. How much longer it will continue to bo a profitable industry depends entirely upon the measures now adopted to prevent its exhaustion. FROST-FISH AND FLOUNDERS. While the demand for these fishes continues to increase at higher prices, the supply, like that of smelts, is growing smaller. In 1886 the catch of frost-fis1 was "713,875 pounds; this year it is 174,95 pounds. The catch of flounders in 18-7 was 122,470 pounds; in 18fe8 it fell to 83,650 pounds, and yet the demand for both was greater at higher prices. No more convincing proof cao be offered, were such necessary, of the "destruction caused by bag-nets, than their effects on these fishes, In 187t both were very plentiful. The complaint of fishermen was that they obstructed the catch of smelts. At that time vast quantities were wasted because no market had beeo found for their disposal. Now that ample markets and remunerative prices are offered the supply is quite inadequate to the demand. This has been the history of all our fisheries, and coming generations will lament the stupid and wasteful ways of their progenitors. TROUT. It is quite impossible to get even an approximation to the quantity of trout taken in the piovioce. Only the quantity exported and that whicn coaies to our local markets can be ascertained. But these form a very small part of the catch by anglers and potfishers who frequent all our lakes and streams from spring to fait. The quantity exported falls short of last year's figures by 18,000 pounds. The close season should extend to 1st May, in order that fishing through the ice may be pre. vented. HERRING. Herring have been very plentiful all through ...

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March 2012

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978-1-130-44137-6

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