As An Example, The
Boats Employed By The United States In The Mackerel Fishery In 1852
Were 250, The Tonnage
18,150 tons, and the value 750,000 dollars, while
the catch of fish was 850,000 dollars; while in
1864 it showed 600
vessels, 54,000 tons, 9,000 men, and a catch worth 4,567,500 dollars.
"Upon the general question, Mr. Derby says in his report: -
"'If the Maritime Provinces would join us spontaneously to-day - sterile
as they may be in the soil under a sky of steel - still with their hardy
population, their harbours, fisheries, and seamen, they would greatly
strengthen and improve our position, and aid us in our struggle for
equality upon the ocean. If we would succeed upon the deep, we must
either maintain our fisheries, or absorb the Provinces.'
"'No negociations' and 'no papers' - say our Government. This may be
true. Or it may be true that the Foreign Office have had papers, and
the Colonial not. Or that the Board of Trade have had papers, and the
Foreign and Colonial people have not; but, however that may be, Canada
has made, in good time, very serious representations. It is believed
that her Government had long before made personal appeals to both the
Colonial and the Foreign Offices, but the following document (19th
February, 1865), will speak for itself; and the Government at home
cannot deny that they had it, but which of the three departments will
admit its receipt is yet to be seen; always let it be remembered that
in May, 1865, there were 'no papers:' -
"'Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honorable the Executive
Council, approved by his Excellency the Governor-General on the
19th February, 1865.
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