2616 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



FRIDAY, October 12, 1877. 



The Conference met. 



Examination of Major Low resumed. 

 By Mr. Dana : 



Question. Yesterday there was presented, but not explained at the 

 time, a history of 27 vessels; did you prepare this? Answer. Yes; I 

 did. 



Q. This gives a history, does it, of a series of vessels twenty-odd 

 vessels in a tabulated form. The first name is the Austerlitz, touuage 

 so much, number of hands so many ; " fishing," 1 believe, means cod- 

 fishing ? A. Yes ; cod and halibut. 



Q. The average hands fishing, 8 ; mackereling, 14. This gives the 

 history down to 1868, when she was sold ? The statement also shows 

 what became of each vessel, whether sold or lost. The first column 

 gives the time engaged in cod and halibut fishing, the number of months 

 and days each year, the time engaged in mackerel fishing each year, the 

 gross value of the catch each year, the vessel's share and the crew's 

 share each year. The quantity of fish caught is put down in quintals 

 or barrels, according as it is mackerel or cod. 



WITNESS. Might I be allowed to make an explanation regarding that ? 

 When I presented it yesterday, 1 intended to present it before the sum- 

 mary. The summary I presented in my evidence was a summary of 

 those abstracts. 



Q. In the cost of a new schooner you gave yesterday, you had one 

 item, " expense account." Have you the broadside that was printed 

 for the use of the Centennial ! A. I can get it. 



(The paper is produced, and explanation made that it cannot be put 

 into the case, as it was taken out of a frame, having been used at the 

 Ceutennal Exhibition, and brought here. It is a statement of the cost 

 of a new schooner, built in 1875, fitted for the mackerel-fishing, ready 

 for sea, 67 tons.) 



Q. This printed sheet was used at the Centennial? A. Yes; it was 

 one of those framed and put around the tauk in which we showed the 

 models of fishing schooners. 



Q. Are these the same vessels you gave in that paper f A. Yes ; I 

 made a slight alteration for the mackerel-catcher. That was made to 

 show the cost of a schooner to fish off our own shores, and I made a 

 slight alteration to adapt it to the ftshiug in the gulf. 



Q. Yes; and then you afterwards gave the difference between the 

 gulf-fishing vessels and a seiner on our own shores f A. Yes. 



Q. I see you put the cost of fuel, light, and provisions at 40 cents a day. 

 There has been some question whether that was not a large sum. A. 

 It is based on an actual voyage. I have with me the original documents. 

 I asked different owners of vessels who had new schooners in the differ- 

 ent classes of fishing to furnish me with the cost of their schooners and 

 8uch other information as they saw fit in relation to their schooners,. 

 One of them gave me full details of the cost of running a schooner for 

 the whole season. I have the original papers that he handed me. 



Q. 1 suppose you would not like to part with them ? A. I should not 

 like to, but, if required, I could put them in. 



Q. Now take the items that make this 40 cents per day per man. A. 

 Well, this vessel was engaged on the Grand Bank 302 days in the fresh- 



