CANADA’S FISHERIES EXPORTS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 31 March 1936, Page 2

CANADA’S FISHERIES EXPORTS

BIG GAIN IN 1935 A large gain was recorded in the export trade in Canadian fisheries in the year 1935. Shipments to British Empire and foreign markets reached a total of 24,800,000 dollars which represented a gain of 2,300,000 dollars on the previous year (advises Reuter’s Canadian News Service). The following are the salient features of the export trade during the first eleven months of the year:— Sales to the United Kingdom totalled 6,447,300 dollars, a gain of 1,117,000 dollars on the same months of 1934. Sales to the United States were valued at 9,270,000, an increase of 790,700. Exports of canned fish and shellfish amounted to 9,890,000 dollars, an increase of 1,601,900 dollars. Canned salmon exports totalled 6,921,000 dollars, a gain of 1,711,500 dollars. Practically all Canada’s canned salmon are caught and prepared in British Columbia. Sales of canned salmon to the United Kingdom amounted to over 3,995,000 dollars, a substantial gain. Exports of canned salmon to Australia amounted to 1,687,500 dollars, an increase of 575,000 dollars.

Considerable quantities of Canadian fish are also exported to the Far East. While most of Canada’s trade in frozen and fresh fish is with the United States a large gain on exports to the United Kingdom was noted in 1935. Amongst the sixty and more different kinds of food fish and shellfish produced from Canada’s fisheries, there are a iound_dozen which, in normal times, add more than a million dollars to the Dominion’s annual production. The “Big Twelve” are: Salmon, lobsters, cod, herring, whitefish, halibut, haddock, sardines, pickerel, trout, smelts, pilchards.