3050 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



and Herring. Annual value of fish caught, one and three-quarter rail- 

 lion dollars. Value of fish taken inside of three miles about sixty thou- 

 sand dollars. 



28. What percentage of value, if any, is, in 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; and in what does it con- 

 sist ? I do not regard it of any value as far as profit is concerned. The 

 only benefit to be derived is freedom of Ports and free from annoyance. 



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 ? The value of the above privileg's I regard as of very 

 little importance. 



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 ? Far 

 more beneficial to British subjects. 



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

 descriptions which are annually shipped to the United States ? I do 

 not know the amount. 



32. For all Xo. 1 and Xo. 2 mackerel, for the greater part of the fat 

 herring, and lor all Xo. 1 salmon does not the United States afford the 

 only market. It does nearly all. 



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. I do not 

 know the amount, but would refer to statistics 



34. It 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. 



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. My 

 opinion is that England will derive more benefit from the treaty of 

 Washington than the United States, and it is the opinion of nearly all 

 who are engaged in the fishing business, that we have already granted 

 more privileges to the subjects of Great Britain under the treaty than we 

 shall receive. The admission of British fish into our markets free of 

 duty is a serious blow to the fishing interests of the United States. Our 

 fishermen can supply our markets from the catch on our own coast and 

 the deep sea fisheries. Since the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty I 

 have kept about one half of my vessels employed off our coast, and in every 

 instance they have lauded more fish and stocked more money than those 

 that have been employed in the Bay of St Lawrence. When the Dominion. 

 Government authorized a system of licensing American fishermen for 

 which they charged fifty cents per ton for the privilege of fishing within 

 the three-mile limit, freedom of their ports &c. Our Captains during 

 the first year took licenses (part of them) and the benefit they derived 

 from it they did not consider equal to the amount paid, and the next 



