3084 AWARD OP THE FISHERY COMMISSION. 



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 Answer 

 same as Question 29 



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

 descriptions which are annually shipped to the United States ? Cant 

 say. 



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. Fat mackerel find a ready and about the only market in 

 the U. S. 



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 under the provisions of the Treaty of Washington, please state them 

 annually, and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. Statistics will 

 show you the whole thing, we should think $250,000 was about right 

 And importations would more than dowble up by free markets. 



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

 fish and fish-oil imported from the United States, which are to be made 

 tree under the provisions of the said Treaty, please state them annually, 

 and by classes, from 1854 to 1872, inclusive. Dont know 



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. 

 Our impression in relation to fishing inside the three mile limit is simply 

 this. It will be a detriment instead of a benifit. One reason why it 

 will be so is that our vessels would be likely to lie in the harbors of 

 Port Hood, and along their coast, when they ought to be out on the fish- 

 ing ground. To take fish inside the three mile limit is of no value to 

 the American fishermen. It is only when our fishermen are taking fish, 

 say from 4 to 5 miles from the land, of being bored to death by cutters, 

 sent out of their harbors when they seek them for shelter from the 

 storms which frequent that coast, of not being permitted to buy Any- 

 thing except wood and water, and hardly that that this whole trouble 

 lies. Our fishermen only want protection in this matter, and the mack- 

 erel they would take inside the three mile mile line, we would stake our 

 reputation, would not much more than pay for the Bait they used. 



Attest to the foregoing. 



GEO FKIEND & CO. 



STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS 



COUNTY OF ESSEX s. s. 



GLOUCESTER June 21st 1873 



Then personally appeared John J. Somes and for himself and the other 

 members of the firm of Geo. Friend & Co. made oath that the foregoing 

 statements subscribed in the firm's name are true Before me 

 (Seal.) DAVID W. LOW 



Notary Public 



