3058 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



and Herring mostly, at Gulf of St Lawrence Newfoundland. Bay of 

 Fundy and particularly P. E. 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 ? Mackerel, Herrings- Cod, Halibut, Pollock, 

 Haddock Hake and some other varieties 



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

 1S54 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 ? If so, to what extent, 

 and what is the value ? They do obtain bait, and I estimate the value 

 at two hundred thousand dollars $200,000 which is paid in Cash to 

 British fishermen. 



26. Do not the American fishermen purchase supplies in 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-vessels 

 of the United States in their neighborhood during the fishing season! 

 Explain why it is so, and estimate, if you can, the money-value of that 

 advantage. Money value of this trade 8500,000 Half Million They 

 do obtain supplies at all accessible British Ports. Say at all places in 

 Bay of Fuudy Halifax and other ports in Nova Scotia, Straits of Causo, 

 Sydney in Cape Breton Charlottetown and Georgetown and others in 

 P. E. Island Bay Chaleur and many other smaller places 



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

 sels yearly engage in the fisheries off the Atlantic Coast of the British 

 North American Provinces, (excluding Newfoundland,) both without 

 and within the three-mile limit ? If so, state how many vessels are so en- 

 gaged, 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 

 <tch taken within three miles of the British coast, and of the amount 

 taken outside of the three-mile limit ? I estimate the number of Vessels 

 so employed at Seven hundred, value at $3,000000 three millions Seven 

 thousand men. fish taken are Cod. Mackerel, Halibut, Hake Herrings 

 Haddock Pollock. &c &c 



Value of fish one and one half Million dollars and the amount taken 

 within three miles of land at fifty thousand dollars 



li.S. What percentage of value, if any, is, in your judgment, added to 

 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 

 consist? Not over five per cent., and that from occasionally catching 

 Mackerel, and a small amount derived from taking Herrings 



21). 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- 

 nually, in the aggregate? the value of drying Nets and making fish 

 are very small, and the right to land fish in transit we have always had, 

 or it has usually been done 



