3034 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



to make up the cost of taking ami delivering a full cargo aud of return- 

 ing to the home port. 



21. When you have fully answered question 20, please answer the 

 same questions as to vessels fitted out, equipped, furnished, and manned 

 from the Dominion of Canada, including Prince Edward Island, so far 

 as you are able to do so. If you state that there is any difference be- 

 tween the cost of the Canadian and the cost of the American vessel in 

 those respects, explain what the difference is and the reason for it. 



22. Are you acquainted, and for how long, and in what capacity, 

 with the fisheries on the coasts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, 

 or Prince Edward Island, or with either, and if either, with which of 

 these fisheries ! I am acquainted with the fisheries of Nova Scotia and 

 Prince Edwards' Island. 



23. What kind of fish frequent the waters of those coasts which are 

 to be thrown open to American fishermen under the provisions of the 

 Treaty of Washington ? Cod aud Mackerel. 



24. Please state in detail the amount and the annual value (say from 

 1854 to 1872 inclusive) of the fisheries which are so to be thrown open 

 to American fishermen ; also the amount and the annual value of the 

 catch in the adjacent waters which are more than three miles distant 

 from the shore ; please state these facts in detail. 



25. Do American fishermen procure bait in the waters within three 

 miles of the coast of the Dominion of Canada f If so, to what extent, 

 aud what is the value ? They do not. 



26. Do not the American fishermen purchase supplies iu the ports of 

 the Dominion of Canada, including bait, ice, salt, barrels, provisions, 

 and various articles for the use of the men engaged in the fisheries ? 

 If so, in what ports, and to what extent? And, if that is the case, is it 

 not an advantage to the ports of the Dominion to have the fishing ves- 

 sels of the United States in their neighborhood duriug the fisking 

 season ? Explain why it is so, aud estimate, if you can, the money-value 

 of that advantage. 



27. Have you any knowledge of how many United States fishing- 

 vessels yearly engage in the fisheries off the Atlantic coasts of the 

 British North American Provinces, (excluding Newfoundland,) both 

 without and within the three mile limit ? If so, state how many vessels 

 are so engaged, what is the value of their tonnage, what is the number 

 of men employed annually on such vessels, what sorts of fish are taken 

 there, what is the annual value of all the fish so caught, and what is 

 the proportion, or probable proportion, in your judgment, of the amount 

 of such catch taken within three miles of the British coast, and of the 

 amount taken outside of the three-mile limit? 



28. What percentage of value, if any, is, iu your judgment, added to 

 the profits of a voyage by the privilege to fish within three marine miles 

 of the coast ; whence is such profit derived ; aud in what does it con- 

 Very little or none 



29. Do the American fishermen gain under the Treaty of Washing- 

 ton any valuable rights of lauding to dry nets and cure fish, or to re- 

 pack them, or to transship cargoes, which were not theirs before; if so, 

 what are those rights, and what do you estimate them to be worth an- 



.lly, in the aggregate? They do not gain anything, as they do not 

 in these days cure fish or repack, but return home as soon as they get 

 their fares 



30. Is not the Treaty of Washington, so far as the fishing clauses are 

 coi erned, more, or quite as, beneficial to the people of the British 



n American Provinces as to the people of the United States T I 



