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Fisheries Branch DOMINION OF CANADA SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FISHERIES BRANCH Department of Marine and Fisheries FOR THE YEAR 1929-30 OTTAWA F. A. ACLAND PRINTER TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY 1930 To His Excellency the Right Honourable Viscount W'illingdon, G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.B.E., Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Dominion of Canada. MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY: I have the honour to submit herewith, for the information of Your _Excellency and the Parliament of Canada, the Sixty-third Annual Report of the Fisheries Branch of the former Department of Marine and Fisheries. I have the honour to be, Your Excellency's most obedient servant, EDGAR N. RHODES, Minister of Fisheries. DEPARTMENT OF FISHERIES, OTTAWA, August 30, 1930. 15772-1i 3 CONTENTS Deputy Minister's Report, covering— PAGE Review of the Fisheries for the calendar year 1929 5 Foreign Trade in Fisheries Products 16 Operation of the Fish Inspection Act 17 Inspection of Canneries and Canned Fish 18 Work of the Marine Biological Board 19 Fish Culture 21 Fish Collection Services 27 Fisheries Intelligence Service 28 • Scallop Investigations 29 . Oyster Investigations in Prince Edward Island 29 Organization of Fishermen 30. Meetings of Fisheries Officers 31 Fishing Bounty 31 Pacific Coast Salmon Tagging 33 The North American Committee on Fishery Investigations 34 The International Fisheries Commission - 35 The International Pacific Salmon Federation 36 The Pelagic Sealing Treaty 37 APPENDICES 1. Reports of Supervisors of Fisheries 38 2. Report of the Biological Board of Canada 132 3. Report of the Director of Fish Culture 167 4. Report of the Fisheries Engineer 243 5. Report on Scallop Investigation£ in 1929 250 6. Report on Oyster Investigations 255 7. Statement of Revenue and Expenditure, 1929-30 257 8. Statement of Revenue and Expenditure, 1867-1929 270 9. Entries of United States Fishing Vessels (Atlantic) 282 10. Entries of United States Fishing Vessels (Pacific) 284 11. Summary of Licences issued 288 12. Return of Prosecutions 291 Graphs showing Production of Principal Fishes, 1912-1929, appear after Appendix No. 12 4 DEPUTY MINISTER'S REPORT To the Hon. E. N. RHODES, Minister of Fisheries. have the honour to submit the Sixty-third Annual Report of the Fisheries Branch of the former Department of Marine and Fisheries, which is for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1930, and deals with the following subjects:— Fisheries Operations in the Calendar Year 1929. Foreign.Trade in Fisheries Products. O• eration of the Fish Inspection Act. Inspection of Canneries and Canned Fish. Work of the Marine Biological Board. Fish Culture. Fish Collection Services. Fisheries Intelligence Service. Scallop Investigations. Oyster Investigations in Prince Edward Island. • Organization of Fishermen. Meetings of Fisheries Officers. Fishing Bounty. Pacific Coast Salmon Tagging. Work of the North American Committee on Fishery Investigations. Work of the International Fisheries Commission, or Pacific Halibut Commission. The International Pacific Salmon Federation. The Pelagic Sealing Treaty. The appendices to the report include:— Reports of the Supervisors of Fisheries. The Report of the Biological Board of Canada. The Report of the Fish Culture Division. The Report of the Fisheries Engineer. Reports on Scallop Investigations. The Report on Oyster Investigations. A Staternent of Fisheries Expenditure and Revenue for 1929, and a Statement of Fisheries Expenditure and Revenue, by provinces, for the period 1867-1929. A Summary of Licences Issued in 1929. A Return Showing Prosecutions for Offences against the Fisheries Act. A Statement Showing the Entries of United States Fishing Vessels on the Atlantic Coast and on the Pacific Coast. There is also included a series of graphs showing the production of various principal fishes, by years, in the period from 1912 to 1929, inclusive. REVIEW OF THE FISHERIES OF 1929 During the calendar year 1929 there were larger catches of fish both on the Atlantic coast and in the Inland Fisheries but Pacific coast landings decreased by more than 80,000,000 pounds and as much of this decrease was in the salmon fishery the net result of the year's fisheries operations in the Dominion as a whole was that the marketed value of the production was about 81,500,000 less than in 1928, or $53,518,521 as compared with $55,050,973. 