AWARD OF TUE FISHERY COMMISSION. 3Q71 



Araericau Shore. The value of the Menhaden Fishery i> fro u 30) to 

 500 thousand dollars at Gloucester 



20. Please state as to each class of fisheries carried on from your Slate 

 or district, the cost of fitting out, equipping, furnishing and niaiinin" a 

 vessel for carrying it on, estimating it by the average length of the 

 cruise. State, as far as possible, in detail theelements which go to link.- 

 up the cost of taking and delivering a full cargo and of returning to th 

 home port, 83000.00 for a season to the Hay including |{.,j tt H.rr.-U 

 Salt, Insurance, Provisions and the Wear & fear. 



21. When you have fully answered question 20, please answer the nine 

 questions as to vessels fitted out, equipped, furnished, and manned front 

 the Dominion of Canada, including Prince Edward Inland, HO far asvou 

 are able to do so. If you state that there is any difference, between 'the 

 cost of the Canadian and the cost of the American vessel in the.s re- 

 spects, explain what the difference is, and the reason for it. Cost of 

 American Vessels 8100.00 per ton rigged. Cost of British Vessels from 

 40 to 00. Cost of running American Vessels per year from .'{ to * IOOO.IMI. 

 Crew's time 12 Men each one year 83000.00. Canadian Vessels are pro- 

 visioned much cheaper than the Americans, their men living principally 

 on fish and Potatoes ours on the best the Market atlords 



22. Are you acquainted, and for how long, and in what capacity, with 

 the fisheries on the coasts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, (j tie I tec, or 

 Prince Edward Island, or with either, and if either, with which of tueae 

 fisheries ? All of them. 



23. What kind offish frequent the waters of those coasts which ;re to 

 be thrown open to American fishermen under the provisions of the Treaty 

 of Washington ? The mackerel is the only available Fish to be caught 

 by American Vessels. 



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

 1854 to 1872 inclusive) of the fisheries which are so to le thrown OJH-U to 

 American fishermen ; also the amount and the annual value of the catch 

 in the adjacent waters which are more than three miles distant Irom 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 ? The Fisherman do not catch any Bait them- 

 selves. They buy all from the Shore Fisherman. 



20. Do not the^American fishermen purchase supplies in the ports of 

 the Dominion of Canada, including bait, ice, salt, barrels, provisions, 

 aiid various articles for the use of the men engaged in the fisheries 

 so, in what ports, and to what extent ? And, if that is the ea.so, i* 

 not an advantage to the ports of the Dominion to have the I 

 sels of the United States in their neighborhood during the II 

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

 advantage. American Vessels engaged both in the 1 

 Fisheries off the Dominion Coast expend 8l>oo.oo to * 

 Supplies and Befitting amounting to about $IOII.IMM 

 of the Inhabitants of the Shores of the Provinces hten 

 the American Fisherman for their Living. 



27. Have you any knowledge of how many United 

 sels yearly engage in the fisheries off the Atlantic coasts of 

 North American Provinces, (excluding Newfoundland,) both w 

 within the three-mile limit? If so, state how many vow 

 gaged, what is the value of their tonnage, what is the mini 

 employed annually on such vessels, what sorts of lish are 

 what is the annual value of all the fish so caught, and what is the pro- 



