AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 2649 



MONDAY, October 15, 1877. 



The Conference met. 



The cross-examiuatioii of Major Low was resumed. 

 By Mr. Davies : 



(Question. I notice that in your examination on Friday, you said that 

 the comparison with reference to Steele's vessels might not be a fail- 

 one with respect to the bay and shore fisheries, because they had been 

 engaged in fishing a longer time in the Bay of St. Lawrence than on 

 the American shore, and I want you to take the statement printed o* 

 page 359 and make the comparisons for corresponding periods which I 

 will indicate. In the first place, if you take the total number of vessels 

 which were fishing in the Bay of St. Lawrence, ho\v many would there 

 be? A. 107. 



Q. Can you tell me, from that statement, what is the average time 

 each vessel was occupied in fishing ? Divide the total number of vessels 

 into the time so occupied, and give the result. A. It is 4 mouths and 

 13 days. 



Q. Have you it already made up ? A. Yes ; it is contained in my 

 explanation of the summary I tiled. 



Q. How did you make it up ? A. I divided the time by the number 

 of vessels. 



Q. Try it again, and state the result. A. It is 4f\fj mouths, or 4 

 months- and 13 days. 



Q. Did you embrace the 75 days employed in the fitting out ? A. 

 Yes. 



Q. Take it without this period and see what you make it, giving the 

 actual time consumed from the time when they left Gloucester until 

 they returned; I make it 3^ mouths. A. Yes ; that is it. 



Q. Now, take the number of vessels engaged in the American coast 

 fishery and treat them in the same way, omitting the time employed in 

 fitting out ? A. It is 2 T 6 ff months; I call the total period 59 months. 



Q. All of these vessels were inackereling ? A. One vessel was one 

 day there. 



Q. Having the average time which each vessel was so employed, I 

 want you to take the ca-ch which each vessel made, and the receipts 

 obtained for those mackerel as you have them here; for instance, what 

 t was the total gulf catch '? A. 33,645 barrels. 



Q. What did these 33,645 barrels of mackerel bring ? A. $12 a 

 barrel. 



.Q. And how much would that be in bulk ? A. 8403,832.86. 



Q. How much did each vessel make per month 1 A. 8372,343. 



Q.No ; I want to see how much was made per month. A. it is all 

 liiiM'ed up hero in the cvplanati >!' the summary on page '!''><>. 



Q. You make it 8372.66 for each vessel ; then will you do the same 

 sum for the period during the Reciprocity Treaty ' A. That is done,, 

 too, from 1858 to 1865 on page 360. 



Q. But that does not show what each vessel made per month. You 

 have given what the vessels made per month for the whole period of 

 time, and I want to see what it was during the Reciprocity Treaty. 

 Take the gross catch, value it, and divide by the length of time they 

 were in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A. From 1858 to 1865, 1 make up- 

 the number as 60 vessels, and the value of the gross catch, 8225,1' I '.. 



Q. That leaves 83,754 for each vessel? A. It is $401 13. 



Q. You have misunderstood me. I want to find out for the period 



