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     In order to encourage sea fishing and the building of 
     
     fishing boats, the Dominion Government, by acts passed in 
     
     1882 and 1891, and by orders~in-council, provides for the 
     
     distribution of $160,000.00 annually among the fishermen 
     
     and vessels of Canada. This bounty is paid on the basis of 
     
     $1.00 per registered ton to vessels, up to $80.00; $7.15 each 
     
     to vessel fishermen ; $3.75 per man to boat fishermen ; and 
     
     $1.00 per boat to the owners. The total bounty paid in 
     
     Prince Edward Island in 1904 was $8,716.;5; the number 
     
     of claims paid was 994; the number of vessels receiving 
     
     bounty was 30, with a tonnage of 594; the number of vessel 
     
     fishermen receiving bounty was 126, and the amount paid to 
     
     the same was $1,494.90; the number of boats receiving 
     
     bounty was 964; the number of boat fishermen was 1,792, 
     
     and the amount paid to same was $7,684.45. 
     
    

    
     One of the greatest sources of profit is the lobster fishery. 
     
     This industry shows signs of deterioration from over-fishing; 
     
     but the strict enforcement of the regulations regarding the 
     
     close season, which is from the fifteenth of July until the 
     
     nineteenth of April, inclusive, etc., is having a good efiect. 
     
     A lobster hatchery is located near Charlottetown. 
     
    

    
     The mackerel fishery, once enormously productive, has, 
     
     since the introduction of purse seines and gill nets, declined. 
     
     The herring and cod fisheries are yet practically undeveloped 
     
     and offer a large field for investment and enterprise. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Canada’s Far-Famed Oyster Land—Prince Edward 
     
    
   
   
    
     Island is celebrated for the excellence and abundance of its. 
     
    
   
   
    
     oysters. They may be taken on almost any part of the 
     
     coast—the many estuaries, rivers and streams being admir- 
     
     ably adapted for the cultivation of the delicious bivalve ; but 
     
     the best beds are in Richmond, Cascumpec and Hillsborough 
     
     Bays, and in the rivers flowing into these waters. The first 
     
     named——Richmond Bay—«is the home of the most famous 
     
     oysters. Here is the largest and richest field in Canada, 
     
     from 15,000 to 16,000 acres in extent—a veritable El Dorado. 
     
    
   
   
    
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