2608 AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



I have now a statement of a vessel fitted for the George's Banks^for 

 cod-fishing, ready for sea. It is as follows : 



AT GLOUCESTER, MASS. 



Vessel fitted for George's Bank cod-fishing, ready for sea, summer trip. Tonnage 80 tons, 



with 1 1 hands, 5 weeks. 



Cost of ball $5.200 



Spars ' 400 



Rigging 550 



Sails 575 



Dory 14 



30 tons pebble ballast 50 



Platforms, ice-honses, and other fittings of hold 75 



Gnrry-pens and other deck-fittings 30 



230 fathoms 8 manila cable, weighing 3,304 pounds 450 



3 anchors, of 500 pounds each i 120 



6 dozen 16-pound lines, 3 dozen ganging lines 10 



Lanterns, horns, compasses, charts, buntiig, spy-glass, log, &c 100 



10 tons ice, for preserving bait and halibut 30 



40 barrels bait .. 40 



Wood and coal 10 



14 barrels water 3 



Provisions for 11 men, 5 weeks 175 



Total cost of vessel and outfits 7,862 



Q. I believe that in the last but one of the accounts you read from 

 the returns the small cod was put in. Is that now usually brought in I 

 A. Yes, it is saved and brought in. 



Q. It used in former times to be thrown over ! A. Well, I don't know 

 about that. 



Q. Now they are brought in and have a market value? A. Yes. 



Q. The liver and other parts are brought in and saved ? A. Yes. 



Q. Then the gurry-pen is the pen in which they throw the gurry ? 

 A. Yes. 



Q. That is kept and thrown overboard at the proper time and place I 

 A. Yes. 



Q. Have you any memorandum there to show the amount of the im- 

 portation into the United States from the Dominion fisheries in any one 

 year, so as to show what value the privilege is to the people of the Do- 

 minion? A. I have a memorandum of the importation last year. 



Q. That is obtained from the custom-house ? A. It is obtained from. 

 a book that I saw in the room. 



Mr. DA VIES, Let us have the book. 



Mr. DANA. You need not mind that until we get the book. Will you 

 take any other memorandum or table you have made? A. I have a 

 profit and loss account of George Steele's vessels in the Gulf of St. Law- 

 rence mackerel fisheries for seventeen years. It is made up from his 

 bay trip book, Gloucester. 



By Sir Alexander Gait : 



Q. Be kind enough to explain how you made it up ? A. I gave him 

 credit for the number of barrels of mackerel he got, the gross catch of 

 his vessels, and deducted from it the stock charges, making the net 

 stock, and divided that by two, which gave the vessel's share for the 

 whole period of seventeen years. Then I charged the outfits aiid ex- 

 penses. I charged him for the charter what I supposed. 



Q. Did you take this from his books ? A. No ; it is an estimated 

 profit and loss account, made up by me. 



Q. He is the owner of the ship f A. Yes. 



