The daily union., 1852-08-07

The Boston merchants who are practical men, who are
engaged in The business, and situated that they
can avail themselves of more reliable information than
be by any possibility acquired at this point have
mated the whole number OF vessels employed in this
branch OF industry at $780, and their value at Sl2 000,
ooo including the outfit The value OF nsh caught by
this feet cannot be estimated with any considerable de-
gree OF accuracy II varies from So 900 900 to 900
annually. According TO the Information which have
been able TO acquire, inclined TO the belief that
estimate varying from 10000 to 81 oooooo annually
will be very near the true point. 1t fiuctuang and
uncertain business and the results OF one year cannot
form at all reliable basis for the results of subsequent
year.
trouble which arises, and which prevents the OBJ
tanning of such information as is desirable and as will
enable us 10 state with accuracy what Is the annual
amount OF production OF fisheries arises from the
want OF accuracy the returns, and from the fact that
full returns hardly made. There however,
returns which may be found at stated periods and
other returns at particular localities from which may
draw conclusion that will safely justify in the opin
ION that the annual production of fisheries must be
least from SO 900 TO a. 10000 Some years they
may exceed that The report OF the inspector gener
al of fish, in Massachusetts, gives the quantity and value
OF the mackere inspected by him in 1851 He puts down
$40 vessels, making J9417 tons with 9,99S men,
Now, il will be remarked that in commercial Ia
bes the tonnage engaged the mackeel fisheries is put
down only al 5o,53s ons while the inspector general of
Massachusetts puts IL down at 59,417 The difference
between the two may be explained in this manner: By
decision OF the late Justice Woodbury. fishermen who
were engaged in The cod. fisheries and who
PEELED 10 complete their four months between February
and the November following, might devote portion OF
their time to the mackerel fisheries portion of them
engaged in the mackerel 6sheres and by the esi
made by the inspector OF Massachusetts are placed
that column, thus making the aggregate OF tonnage
engaged in the mackerel fisheries some 10000 tons
above that which appears in the commercial tables
ported at the Treasury Department The irrt part OF
those tables exhibits the number OF vessels the number
OF tons, and the number OF men engaged
The same report also gives us the information to
localities in which the mackerel caught / find
that l4o9o6 barrels caught the Bay Of Cbaleur
and other large bays the OF the provinces from
which are to be excluded, under line drawn from
headland 10 headland, and that 1Ss336 barrels were
caught in all other waters Therefore, learn from
the report of the inspector general that il are ex-
Guided from those large bays by drawing line from
which very nearly one-ha the mackere caught in the
year 1851 taken The value of these according to
The estimate placed upon them by the inspector general
of Massachusetts was ~ ,3i5,576. This is only the
amount OF mackerel caught in 1884, and inspected with
in Massachusetts alone. Il embraces the whole amount
caught aad inspected there and it gives TO us the local
ues in which they were caught. The quantity Of cod
the value OF the same, taken by Massachusetts YES
ses inspected in that STATE for the year 1851 cannot
obtain II the quantity and value OF all descriptions OF
fish could all be ascertained from one State II might
furnish rule upon which estimates for all could be
based.
find from Macgregors report, to which have al.
ready alluded that he has given to the result of his
investigation. in relation TO the fisheries Of Massarhu-
.eis alone in 1897 His is not authority which would
be likely over-estimate the quantity OF ish taken or
the importance of those fisheries According 10 his es,i-
in 1897, have the following regard to the fab
eries in Massachusetts