5 6 MARINE AND FISHERIES Making comparison with 1927, however, there was an increase in 1929 of almost $4,395,000 in marketed value, and it is also to be noted that the total for the year was more than $2,900,000 above the average annual value in the preceding five-year period, 1924-1928. While the net decrease in total catch for the year was more than 63,000,000 pounds as compared with the catch for 1928, the average price per hundredweight received by the fishermen for their fish as landed was slightly better in 1929=than in the preceding year, taking the fisheries as a whole and the landed value figures showed a decrease of only $48,960, or $33,699,543,' as compared with $33,748,503. The sea fisheries production for the year amounted in marketed value to $44,928,742, as against $46,669,222 in 1928, but in the Inland Fisheries produc- tion, which totalled $8,589,779, there was an increase of $208,028. In New Brunswick, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Alberta the marketed values showed gains but in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, and the Yukon Territory there were decreases. Notwithstanding the decrease in its production, British Columbia continued well in the lead among the provinces in point of marketed value. Forty-five per cent of the production value for the Dominion for the year is to be credited to British Columbia, thirty-five per cent to the Maritime Provinces, eight per cent to the Prairie Provinces and the Yukon Territory combined, seven per cent to Ontario, and five per cent to Quebec. On the Atlantic coast the total catch for the year was 536,193,900 pounds as compared with only 521,571,400 pounds in 1928. In Quebec alone among the four provinces of the coast was there a decrease in landings. In the Inland Fish- eries the landings were 87,772,600 pounds, or about 2,000,000 pounds more than in 1928. On the other hand, the Pacific coast catch was .only 526,127,400 pounds, as against 606,610,000 pounds in the preceding year. Capital Investment.—The figures as to the amount of capital in use in the fishing industry in 1929 bear out the statement which was made in last year's report that " while there was some increase in the capital investment in the industry in 1928, the indications are that there will be a further increase in the ensuing years." During 1929 the total investment increased by more than $4,000,000 and reached the sum of $62,336,057. The greater part of the increase, or $2,710,914, was in the capital invested in vessels and boats and gear used in the primary operations of catching and landing fish, and the total amount so invested reached $33,842,002. The investment in fish canning and curing estab- lishments was increased by $1,552,772, notwithstanding that there was some decrease in the number of lobster and salmon canneries and in the number of reduction plants. The growth in capital investment in the industry in ncent years has been very striking. In 1910 the investment was slightly more than $19,000,000. By 1914 it had become nearly $25,000,000. During the war years, of course, there was some temporary employment of capital which swelled the figures abnormally, and for several years after the war's end there was a measure of recession. By 1922, however, conditions were returning to normal. In that year the invest- ment in the industry was $47,765,000, in round figures. In 1924 there was a sharp decrease but this change was followed in the next year by a renewed upward movement. This movement is apparently now continuing, and there is reasonable prospect of a further increase in investment during 1930, as is shown by the fact that on parts of the Atlantic coast, for instance the activity in boat construction which was evident in the winter of 1928-29li as' again been mani- fest during the present winter. Personnel.—The year saw an increase of 2,154 in the number of persons directly employed in the fishing industry, and, all told, 80,373 were so engaged, as compared with 78,219 in the earlier year. Reckoning on the basis of an average of five dependents to each person employed in the industry, it will be FISHERIES BRANCH 7 seen that the fisheries are a source of livelihood or maintenance for a number of people almost equal to the estimated population of the province of New Bruns- wick. Of the total personnel engaged in the industry last year 64,083 were men in primary operations, as compared with 62,785 in 1928, and 16,290 were persons employed in fish canning and curing establishments, an increase of more than 800 over the figures for the previous year. Foreign Trade.—Export trade in fish and fish products in 1929 was not quite as large as in 1928—$37,546,393, as compared with $38,096,245—but it exceeded import trade by $33,312,487. The value of fisheries imports was greater by some $165,000 than it had been in 1928. Canadian fish and fish products continue to find sale in virtually all parts of the world but the major business is done with the United States in fresh and frozen fish.
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