AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



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firm from 1863 to the present time; is this a copy of that statement? 

 A. Yes ; it is as follows : 



Number of barrels of shore mackerel packed from 1863 to 1876 19,387 



Number of barrels of bay mackerel packed from 1868 to 1876 10, 995 



Value of shore mackerel , $176,998 00 



Value of bay mackerel 111,699 00 



The following table contains a statement of the trips I made in the 

 bay from 1848 to 1SG4, inclusive: 



Sharesrnan from 1848 to 1851 ; captain from 1852 to 1864. 

 Thirteen years captain, 6,018 barrels. Average per year, 469. 



WEDNESDAY, October 10, 1877. 



The Conference met. 



The examination of SYLVANUS SMITH was resumed. 

 By Mr. Foster: 



Question. Will you state where you caught your mackerel from year 

 to year while you were in the E. C. Smith ! Answer. In 1830 we made two 

 trips ; the first was caught on Bank Orphan, with the exception of about 

 50 barrels, as near as I can judge, which were taken in the Bay of 

 Chaleurs, and the second trip was caught at the Magdalen Islands. 



Q. Whereabouts did you catch the fish in the Bay of Chaleurs? A. 

 Up off Paspebiac, I think, or along there. We were up jn that section, 

 of the bay. 



Q. How near the shore were you ? A. We weiv, in the middle of the 

 Bay of Chaleurs; it would be hard to judge the distance, but we were 

 some 4 or 5 miles off shore. 



