CANADA’S NATIONAL INCOME

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25091, 24 January 1947, Page 8

CANADA’S NATIONAL INCOME

FISHERIES ONE OF BIG RESOURCES As a source of national income, fisheries rate as one of Canada’s greatest resources, states the New York “HeraldTribune.” Total production last year aggregated 1,250.000,000 pounds, valued at more than 100,000,000 dollars. Normally 75 per cent, of the catch of the Canadian fishihg industry goes intifii export, with the United States the largest customer. The future of the export trade depends largely on the trade pacts now being made among the various nations. Bel :ore the War Canadian fish was exported to nearly all nations. During the . war the demar d grew to unprecedented proportions The output of canned her- . ring, for example, totalled from 25,000 to 50,000 cases before the war. but the war demand brought production up to 1.300.000 cases annually. This product, is used mainly for relief purposes ip the export field to-day and Canadians are'-’ wondering what will happen to this thrlv-j tn? war business. are many examples of the bene- * ficial results of international co-opera- ‘ tlon in the fishihg field. Through in- ' ternational agreement fur seal herds on the west coast have been built up from 150,000 to 3.000,000. Stocks of halibut In the North Pacific likewise have been more than doubled. Halibut fishing formerly wsa uncontrolled and was dangerously near extinction about 1930. The sockeye salmon treaty In 1937 probably saved Canada's greatest single fishing product. The output of salmon tttis year in British Columbia is estimated at 1,340,000 cases, down 400,000 cases from 1945.