Fish Resources 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     in food and having the requisite salinity and 
     
     temperature—the water becoming quite warm 
     
     in summer. The lobster fisheries are therefore 
     
     particularly productive in these two areas. In 
     
     the colder waters, such as those of Fundy bay 
     
     which are unfavourable for breeding, the lob- 
     
     sters are not so plentiful, but of large average 
     
     size and well suited for the growing trade in live 
     
     lobsters with the United States. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Herring and Sardines.—Although the her- 
     
     ring is found along the entire 2,000 miles of 
     
     the Atlantic coast of Canada, about one-third 
     
     of the total annual catch is actually taken from 
     
     a coastal strip only 35 miles long, the frontage 
     
     of Charlotte county, New Brunswick, in the bay 
     
     of Fundy. The fishery as at present developed 
     
     there is almost wholly for the small immature 
     
     fish from one to two years old, the so-called 
     
     sardine, which has long been taken in enormous 
     
     quantities without interruption and without 
     
     any apparent diminution of the supply. There 
     
     is no comparable herring fishery elsewhere. 
     
     Most of the sardines are canned and shipped all 
     
     over the world, particularly to Mexico, the 
     
     West Indies, Australia, British Guiana and 
     
     British South Africa. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The marketed value in 1928 of adult herring, 
     
     fresh, smoked, pickled and canned was $271,918 
     
     in Nova Scotia, $197,321 in New Brunswick, 
     
     and $29,032 in Prince Edward Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Smelts.—More than one-third of the total 
     
     catch of smelts in Canada during 1928 came 
     
     from the waters at the mouth of the Miramichi 
     
     in Northumberland county, New Brunswick, 
     
     which provide the foremost smelt fishery of the 
     
     world. The bulk of smelts taken there and 
     
     elsewhere in the Maritimes is sold frozen to 
     
     dealers in the United States. 
     
    
   
   
    
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