Total Catch, 272,992 Seals;  Net Value, $493,845.78

With the discharge of the Lloydsen, Saturday, the sealing voyage for 1913 closed. All things
considered, the returns show a fairly profitable fishery, though one of the supplying firms,
A. Harvey & Co., fared poorly, their four ships only securing 42,957 seals. Bowring Bros., Ltd.,
for their fleet of six ships landed 103,960. Job Bros. & Co., Ltd., for four ships, landed
68,655, and Baine Johnstone & Co., 24,625, showing an increase over the 1912 voyage of 97,862.
The nett value of the catch is $493,845.78, an increase of $164,581.09 over 1912. Of this 
amount the crews, numbering 3,609 men, were paid $164,615.26 or an average of $45.61 per man.
The Captains' share amounted to $19,754, or an average of $1,040 each. The skinners earned
over $10,000 between then, and the labourers about $20,000. The gross weight of all the seals
landed amounts to 6,000 tons, 0 cwt, 3 ors., and 27 lbs, as gainst 4,193 tons, 9 cwt, and 12 lbs,
in 1912. The number of seals manufactured by the different firms are as follows: - Job Bros &
Co., Ltd., 124,773; Bowring Bros., Ltd., 103,960, and Murray & Crawford, Harbour Grace, 44,529.
The opening of the voyage was very discouraging. First the collision between the Beothic and 
Bonaventure on the morning of sailing, in the Narrows, which has resulted in a law suit; 
then the striking of the Lloydsen in Channel Harbour, and lastly the loss of the Labrador,
which came near ending in a tragedy. At the icefields, however, there was neither sickness
nor trouble, except about the Erik, when 50 of her crew "manussed" and the ship had to return to 
port with them. Two deaths, followed, through natural causes, out of the 3,609 humans who
formed the crews, a very small percentage. As said in the opening paragraph, the voyage
has been fairly profitable to both men and owners. A detailed account of the voyage appears
elsewhere.