3038 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



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

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

 ish > T orfh American Provinces, (excluding Newfoundland,) both without 

 and within the tbree-tnile 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 pro- 

 portion, 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, in your judgment, added to 

 the profits of a voyage by the privilege to fi.sh within three marine miles 

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

 sist? 



29. Do the American fishermen gain under the Treaty of Washington 

 any valuable rights of lauding to dry nets and cure fish, or to repack 

 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 annually, 

 in the aggregate ? Do not consider it is any advantage to American 

 fishermen, to dry nets or cure fish in any way, as by so doing, they in- 

 jure themselves by the detention "of getting their cargoes to market. 



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

 concerned, more, or quite as, beneficial to the people of the British North 

 American Provinces as to the people of the United States ? More ben- 

 eficial to the people of the Provinces than to the people of the United 

 States. 



31. What is the amount and value of colonial cargoes of fish of all 

 descriptions which are annually shipped to the United States? 



32. For all No. 1 and No. 2 mackerel, for the larger part of the fat 

 herring, and for all No. 1 salmon, does not the United States afford the 

 only market. It does. 



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

 ted States on fish 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. If you know what amount of duties is annually paid in Canada 

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

 made free under the pro\*isions of the said treaty, please state them an- 

 nually, 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 fish, which were granted to Great 

 Britain by the Treaty of Washington, are or are not a just equivalent 

 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 you had been specially inquired of in respect of it. 



CHARLES. E. SM ALLEY 

 REUBEN C KENNEY 

 NANTUCKET, ss. June 9th, 1873. 



Then personally appeared the above named Charles E. Smalley, and 

 Reuben C. Kenuey and made oath to the truth of the statements above 

 signed by thorn before me 



T. C. DEFRIEZ. 

 Collector of Customs. 



