DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES,

FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
DEPUTY
OF TILE
MINISTER OF FISHERIES
FOR TILE YEAR 1888.
To the Honorable
CHARLES H. TUPPER,
ilinister of Marine and Fisheries.
Sia,—I have the honor to submit the fifth annual report of the Department of
Fisheries. The financial statements are for the year ended 30th Jane, ] 888, while
the statistical tables and appendices extend to the 31st Daceraber of that year.
The late date to which these statistics are compiled and the particulars necessary to
complete them from remote districts whore fishing is actively pursued until the very
close of navigation, necessarily involve much labor and preclude the possibility of
laying this report on the table of the House at the opening of Parliament.
CONDITION AND YIELD OF THE FISHERIES IN 1888.
The total value of the fisheries of Canada for the year 1388 is as follows :—
Nova Scotia .$ 7,817,030 42
New Brunswick 2,941,863 05
British Columbia . 1,902,195 50
Qriebeo 1,860,012 96
Ontario...... l,839)89 09
Prince Edward Island.... 876,862 74
Manitoba and North.Wost Territories 180,677 00
Showing an aggregate of..... .$17,418,510 76
As against $18,386,103.75 for the year 1887, or a decrease of $967,592.99,
This deficiency is made up as follows:—
Nova Scotia $562,752 26
New Brunswick . 617,643 84
Prince Edward Island 160563 10
British Columbia. . 72,691 58