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portion, or probable proportion, in your judgment, of the amount of 

 such catch taken within three miles of the British coast, and of the 

 amount taken outside of the three-mile limit ? About 400 Vessels were 

 engaged in these Fisheries at the time of the Resprocity. At present 

 under the restricted Policy many more American Vessels pursue the 

 Deep Sea Fisheries for Cod-fish Halibut since the introduction of Ice 

 for the preservation of Fish this business has been more profitable as 

 the Fish are sold fresh. Vessels are worth from $60.00 to $70.00 per 

 ton. The fish taken average about 2% million dollars. In the most 

 favorable season about 8100 000 00 bbls are taken in the Bay of St 

 Lawrence less than ith of these are taken within 3 mile of the Shore. 

 This is the entire and only fishery used by Americans. 



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 

 consist! Any actual profit on the Fishing Business never had any ex- 

 istauce our Vessels have caught more Mackerel when entirely excluded 

 from the Inshore Limit, 



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 ? No We always had the right although deprived of it, 

 to land Fish or other merchandise in Bond to be transshipped to the U. 

 S. In this as in all others Our Government have not protected us. 



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 f 

 Vastly more to the Provinces in every particular 



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

 descriptions which are annually shipped to the United States ? 



32. For all No. 1 and No. 2 mackerel, for the larger part of the fat 

 herring, and for all No. 1 salmon, does not the United States afford the 

 only market ? Most certainly Fat Mackerel shipped to warm Climates 

 would have nothing left but the Bones before they were sold. 



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 tinder the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, please 

 state them annually, and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive, liefer 

 to the Treasury Reports. 



34. If you know what amount of duties is annually paid in Canada, 

 on fish and fi.sh-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. 



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. 

 The simple Privilege of fishing within the In-shore limits of the Domin- 

 ion has under any Circumstances a very small value. The total miscon- 

 ception of the value and profits of the Fishing business held by Parties 

 not practically interested has given an assumed value to the fish while 

 in the Water, The investments in the Fishing business, including Ves- 



