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Title: Lands, fisheries and game, minerals
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Commission of Conservation
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources Agriculture Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: Ottawa, Mortimer Co.
Contributing Library: Mississauga - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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to the eastern oyster. Thethree provinces, however, that produce practically all our oysters are
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CANADIAN OYSTER INDUSTRY 129 Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Since 1871, whenstatistics are first available, the island province has produced nearly twiceas many oysters as New Brunswick, its closest competitor. Nova Scotiacomes third. The Atlantic oyster area may be said to be the half-moonshaped shores of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton and New Brunswick, bor-dering on the gulf of St. Lawrence, with Prince Edward Island as thestar within the nether tip of this crescent. Analysis of ^^ examination of the table indicating the productionStatistics of of oysters in all Canada** shows that the industry was at itsro uc ion zenith in the eighties and early nineties. The high pointwas reached in 1882 with a production of 64,646 bbls. During the wholeperiod from 1882 to 1893, the yearly production never fell below 50,000bbls. save in one year. The second stage in the decline is noted in theyears 1894-1901. During these years, the annual yield ranged between40,000 and 50,000 bbl

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