AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3065 



home consumption, and the fishermen of the U States ran .supply the 

 entire demand of our own markets from our own Hhores and the dew 

 sea fisheries without being indebted to them fur a single fish, .*>oo ljuii 

 Dollars yearly will not pay for the advantages they gain by the Treaty 

 of Washington. 



HARVEY KNOWLTON 



EDWARD, A, 110KTUN 



STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS \ 



COUNTY OF ESSEX j ss> 



GLOUCESTER June 2 1st 1873. Then personally appeared the above 

 named Harvey Knowltou and Edward A. Horton, ami made oatli that 

 the statements herein made including answer to Question 35. are true 

 to the best of their knowledge and belief 

 Before me 

 (Seal.) DAVID W. LOW 



Notary Public 

 No. 24. 



[CONFIDENTIAL.] 



QUESTIONS EESPECTING THE FISHERIES TO BK I'HO. 



POUNDED TO ON BEHALF OF THE LNITKIl 



STATES. 



1. What is your name and age, and in what town and State do you 

 reside ? Albion K. Peirce 



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 different kinds of fish ? I have been to the Bay of St law- 

 reuce Thirty years and also off our own coasts 



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

 who have also had the opportunity of obtaining similar intormutiou ! 

 If so, please give some such name. 



4. A copy of the Treaty between Great Britain and the Tinted States, 

 known as the Treaty of Washington, is hereto annexed. Will you ex- 

 amine articles 18 to 22 inclusive, and state that you have done sot 

 Yes 



5. What kinds of fish frequent the waters of your State, ee|>eciall.r 

 those which are to be thrown open to the Canadian fishermen undrr 

 provisions of the Treaty of Washington ! Menhaden and Mackerel 

 should be understood that in taking mackerel with the hook when we 

 get a school alongside biting well we may get our whole tare from t! 

 school but if we were 5 miles from shore and the Cutters break-- 

 fishing we may not find a school ready to bite well again for a n 

 Mackerel are not like any other fish, one weeks steady catchin 



make a seasons work for us and if the mackerel should happen 

 offshore and bite well the inshore fishing would be uaelen t 

 the fleet should get up a biting schooll say just 3 miles 

 the annoyance and breaking up of the fleets fishing would 

 ble, more time is spent by the fleet in hunting up the macfc 

 ing schools that will bite than in the catching 



6. Can you give a statement of the kinds and quautil 

 annually off the coast of your State from the year L8M to 18.1, 

 If you can do this please do so ; and if not, please state 

 mation can be procured. 



7. If you are able to do so, will you state the amount and value o 



