AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



2597 



By Mr. Dana : 



Q. And the most so of any ? A. Yes ; that is a well known fact. The 

 statement continues: 



Average share to crews, average 9.5 men, $38.1*2 per month. 



The average time employed in the American shore mackerel fishery was 2 months 

 20 days each year for 9 years. The average catch per year for 2.3 vessels was 239 

 barrels of mackerel ; the average price which was in years of low prices was $7.10 per 

 barrel, exclusive of barrel and packing. Average share to vessels per mouth, $310.60. 

 Crew's average share. $20.70 each per mouth. 



The average time the vessels were employed in all the fisheries was 9 mouths 14 days 

 by 9.1 vessels yearly for 19 years, for which time the average share for each vessel was 

 (3,228.08, or $340.92 per month. The crew's shares, average share for each man, was 

 f 264.3S, or $27.83 per mouth to 12.25 men, the average crew for each vessel. 



Q. The cod fishery seemed in one respect to be superior to and more 

 profitable than the mackerel fishery, and in another less so. The men's 

 shares were more in the cod than they were in the mackerel fishery ? 

 A. The former is attended with a good deal less expeuse and requires 

 fewer men. 



Q. In the mackerel fishery a larger proportion -of barrels is re- 

 quired ? A. The proceeds of mackerel-fishing are to be divided among 

 15 men, while in the cod fishery these are to be shared amongst some 9 

 men. 



Q. Will you select some one vessel from Steele's trip book und show 

 in detail how it is kept? A. I have here the method of making up a 

 voyage of a Grand Banker using fresh bait and a Grand Banker using 

 salt bait. The statement for the former is as follows : 



Schooner Pharsalia. 



Sailed for Grand Bank May 29, 1875, arrived at Gloucester September 6, 1875. Time 

 absent, 3 months 8 days. 



84,685 Ibs. larpe cod, at 2f cents $2,222 98 



2,205 Ibs. small cod, at 1-fV cents 28 94 



13,510 Ibs. damaged cod, at 1 cent 135 10 



6,100 Ibs. fletches (halibut), at 4 cents 244 00 



195 galls, o'il, at 45 cents 87 75 



Number galls, blubber, atO 00 



2,718 17 (Gross stock.) 

 Less stock charges 301 42 (Stock charges.) 



2)2,417 35 (Net stock.) 



1, 208 67 



Exd. 

 (Examined by owner of vessel.) 



