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.. and 137,794 quintals of West India fish, at 9s.. 90 mackerel vessels, at 200 barrels each, are 18,000 barrels at 18s... .£ 61,359.00 62,007.06 16,200.00 5,000.00 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... Total Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., VIII, pp. 202–203. 5,400.00 4,500.00 10,000.00 75,000.00 3,500.00 .£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. 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. |