3042 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



descriptions which are annually shipped to the United States? Refer 

 to statistics. 



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. Yes, it is the only market 



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

 United 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. Refer 

 to Statistics in possession of the government. 



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 provisions of the said Treaty, please state them 

 annually, and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. I do not know of 

 any fish or fish oil being shipped to Canada. 



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. 

 I consider the Treaty of more value to the British Provinces than to 

 the United States for the following reasons; First for the priviledge of 

 fishing on the coast of the United States. Second. the marketing and 

 shipping their fish free. Third the furnishing our fishing vessels with 

 supplies. 



ELISHA CEOWELL 

 STATE OF NEW YORK ) 



ITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK j 



Elisha Crowell, merchant of the City of New York, being duly sworn, 

 deposes and says, that the answers made by him to the several inter- 

 rogatories as above, have been duly considered by him, and that the 

 same are based on his knowledge and experience of the fisheries, and 

 that the subject matter therein contained is true to his best knowledge 

 and belief so far as the same can be ascertained. 



ELISHA CROWELL 



Sworn before me This 18 day of June 1873 



A. M. SARES (Seal.) 

 Notary Public. 



No. 19. 

 [CONFIDENTIAL.] 



QUESTIONS RESPECTING 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 

 reside ! Caleb Nickerson, 48 years, Brooklyn, New York, 



2. What opportunities have you had for becoming acquainted with 

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

 catch of the diflerent kinds of fish ! Twenty years experience in catch- 

 ing, buying and selling fish. 



3. Can you give the names of other persons in your neighborhood 



