1878 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



The increase, therefore, of the United States exportations of fish and 

 fish-oil aunuallj- to Canada has been $569,131, of which $179,030 con- 

 sisted of fresh fi^h, leaving $390,101 as the increase upon articles 

 previously subjected to duty. As against this gain to the United States 

 the British producers have gained an increased market in the United 

 States of only $340,589, as will be seen by the following figures to be 

 found in the same statement. 



During the seven years immediately preceding the Washington Treaty, 

 when duties icere payable, the United States imported the fish products 

 of Canada and Prince Edward Island as follows, viz: 



1867 1,108,779 



1868 1,103,859 



1869 1,208,805 



1870 1,129.665 



1871 1,087,341 



1872 933,041 



1873 1,393,389 



the annual average being $1,137,839. 



Since the treaty has been in full operation the annual average has in- 

 creased to $1,505,888, the imports having been as follows: 



1874 $1,612,295 



1875 1,637,712 



1876 1,455,629 



1877 1,317,917 



the increase in the annual average being $368,049, of which increase 

 $27,460 was due to fresh fish, leaving $340,589 as the increase upon arti- 

 cles previously subjected to duty. From these figures it is clear, then, 

 that as respects the advantages arising from an increased market the 

 United States and not Canada has been the greatest gainer. It may be 

 remarked, before leaving this part of the subject, that although the sta- 

 tistics put in by the Government of the United States, as to the total 

 imports into the United States from Canada, approximate very closely 

 to those put in by Her Majesty's Government in respect of the exports 

 from Canada to the United States, there is an important discrepancy 

 between the exports from the United States to Canada as put in evi- 

 dence in Table XIV of Appendix O, and the imports into Canada from 

 the United States as put in evidence by her Majesty's Government. 



This has already been referred to during the course of the evidence, 

 but the attention of the Commissioners is now again directed to the ex- 

 plicit admissions of Mr. Young, the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics at 

 Washington, in his reports of 1874, '75, and '76. With regard to this 

 subject, for example, he says, at page XV of his report for 1876 : "During 

 the year ended 30th June, 1876, the total value of domestic merchandise 

 and produce exported to Canada, and which was omitted in the returns 

 of the United States custom officers on the Canadian border, as appears 

 from the official statements furnished by the Commissioner of Customs 

 of the Dominion, amounted to $10,507,563, as against $15,596,524 in the 

 preceding year, and $11,424,566 in 1874." 



2. I beg now to call the attention of your excellency and your honors 

 to the fact that a considerable proportion of the products of the British- 

 American fisheries, exported to the United States for many years past, 

 has been re exported to other foreign countries, where they may be fairly 

 presumed to have entered into competition with the direct foreign exports 

 of Her Majesty's British-American subjects. 



This will clearly appear by a reference to statement No. 11, to be 

 found on page 437 of the British Evidence, which shows that the exports 

 of dried and smoked, pickled and other cured fish (exclusive of Cali- 



