3024 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



herring, and for all No. 1 salmon, does iiot the United States afford the 

 only market. They do. Fat fish will not keep in warm countries. 



33. If you know what amount of duties is annually paid to the United 

 States oii tish and fish-oil imported from Canada, which are to be made 

 free under the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, please state 

 them annually, and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. 



34. Jf you know what amount of duties is annually paid in Canada on 

 tish and fish-oil imported from the United States, which are to be made 

 free under the provisions of the said Treaty, please state them annually, 

 and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. 



35. The object of these inquiries is to ascertain whether the rights 

 in respect of fishing, and fishermen, and tish, which were granted to 

 Great Britain by the Treaty of Washington, are or are not a just equiv- 

 alent for the rights in those respects which were granted by said Treaty 

 to the United States. If you know anything bearing upon this subject 

 which you have not already stated in reply to previous questions, please 

 state it as fully as if 1 you had been specially inquired of in respect of 

 it. I can only say that the universal opinion of those engaged in the 

 American fisheries both at sea and on shore is that the terms of the 

 treaty are decidedly against them, some have gone so far as to predict 

 the total ruin of our own fisheries when brought into competition 

 with the Dominion fisheries. For the last 25 or 30 years the Yan- 

 kee has been training the Colonist his business, actually learning 

 him his trade a large proportion of the fishermen of Nova Scotia are 

 better acquainted on our shore than on their own. they have among 

 them many capable men who have only to fit out their cheap vessels 

 cheaply and enter the lists against their trainers and if this is carried to 

 the extent that Yankee enterprise would carry it were the position re- 

 versed we may expect our business to decline and go into other hands, 

 so depressing an ettect has this view upon the fisheries of this town that 

 already this year we have sold 15 out of a fleet of 75 vessels and added 

 none. 



NOAH SWETT. 



Then personally appeared the above named Noah Swett and acknowl- 

 edge the foregoing answers to be the best of his belief correct 



EBENEZER T. ATWOOD 



Justice of the Peace 

 WELLFLEET June 17, 1873 



[CONFIDENTIAL.] 



QUESTIONS INSPECTING THE FISHERIES TO BE PRO- 

 POUNDED TO ON BEHALF OF THE UNITED 



STATES. 



1. What is your name and age, and in what town and State do you re- 

 side f Chas. C. Pettingill, Salem, Massachusetts 



2. What opportunities have you had for becoming acquainted with 

 the American and Canadian Atlantic sea fisheries, and the value of the 

 ratch of the different kinds of fish ? Have been in the Fishing for 2 j 

 years past, most of the time in Gloucester 



Can you <;ive the names of other persons in your neighborhood 

 h<> have also hail the opportunity of obtaining similar information .' If 

 so, ph-ase give some such name. Chas A Roper of Salem, Mass 



