. The fisheries of Canada [microform]. Fisheries; Fish; Pêches; Poissons. 14 CANADIAN ECXDNOMICa If' heavy gales,—lose every year much precious time during which the fishermen of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick reap an abundant harvest. The Eeports on the fisheries of the last few years show a noticeable diminution in the quantity of fish caught by the fishermen of the Province of Quebec, and this deficiency was due to no other cause than the frequent storms which raged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during the last few years. The summer fishing has been a failure this year again owing to the same
. The fisheries of Canada [microform]. Fisheries; Fish; Pêches; Poissons. 14 CANADIAN ECXDNOMICa If' heavy gales,—lose every year much precious time during which the fishermen of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick reap an abundant harvest. The Eeports on the fisheries of the last few years show a noticeable diminution in the quantity of fish caught by the fishermen of the Province of Quebec, and this deficiency was due to no other cause than the frequent storms which raged in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during the last few years. The summer fishing has been a failure this year again owing to the same cause, though there was fish in abundance. Though the official Eeports show an annual increase in the catch of codfish, we may safely say that, considering the increasing number of fishermen, the development of this fishery is station- ary. And this condition, as remarked by Messrs. Hatton and Hervey before referred to, is not caused by the falling off in quantity of the cod, but is largely due to the imperfect methods of taking them which still prevail. If we except a few enterprising men in the Maritime Provinces, the merchants, as a rule, are apathetic and show no desire to procure information respecting what other countries are doing, or to induce their fishermen to use improved fishing gear. Science is not called in to aid this im- portant industry in Canada, as it has been in the United States and in Europe. Above all, the vicious supply system, still more or less in force in the different provinces, by which advances in food and clothing are made to the fishermen at the commence- ment of each season, is destructive to the industrious efforts of men who are thus rarely out of debt. I certainly do not wish to insinuate that the condition of our fishermen is worse than that of fishermen elsewhere; for this "supply" system is necessary to the working of fishing in- dustries in every part of the world. But if we had in Canada a well-organized Fishery Bureau, unde
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