APPENDIX

A.

"A CALCULATION OF THE STATE OF THE COD AND WHALE FISHERY, BELONGING TO MASSACHUSETTS IN 1763: COPIED FROM A PAPER PUBLISHED IN 1764.

300 vessels in the cod fishery caught 102,265 quintals of

merchantable fish, at 12s...

.£ 61,359.00

and 137,794 quintals of West India fish, at 9s. 90 mackerel vessels, at 200 barrels each, are

62,007.06

18,000 barrels at 18s....

16,200.00

Shad alewives and other pickled fish, 10,000 bbls. at 10s.
12 bbls. of oil to each cod fishing vessel are 1,600, at 30s.
15,000 hhds. for packing West India fish, at 6s.
West India fish from Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland in
return for provisions, rum, sugar and molasses...
180 sail of whale fishing vessels, the exportations to
Great Britain amounting, in oil and bone, to.....
To the West Indies and Continent in do...

5,000.00

5,400.00 4,500.00

10,000.00

75,000.00

3,500.00

Total

Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., VIII, pp. 202–203.

.£242,966.06"

B.

STATISTICS OF THE COD-FISHERY OF MASSACHUSETTS FROM THE YEAR 1765 TO 1775, AND FROM 1786 TO 1790.1

1 Sabine, Report of the Principal Fisheries of the Am. Seas, p. 174.

C.

STATISTICS OF THE BANK, BAY, AND LABRADOR CODFISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND, 1790-1810.1

Vessels employed in the Bank, Bay, and Labrador fisheries.

Tonnage

Number of men.

Number of hogsheads of salt consumed.

Number of quintals of fish taken.

Number of barrels of oil made..

1,232

85,140

10,459

178,370

.1,158,700

37,520

RECAPITULATION OF THE COD AND MACKEREL FISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND, 1790-1800.1

1 Adams, Duplicate Letters, quoting a letter from a gentleman of Boston.

D.

QUANTITY AND VALUE OF THE PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS TAKEN IN THE FISHERIES OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES IN 1905.1

E.

NEW ENGLAND CATCH OF SALT MACKEREL FOR THIRTYTWO YEARS, COMPARING THE NORTH BAY WITH THE SHORE CATCH.