3062 AWARD OF THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



inces, as the case may be, to take such bait within three miles of the 

 shore! Menhaden, which are taken for bait for their Oil and the refuse 

 made into Guano worth GO Dollars per Ton, The gross receipts from 

 this fishery for all purposes would not be less than four million dollars ; 

 it is entirely an American fishery. 



L'O. Please state as to each class of fisheries carried on from your 

 State or district, the cost of fitting out, equipping, furnishing, and 

 manning a vessel for carrying it on, estimating it by the average 

 length of the cruise. State, as far as possible, in detail the elements 

 which go to make up the cost of taking and delivering a full cargo and 

 of returning to the home port. The average cost for a season's work of 

 eight months is about 3000 Dollars or 3,500, as including salt, Bait Pro- 

 visions, Trawls, lines. Gear & Boats insurance wear and tear. 



Time of 12 men 8 months $3840,00 



The average value of the entire fares from 5 to 8000 dollars 7340 



This is when no losses are made. 



Out of, a fleet of less than 500 Schooners at Gloucester the 

 average loss has been for the last ten years over 10 ves- 

 sels yearly and 100 lives yearly The vessels and fares 

 are an entire loss as they are insured in the Mutual fish- 

 ing office and all owners of vessels share in the loss 



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 tbe Canadian and the cost of the American vessel in 

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

 American vessels cost 80 Dollars per ton present Gov't Measurement, the 

 Canadian vessels cost from 30 to 35 Dollars per ton The difference in 

 fitting is in the price of Gear Boats &c and tbe Canadian Fishermen are 

 fed on Fish and potatoes principally while the Americans have fresh 

 meat, salt meat Pork Vegetables in fact as good as the markets afford 



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 ? With all the fisheries on those coasts 



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 principally, some Codfish and Hali- 

 but 



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

 1851 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. The Mackerel fishery 

 within three miles of the British coast would probably average under 

 the most favorable circumstances 15 to 20,000 Bbls of Mackerel annual- 

 ly, worth 100000 Dollars net From this amount should be deducted the 

 cost of catching (say 250 vessels, 6 weeks, together with time of men 

 employed Bait salt &c, in fact the fish are worthless in the water. The 

 Gulf of St Lawrence Mackerel fishery probably produces 100000 Bbls 

 of Mackerel less than one fifth are caught within three miles of the shore. 

 Ihe Statistics of Mass fisheries shows that when totally excluded from 



