AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 186") 



Mr. FOSTER. I have taken the figures for every year since the Wash- 

 ington Treaty went into effect. 



Mr. THOMSON. Even allowing, as the United States affidavits affirm, 

 that the part of the gulf catch which is taken by them within the three- 

 mile limit only amounts to one-half, we have 40,000 barrels. To thin 

 quantity you have to add the quantity imported from Canada, which I* 

 nearly all taken inshore, amounting to 91,000 barrels, the total is l.'i 1,000 

 barrels, ajid consequently it appears from these figures that there were 

 taken from British territorial waters about 45 per rent, of the entire 

 consumption of the United States. .And if the proportion of the voy- 

 ages made in the gulf and taken within the three-mile limit be two- 

 thirds, then these figures are increased to 150,000, or to over 50 per 

 cent., and this is the result which follows from Mr. Foster's own figures. 



Mr. FOSTER. That is you add the catch of your own people to the 

 catch of our people, in the gulf, and say tbat is such a percentage of the 

 total amount that went into the United States market. I dare say it 

 may be so. 



Mr. THOMSON. So, as United States fishermen obtained in the gtilt 

 that year 80,000 barrels, and there were imported into their market from 

 the British Provinces about 91,000 barrels, that makes a total catch in 

 the Gulf of Saint Lawrence of 171,000 barrels; that is to saj', the catch 

 on the United States coast was 130,339 barrels, or 43 per cent., and the 

 catch in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence 171,000 barrels, or 57 per cent; this 

 makes a total of 301,339 barrels. Now these very figures themselves 

 are about the very best evidence that can be advanced as to the relative 

 value of these two fisheries. 



With reference to the value which the United States themselves put 

 on our fisheries, I want to cite some of their own figures; and the value 

 which the Americans themselves have set on these fisheries is very con- 

 clusively shown by admissions of their own public men. 



Sir ALEXANDER GALT. Before you take up that point, Mr. Thomson, 

 will you be kind enough to tell me what the proportion of the catch you 

 claim as taken inshore, bore to the whole American consumption. 50 

 per cent, you have made it, and I think it was 33 per cent. 



Mr. THOMSON. I say that if the proportion of the voyages, taken 

 inshore, within the three-mile limit be two thirds, there were taken in 

 British territorial waters about 50 per cent. 



Sir ALEXANDER GALT. Fifty per cent. 



Mr. THOMSON. Yes. I will read the proposition again: Now; alU 

 ing as the United States affidavits affirm, that one-halt' of the catch w 

 taken inshore, viz, 40,000 barrels,add importations from Canada, 01, 00 

 barrels, which makes 131,000 barrels; and therefore there have 1 

 taken in British territorial waters 45 per cent, of the entire ponsumptu 

 of the United States. That is what I said. 



Mr. FOSTER. That is assuming the whole of your catch to have I 

 taken inshore! 



Mr. THOMSON. Yes; and if the portion vouched for as 

 within the three-mile limit be two thirds, then these figures would 

 152,000, or over fifty per cent, of that consumption. 



Mr. FOSTER. I hope that the Commission will not charg< 

 privilege possessed by British fishermen of catching mackerel. 



Mr. DANA. Some of the British catch is taken eight mtU 



Mr. THOMSON. In order to show the value, as stated 

 themselves, of these fisheries, I will quote the language of 



