The other Provinces $3.55. 
     
    

    
     Exhibitions of live stock, farm, garden and dairy products, and manufactures, 
     
     are, and have been, for a number of years, of annual occurrence. Great public 
     
     interest is taken in these shows, and the Provincial Exhibition, held in Charlotte- 
     
     town, although only supported by a small public grant, is, from an agricultural 
     
     point of view superior to any annual Show of the kind in Eastern Canada. 
     
    
   
   
    
     FISHERIES. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Prince Edward Island is, without doubt, the best fishing station in the Gulf 
     
     of St. Lawrence, but the habits and feelings of the inhabitants are so decidedly 
     
     agricultural, that the fisheries have not received from them the attention which 
     
     they deserve. They consist chiefly of mackerel, lobsters, herring, cod, hake and 
     
     oysters, while salmon, bass, shad, halibut and trout, are caught in limited quanti- 
     
     ties. Their value may be appreciated lrom the fact that, during 1882, there were 
     
     ' taken from the sea 16,000,000 lbs. weight of fish food, and 107,250 lbs. from the 
     
     running waters, besides 5,500,000 of edible fish used as bait. In other words, 
     
     there were taken, at the lowest calculation, for food 8,000,000 of mackerel, 
     
     6,000,000 of herring, and 10,000,000 of cod and bake, 3,000,000 of oysters, and 
     
     22,000,000 of lobsters besides other fish. 
     
    

    
     P The Dominion Fisheries Report for 1886 gives the following statement for the 
     
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     ’ 1886. 
     
     KINDS or FISH. i— 
     
     Quantity. Value. 
     
     $ cts. 
     
     Cod ..................................... cwt. 12,850 51,400,00 
     
     Ditto, boneless.. . . 35,790 2,147,40 
     
     Herring ..................... . ............ .Brls. 43,204 . 129,612.00 
     
     Mackerel ................................. Brls. 27,534 275,340,00 
     
     Ditto, preserved. . . . .. .. . . . . .. . .Cans. 679,584 67,958,40 
     
     Haddock ..................................... lbs- 71,550 4,293,00 
     
     Hake ....cwt. 9,530 28,590.00 
     
     Salmon,fresh..............................1bs. 2,440 365:00 
     
     Alewives..................................brls. 700 2,100,00 
     
     Halibut....:................................lbs 9,680 580,90 
     
     Bass ...................................... “ 200 12,00 
     
     Trout. “ 75,195 4,511.70 
     
     Smelts .................................... “ 74.100 4,446,00 
     
     Eels ................. . .................... “ 150,650 9,039,00 
     
     shad ............................ . ......... u 750 45,00 
     
     Oysters...................................brls. 33,125 99,375,00 
     
     Lobsters, preserved in cans .................. lbs. 3,616,780 434,013,60 
     
     Cod and Hake sounds . . . ................... “ 20,580 12,348,00 
     
     Fidh' oil...... . ................ galls. 14,997 7,498,50 
     
     “ manure .............................. tons. 3,315 3,315,00 
     
     Fresh fish local consumption ................... . . . . . . 5,000,00 
     
     $1,141,991.40 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The oyster fishery of the Island is extensive and annually increasing, and 
     
     though many of the shells seem very coarse and heavy, to any one accustomed 
     
     to the “London Natives,” yet the coarseness is all on the outSIde, and no more